Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
A NEW technique known as minimally invasive direct coronary bypass surgery has been successfully tested last month at Lenox Hill hospital in Manhattan, us. Valavanur A Subramanian performed the delicate surgery on the heart as it continued to beat, instead of putting the patient on a heart-lung machine. This was …
Although alcohol consumption has lately been linked to reduced heart problems, researchers at the London-based Royal Colleges of Physicians, Psychiatrists and General Practitioners, have reaffirmed previous "safe limits" of alcohol intake. Reportedly, high alcohol consumption leads to high death rates from blood vessel rupture, even as it lowers mortalitN from …
BYPASS surgery without opening the front of the chest or using a heart-lung machine was conducted at the Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre in Delhi. Naresh Trehan, the Centre's executive director, performed the opera tions on two patients - the f irst ever in India. The technique is known …
THERE is good news for heart patients requiring bypass surgery on the aorta, the main artery which carries oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body. British researchers have recently developed a technique that uses plastic tubes, called catheters, to insert synthetic grafts into the blood vessel, …
VITAMINS are the key to a healthy heart: this theory -- once considered bunkum by heart specialists -- has again gained widespread currency. Of major interest to medical circles at the moment is folic acid, a vitamin of the b group. How folic acid works on the heart is explained …
A FUNGUS, Aspergillus fumigatus, which can kill people with damaged immune systems, has provided an important weapon for fighting against coronary heart disease (CHD), according to researchers from Tokyo's Kitasato University. They found that a previously unknown group of compounds produced by this fungus can block an enzyme responsible for …
Angina can actually reduce the chances of death through heart attacks, concluded a free heart camp in Delhi recenty. Angina causes severe pain because of oxygen deficiency in the heart. Over years, serial anginal chest pain may open alternate channels for increasing blood supply to the heart, preventing a major …
HE HAD jet black hair when he quit the Oval Office 12 years ago, at unnerving variance with the network of age-lines on his face, wattles, dewlaps and all. But even then, his brain had already kicked off into the bottomless abyss of Alzheimer's disease. "I now begin the journey …
Parkinson's disease affects millions of old people. The symptoms include progressive tremor, rigidity of limbs and difficulty in body coordination. The cause of Parkinson's is unknown, the pathology poorly understood. The main physiological change is the depletion of the neurotransmitter -- a chemical that helps transmit nerve impulses -- dopamine. …
Coronary Heart Diseases (CHD) such as atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, angina pectoris and strokes, are the leading cause of death among elderly persons. Eighty per cent of all deaths due to CHD occur in persons over 65. Most common forms of CHD, such as atherosclerosis, are caused by structural and functional …
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a mental disorder resulting from brain degeneration. It affects almost 1 in 10 individuals over the age of 65. The disease is characterised by confusion, personality and behavioural changes, impaired judgement and difficulty in following words and directions. Eventually, it robs its victims of volition. Identified …
Temperature changes affect the susceptibility of the aged to death from coronary artery disease, brain infarctioh (blood clot) and cerebra4 haemorrhage, suggests a I I -year study by Thai @cientists (Lancet Vol 345, No 8946). Researchers led by WenHarn Pan ofthe Institute of Biomedical Sciences of Academia Sinica, Taipei, found …
TILL a few years ago, all abdominal surgeries left the patient with a long scar. But thanks to laparoscopy -- a surgical technique that obviates the need to cut open the abdomen -- most patients can now leave the operating table without carrying the ugly legacy of the surgeon's scalpel. …
PEOPLE suffering from coronary heart disease (CHD) can now hope for better survival chances, thanks to a new drug called "simvastatin" which can bring down the level of blood cholesterol. This drug succeeded in a largescale clinical trial conducted by a Scandinavian team of researchers (The Lancet, Vol 344, No …
Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences has become the country's first hospital to launch a new technique to detect artherosclerosis -- a disease of the blood vessels caused by cholesterol deposition within the arteries. Called the Intra Vascular Ultra Sound (IVUS), the new technique is currently being demonstrated by …
Heart surgeon K M Cherian has become the first doctor in India to perform heart surgery using a new technique known as trans-myocardial revascularisation (TMR). Performed previously only in the US, TMR reduces the recovery time for heart surgery and prevents an excessive loss of blood, obviating the need for …
A recurring throat infection with the streptococci bacteria can cause rheumatic heart disease. Now, scientist Sumalee Prukksakorn at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research and colleagues have identified a small portion of a protein, dubbed the M protein, from the bacteria, which could be used as a vaccine (The Lancet, …
RESEARCH at Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Alims) has borne oud the belief that moderate alcohol cosumption can protect people from cornary heart diseases (CHD). The studw reveals that moderate doses of alcow increase the level of proteins called higb density lipoproteins (Hf)LS) that we good for the …
Chemists have confirmed that the Mediterranean cuisine's 2 most important ingredients - garlic and red wine - apparently have a beneficial effect on the heart (Science, Vol 265, No 5178). Andrew Waterhouse of the University of California, Davis, has isolated from red wine a chemical called catechin that is believed …
The Kerala coast, famed for its beaches, is home to a rare form of heart disease called endo-myocardial fibrosis (EMF). And scientists who conducted a 10-year-long study on EMF now blame the disease on a mineral called monazite in the fine, white sands of Kerala. EMF belongs to a group …
