This document is the second in a series of global reports describing progress towards the 2030 targets set in Ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Development Goals: a road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030. It describes a wide range of activities, accomplishments and challenges across the portfolio of …
European foulbrood disease is a broad disease in honey bees caused by a bacterium, Melissococcus plutonius. By now, various herbal and chemical drugs have been tried to control it. In the present study, the effects of different organic extracts of three different bryophytes and a standard drug (positive control) have …
GUWAHATI: The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) today held a protest programme in front of the Directorate of Health Services at Hengerabari in the city over alleged failure of the authorities to curb the menace of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in the State. KMSS activists from all over the State took …
KOCHI: Scientists here have developed a genetically-engineered antigen to diagnose chikungunya with greater accuracy. The scientists, from the SCMS Biotechnology Centre here, are confident that the antigen would make diagnosis of the disease more cost-effective, apart from giving accurate results. They are also just a whisker away from inventing chikungunya …
The Health Department will issue ‘Red Card' and ‘Blue Card' to the tribal people of Attappady Hills affected by sickle cell disease, a genetic blood disorder. Persons tested positive for the disease will be issued ‘Red Card,' while carriers will the issued ‘Blue Card.' The Health Department authorities said this …
South Korean scientists said on Wednesday they have created a glowing dog using a cloning technique that could help find cures for human diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, Yonhap news agency reported. A research team from Seoul National University (SNU) said the genetically modified female beagle, named Tegon and …
Worm infestations, food parasites, Chagas disease, sand fly-transmitted infections and other neglected tropical diseases usually found in Africa and Asia are turning up more often in Europe, according to a new study. The study, a compendium of dozens of case reports from 1999 to 2010, was published last month in …
Seventeen people died of AIDS in Bardiya district in the last three years. Five members of a family at Bhimmapur VDC-2 died of the syndrome last year. Chairman of Geruwa Rural Awareness Association (GRAA), a non-profit making organisation, Luxman Tharu said those to have died last year are Chakra Bahadur …
IL-15 receptor α (IL-15Rα)is a component ofthe heterotrimeric plasma membrane receptor for the pleiotropic cytokine IL-15. However, IL-15Rα is not merely an IL-15 receptor subunit, as mice lacking either IL-15 or IL-15Rα have unique phenotypes.IL-15 and IL-15Rα have been implicated in muscle phenotypes, but a role in muscle physiology has …
Vaccines against deadly diseases like polio, tuberculosis and hepatitis B have to be stored, transported and administered with abundant caution or else the results can be disastrous, as was demonstrated to a group of journalists this past week during a field trip to villages around Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh. The …
Sakleshpur (Hassan dist) : At a time when farmers often demand compensation for failed crops, Jai Maruthi Devaraj, a ryot of Jannapura in the taluk has set an example on how to reap rich benefits in farming. His three acre farm with dense banana plantation is hard to miss on …
CHENNAI: Fifty lakh people suffer from Hepatitis in Tamil Nadu, Minister for Health, Dr V S Vijay said here on Thursday. He was addressing a gathering on the occasion of World Hepatitis Day celebrations, organised at the Madras Medical College. “Hepatitis is dangerous than HIV, since the patient doesn’t feel …
District receives mobile veterinary laboratory Soil test card will be given to around 40,000 farmers in the district to enable them choose the type and the quantity of fertilizers needed to raise crops. All preventive measures will be taken to protect animals from seasonal diseases. The district has received a …
A massive demonstration was held in front of the Civil Station on Thursday demanding stringent action against those responsible for the dumping of waste from the comfort station of Koduvally panchayat into the Poonoorpuzha, which is the source of drinking water for thousands of families living in nearly 10 panchayats …
GUWAHATI: As a part of its global awareness initiative, the Northeast Digestive and Liver Foundation has started an aggressive campaign across the Northeast to combat the deadly virus of Hepatitis B. A team of specialists will be working towards spreading information about the deadly virus and educating people on how …
KOCHI: With the communicable diseases like malaria spreading in the district, the authorities with the Health Department are planning a slew of measures targeting the migrant labourers here. Though the cases of malaria have been on the rise in the district since 2000, the authorities are unable to put in …
The government will screen five crore people from across the country for hyper-tension and diabetes. Union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that these lifestyle diseases pose a huge health risk. Inaugurating a camp to screen slum-dwellers in Delhi for the lifestyle diseases, Mr Azad said,
Director of Health Services reviews fever situation The Health Department has directed its health supervisors to strengthen disease prevention and control activities at the field-level as viral fevers, including dengue and H1N1 cases, may go up as the monsoon intensifies. The Director of Health Services (DHS) convened a meeting on …
DIMAPUR: HIV prevalence rate in Nagaland has come down to 0.78 per cent since December 2010 from a prevalence rate of 1.27 per cent on October 2010 - a drop of 0.49 per cent. A major concern, however, is that sexual route of transmission has gone up to 89 per …
RESEARCH suggests that habitat loss, thought to be a major threat to amphibians across the world, might in some cases be protecting them from a deadly fungus. Amphibian species, which include frogs, toads and salamanders, have dwindled at an alarming rate since 1980s; a third of the world’s amphibian species …
