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 …
Alcohol is responsible for a liver disorder that affects around one in four people in developed countries. Though the causes are not clear, but livers of alcoholics have identical symptoms. Ann Mae Diehl of the Johns Hopkins University, USA, believes that food stays in the intestines of obese people longer …
bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( bse ) or mad cow disease, which has continued to trouble many European nations, is affecting India as well. Diabetic children are bearing the brunt of the disease as they have to pay four times more for genetically-engineered human insulin, which is the only alternative available …
almost a decade after the first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( bse ) or mad cow disease was detected in Britain in 1989, the French government was once again forced to ban meat and bone-meal in all animal feed as a precaution against the disease. The disease, which was …
Leptospirosis, a bacterial disease, has killed 42 people of 389 cases reported in different parts of the country. The disease has reached epidemic proportions in many parts of Mumbai, Gujarat and Delhi. "We are not geared up for disaster management,' says Vinay Aggarwal, honorary joint secretary, Indian Medical Association. With …
For long, potted plants have been touted as a solution to the sick building syndrome, a range of symptoms that leaves people feeling tired and irritable but with no specific illness. But, Peter Dingle of Australia's Murdoch University thinks it is a "great urban myth'. He set up five cabins …
there are certain ailments that are not universal and some that invariably strike irrespective of whether it is a man or a woman, working, self-employed or even a housewife. Back pain is one such complaint that is increasingly topping the list of serious urban health problems. There is enough epidemiological …
one is a notorious human pathogen, the other a highly successful pesticide. But just a few mobile dna genes separate them. Lars Andrup of the National Institute of Occupational Health in Copenhagen, Denmark has identified a novel gene-swapping system that enables Bacillus thuringiensis ( Bt ) to exchange an unusually …
An unknown tick species may be responsible for a variant of Lyme disease that has not been detected by standard tests so far. Michael Felz and his colleagues at the Medical College in Georgia in Augusta, USA, examined 23 patients suffering from eye rash that is characteristic of the disease. …
britain has agreed to clearly label its beef exports to other European countries to leave no doubt for consumers over where they originated, an European Commission (ec) spokesperson said recently. The spokesperson also said that under the agreement, European consumers would see a label on British beef
An outbreak of Escherichia coli (E coli) bacteria has affected around 750 people in New York. The number may exceed 1,000, says Antonia Novello, New York's health commissioner. Experts feel this outbreak could be much worse than the one in 1993, when 700 people were affected, four of whom died. …
all living creatures are the products of evolution by natural selection. In this selection, new and randomly occurring variations, which first come about on account of a gene's mutation, are tested in living organisms in terms of their effects on living and raising children. This is measured as an individual's …
the Turkish government has placed the town of Golcuk in quarantine to guard against the spread of diseases following the devastating earthquake in the second week of August. The naval base in the town was also sealed. Only those with special passes were allowed to travel in or out of …
During an intense heat wave in July 1995 in Chicago, USA, 726 people died during a four-day period due to heat stress. Heat stress is a condition in which the body is unable to adjust to the external environment because it does not have enough water to cool itself through …
ian Wilmut, the scientist who created Dolly, the world's first mammal cloned from an adult cell has struck a million-dollar deal with a us company to work on human cloning. According to a report in the London Daily Telegraph , Wilmut had agreed to help develop techniques to clone a …
In 1955, an unusual disease broke out among the people living on the banks of Jinzu river in Japan called Itai Itai ( itai means "ouch'). It weakened bones to such an extent that even the stress of coughing could cause fractures. There were reports of reduced stature, bow-leggedness, and …
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) or sexually transmitted infections (STIs), have been recognised as a major public-health problem for a number of years. In 1912, Prince Morrow, chair of the US committee looking into the problem of venereal diseases, was quoted as saying "it is a conservative estimate that fully one-eighth …
Lead poisoning in children is causing a storm in New York. A large number of cases seeking action against lead poisoning are pending in courts. Lead is present in numerous forms in the environment of most cities of the world. Children are most susceptible to its ill effects as it …
studies on rheumatoid arthritis indicate that treatment with strong drugs may work better than the gradual approach to the crippling disease. Rheumatoid arthritis is an auto-immune disease, which is caused when the body's immune system turns against the tissue in the joints . Doctors in Belgium and Holland say that …
