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Polio can be eradicated in India: Health Experts

...in India, almost one-third of polio cases reported globally happen to be from India. According to the experts in UK, the rising numbers of cases of polio in India are due to improper sanitation and congestion of living space. These obstacles make it contusive for the rapid spread of the virus making the va...

Indian American have Genetically Engineered Edible Cottonseed

...e of nutrition. // Cotton fibre continues to be a globally vital textile crop. The leftover cottonseeds are a high source of protein, but the presence of the toxic chemical gossypol makes them unfit for human consumption. To remove gossypol from cottonseeds, Keerti Rathore and colleagues from the Institute...

Global Polio Eradication: A Campaign to Vaccinate Every Child on the Planet

... Despite goals to eradicate the incurable disease globally by 2000 and then 2005, health officials continue to go village to village, in countries such as Nigeria, India and Afghanistan—and just this week in Iraq—to chase the infectious disease out of existence. Tim Brookes, author of The End of Polio? Beh...

More then Four Million New HIV Infections in 2006: UNAIDS

...c Update released in Geneva Tuesday estimates that globally 39.5 million people are living with HIV. Of these, about 8.6 million are in Asia, including the 960,000 people who became newly infected in the past year. India is estimated to have around 5.2 million HIV infected cases, the second largest after So...

Unfolded Proteins May Protect Cells from Dying

... is a worthwhile therapeutic strategy, blocking it globally is not. Scientists still need to understand the specific proteins involved to create the most effective therapy. 'When it comes to avoiding cancer or defense against virally infected cells, cell death is a good thing,' says Steller. 'But when cells...

Avian Flu Unlikely to Spread Through Water Systems

...o H5N1, which has been lethal to millions of birds globally and more than half of the almost 200 infected people mostly through handling infected birds, since 2003. Researchers and officials are concerned that if H5N1 mutates to transmit easily between people, a deadly global pandemic could occur. "It is un...

Ramifications of Widespread Use of Tamiflu

...reds of millions of courses that would be consumed globally during a pandemic. The authors warn that, with the release of the uniquely structured, biochemically resistant OC antiviral into river water, "the range of OC concentrations predicted . . . will have uncharacterized ecotoxicological consequences." ...

WHO's New Chief Very Optimistic

...eaths from measles have been reduced by 60 percent globally and in Africa by 75 percent in the past five years. Dr. Chan attributed the success to committed health officials. Improving health conditions in Africa would serve as a parameter in judging the accomplishment of WHO and this would mean improving t...

Teens More Likely to Become Victims of Online Harassments

...p parents assess their children's online behaviors globally in addition to focusing on specific types of behaviors." Source-Eurekalert SRI...

Flood of Fake Drugs Must Be Stopped, Warns UN

...t is estimated to be worth a hefty $75bn (€57.3bn) globally by 2010. The difficulty to monitor the spread of fake drugs is that counterfeit medicines are easy to manufacture – they look like genuine drugs in packaging and labelling. According to the INCB report, another problem is the wide availability of...

Diagnosis Of Sjogren's Syndrome Possible Using Saliva

...roteomics and genomics technologies, they searched globally for markers in saliva from SS patients and healthy people, and found that saliva, especially whole saliva (that is, the combined saliva in the mouth, vs. saliva from the individual salivary glands), is informative for detecting patients with pSS. ...

Indian Parliamentarians Join to Fight Against TB

...ians and hope that their efforts would help people globally in general and Indians in particular in the fight against TB," said Herbert, co-chair of the British Parliamentary Group on Global TB. Jagannath said that they would also suggest that provisions should be made so that willing MPs can spend a port...

Magic of Motherhood Through Egg Donation

...ary display. There is a dearth of human eggs globally for reproductive purposes and embryonic stem cell research. In India, fertility medicine is a lucrative enterprise with almost all cities boasting of several ART centers. With severe regulations crippling the availability of human eggs in the west, ...

Exports Of Herbal & Dietary Products Has Huge Potential

...asized that the growing demand for herbal products globally was putting unsustainable demand on forests leading to depletion of the plants Bio diversity that threatened the very survival of a number of medicinal plants species. She said that there during the last 5-6 years, the National Medicinal Plants Boa...

Polio Cases In The Country

... of 17th April 2007, total cases of Polio reported globally are 111 out of which 31 cases are from India and 54 are from Nigeria. The number of polio cases reported// during the last three years, State wise can be seen at Annexure-I. To control the circulation of wild polio virus following action are being...

Indonesia's Bird Flu Death Toll Touches 80

...nd consumed some ill fowl. Most bird flu victims globally have had direct or indirect contact with sick birds, but scientists fear the virus could mutate into a form that is easily transmissible among humans, sparking a global pandemic that could kill millions. The man's death brings the toll in Indonesia...

Muslim Nations Urged To Address Health Needs

...ization data shows that there have been 190 deaths globally from the H5N1 bird flu virus since late 2003. Indonesia has recorded 79 human deaths from bird flu, the world's highest, Egypt 15 and Turkey four. The OIC nations, which range from the wealthy oil-rich Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to Somalia and Afghanis...

The Dreaded Disease Tuberculosis Raises Its Ugly Head

...oo widespread to quarantine. We need to combat it globally before it becomes pandemic. Last week, the WHO asked governments worldwide to pay up the $3 billion a year needed to fund existing TB programs and an additional $1 billion a year to combat XDR TB. In the U.S., Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and others...

Health Ministers Meeting on Polio Eradication Today

...April 17. A total of 111 polio cases were reported globally this year till April 17, out of which 54 cases were reported from Nigeria, while India registered 31 cases. The polio drive has been intensified following suggestions of the India Expert Advisory Group on Polio in December 2006. The ministry pla...

Nutrient-rich Dairy Beverages an Emerging Market

...es, the emerging health-conscious newer generation globally is paving the way for introduction of varieties of weight-reducing, low-cholesterol, high-fibre, nutrient-rich food products. In recent times, the demand for these products has increased by leaps and bounds! A report, published recently in the Aust...

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