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IDFC Private Equity Invests Rs 90 Crore In Manipal Health Systems

...-based Manipal Hospital. The Company aims to grow organic as well as inorganic way, which will get a boost after this investment. Manipal Health Systems is promoted by the Manipal Education and Medical Group (MEMG). The group operates an extensive network of healthcare and educational institutions in South...

Antibacterial Products Ensure Food Safety and Health

... of small slaughtering facilities. ? Bacteria in organic meat and poultry are likely more susceptible to an...icrobials because antimicrobials are prohibited in organic livestock production. ? The U.S. General Accounting Office has indicated that the elimination of a...

Dairy Intake Relates With Twins Birth – Research Find

...ns. Thus, Steinman advice women’s to have soy or organic milk, which was supposed to lack IGF. <br...

Experts Warn of Bird Flu Recurrence in Maharashtra

..., which speeds up aerobic composting of a tonne of organic waste. But the department did not show any interest." He too did not deny the possibility of another outbreak in the same regions. "Despite our advice, neither did the department clean the bird cages nor treat the virus with Vantocil B, which i...

New Multi-Modal Contrast Agents, A Boon For Medical Imaging

...rticle. ‘By that, we mean we put a ligand -- an organic substance, such as a monoclonal antibody -- on the outside that searches out in the bloodstream. Antibodies seek their antigens. So we target something to seek out a substance that's expressed by cells -- cancer cells, in my work. Cancer cells expres...

Air Pollution in Tamil Nadu is a Cause of Concern for Environmentalists

...oard to apply for central funds to set up volatile organic compounds (VOC) and sulphur gas monitoring stations in Manali, Mettur, Cuddalore, Tuticorin and other industrialised areas. The demand came after two samples from Tamil Nadu, out of 21 air samples taken from various parts of India, were found to b...

Association Asks People To Tell Their Senator To Vote against The "National Food Uniformity Act"

...e (rBGH) from being labelled. Authorities of the organic consumers association have stated that the senate would soon be voting on this bill. They explained that the "National Uniformity for Food Act,' would lower the standards on food safety by upstaging the state food safety laws that are not 'identical'...

Tamil Nadu Air Samples Among The Most Polluted In The Country

...ause it analyses air samples for 67 toxic volatile organic compounds and 20 sulphur compounds in the air.” None of these chemicals are being systematically monitored by the government and no standards exist for them in ambient air despite evidence that many of the reported chemicals exert severe health effec...

Lakhs of Indians Exposed to High Levels of Poisonous Gases

...poisonous gases, including cancer-causing volatile organic compounds and sulphur fumes//, and the country lacks the mechanism to monitor or regulate these toxins, according to a report relased here today. Titled 'Smokescreen: Ambient Air Quality in India,' the report by the Chennai-based Community Environme...

Cancer Cause Not Yet Ascertained

...requency emissions, biological agents and volatile organic compounds have failed to establish any link as yet to the seven cases of brain tumor among workers at the RMIT University. Five of these seven cases were employees who had worked on the top floor of the Bourke Street block which has prompted the st...

Organic Farming May Increase The Output Of Apples In Himachal

...armers were urged by the experts to concentrate on organic farming in order to increase the output of the app...ate to raise awareness about the need for adopting organic farming. Apple is the main cash crop of Himachal Pradesh and, along with neighbouring Jammu and Ka...

Nanotechnology Could Revolutionize Cardiac Treatment

... The NLB particles are made of several engineered organic strands or chains whose ends cluster around a central point, creating a structure known as a micelle. Uhrich synthesized molecule chains with several different characteristics, such as attracting or repelling water or having a positive or negative ch...

The Multi-Faceted Chemical Benzene

...el of 138 ppb. That study was looking for volatile organic compounds in foods and appeared in a 2003 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Thus, the EWG and consumer advocates are concerned over the FDA’s apparent lack of concern for the public health. This brings into question the FDA’s c...

Ovary removal to lead to Dementia

...increase in dementia, Rocca said. Dementia is an organic mental disorder characterised by a general loss of intellectual abilities involving impairment of memory, judgment and abstract thinking as well as changes in personality....

Exiled Tibetans In India To Adopt Organic Farming

Tibetans in India is to take up organic farming according to the decision taken by the Tib...nt programme by 2007, $25 million will be spent on organic fertilisers,' said a spokesman of the Tibetan government led by the Dalai Lama. There are over 10...

Himachal Pradesh: Horse Dung To Be Converted Into Organic Fertilizer

...osal of horse dung at Kufri and converting it into organic fertiliser,' said Susheel Negi, the district magistrate of Shimla. 'We will make it mandatory for horse owners to attach carry bags to collect dung so that the roads are not littered with it,' he said. --Edited IANS...

Organic food loses its whole-grain image

...ave been unthinkable a few years ago. For decades organic food had the image of whole-grain muesli, rubbery ...er towns and cities of Europe today, you will find organic ice cream and free-range hot dog vendors. Almost every food product is now available as organic, sa...

Aluminum Salts In Underarm Deodorants Increase Risk Of Breast Cancer

...he skin present over the underarm. Until now, only organic chemicals (compounds that contain carbon and hydrogen) have been believed to modify the normal functioning of the hormone, estrogen or exert estrogen-like effects in the body. In view of the above possibility, more research is clearly indicated to ...

Reconsider Health Benefits of Organic Baby Foods, advices new study

In a recent study, organic baby foods seemed to score less in nutrition value...tial nutrients, // like iron and protein. Sales of organic baby food, is on the high, since three out of four babies are growing up on daily helpings of these ...

Go organic to be low on pesticide residues!

...act is to substitute normal diets of children with organic food items. The result was that concentration of p...ted most of the children's conventional diets with organic food items for five consecutive days. The children were then re-introduced to their normal foods and...

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