planet 1 1

Tag: "planet" at medical news

Drug Firm Offers to Donate Smallpox Vaccine

...tagious and often fatal illness was wiped from the planet more than 2 decades ago, but experts fear it could resurface in a biowarfare attack. The U.S. Health and Human Service Secretary Tommy Thompson said that initial tests were promising of the vaccine held in storage by Drug firm, Aventis Pasteur since...

Quality of lives of older people

...ears. Within 20 years, half the babies born on the planet can expect to live till they are 70. The physical, mental and economic needs// of our rapidly aging population will be known based on this study. In an attempt to answer some of these questions, scientists at Cambridge University, England, have been ...

Unhappy relationships could result in more than just heart breaks!

Relationships are the key to survival on planet earth. Every one of us knows and understands that happy relationships can make for happy living. But how many of us know that the continuous //tension of a distressed intimate relationship can raise blood pressure, continuously over a 24 hour period?...

Will Your Baby Grow Up To Be A Future Einstein ?

More than 360,000 babies are born everyday on the planet .For a smarter baby, experts say it's not all in the books ,emotional development // plays a big role in raising intelligent kids. Researchers say we need to realize that our emotions are the fuel that gives rise to social behavior but also to diffe...

Our Attitude To Food Costing Us A Fortune

...orally sound, and its wastage as the opposite, our planet and we all will end up the richer. ...

Manned Mars Mission May Become A Reality

... its Moon mission. This brings a manned mission to planet Mars closer to reality. // An electric field is used by ion engines to accelerate a beam of ions away from the spacecraft providing propulsion. Tests on a prototype at ESA’s Electric Propulsion Laboratory in the Netherlands have shown that the eng...

Exposure To Artificial Light Could Be Cancerous

...iladelphia, stated that humans have evolved on the planet without electric light over thousands of thousands of generations. Stating that the body is designed to be alert and awake during the daytime hours and to sleep at night he explained that now a days, people are increasingly following a 24/7 lifestyle...

'Young and their Reproductive Health' - Theme of World Population Day

...l be between 7.3 billion to 10.7 billion people on planet earth by the year 2050. Although population growth has eased world wide, 90% of the current growth is largely confined to developing countries where the needs of the people far outweigh the resources. These countries also have a huge unmet requir...

A Timely Reminder Of Devastating Health Impact Of Climate Change

...to protect the human health and environment of the planet for future generations. “The Stern Review encapsulates the human health concerns raised by the AMA in its Position Statement on Climate Change and Human Health,” Dr Haikerwal said. “Climate change will dramatically alter the patterns and rate of ...

Researchers explore medicine in space

...about 140 million miles away. 'A trip to the red planet would likely be a three-year endeavor for astronauts,' comments Seubert. French doctors recently performed the first surgery in weightless conditions, operating during an airplane flight designed to mimic weightlessness. However, only a local ane...

PM Stress the Need to Protect Health of Children

...issues concerning the well being of humans and our planet as a whole," he remarked. After the inauguration at the National Stadium, the GYM will move to Agra from Nov 15 to 18. On Nov 19, the meet will conclude in Delhi with the launch of the Youth for Health (Y4H) campaign, which will enable youth from p...

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

...illion. It involves vaccinating every child on the planet time and time again—and at this very moment it may be on the brink of success. But the stakes are unspeakably high: if the program fails, or misses a few infected children, or gives up in frustration at an apparently endless sequence of obstacles, th...

Ladakh was a Coastal Region Millions of Years Ago

...ome parts of Earth may disappear altogether as the planet continues to warm. And new types of climate could develop in other areas, it says. A team of researchers led by John W Williams, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, used computer models to estimate how clima...

Guinea Worm Disease Will Be Wiped Out Soon

... guinea worm disease is almost eradicated from the planet earth. //This disease which has been affecting people since ancient times could be exterminated in a couple of years from now. This was announced by the World Health Organization. Currently around 25,000 people in nine countries across the world a...

Australian City Fights Global Warming in a Unique Way

...s country is the driest inhabited continent on the planet and we face some of the worst aspects of global warming," he warned. Per capita this vast Australian continent is one of the world's largest producers of carbon dioxide and other gases that contribute to the warming of the earth's atmosphere. A lon...

Norwegian Glacier Shrinks and Marine Life Poisoned as the Globe Warms

...e Arctic is heating up faster than the rest of the planet because of global warming, threatening human livelihoods and species such as polar bears that depend on sea ice for hunting seals. They say dark sea water and land, once exposed, soaks up more heat than ice and snow. Glaciers are in retreat in many...

Climate Talks Reach Consensus in Bangkok

...Many climate experts claim the costs of saving the planet are miniscule compared with global warming's potential damages, but it is important that politicians also acknowledge this in the IPCC's third report of 2007. The Bangkok meeting has attracted 30 of the world's leading climate experts and more than...

Is Gemstone-therapy an Alternative to Treat Illness?

... of the horoscope that a patient is suggested what planet is actually affecting his/her health. Sidhartha ...n only tell when the disease rooted as well as the planet responsible for the ailment. An astrologer cannot do the direct treatment. He only pacifies the plan...

India Committed to Sustainable Development: PM

...k of future generations and the very future of the planet each time they "undertake an act of consumption". "The threat of climate change is real and unless we alter our lifestyles and pursue a sustainable model of development, our future will be at peril," he said. The prime minister has set up a commi...

World Environment Day (International Polar Year)

...time now. Needless to say, we, the people, of this planet earth, are to be blamed. Global warming is threa... only this earth to live on; let's bequeath a good planet to our children-we owe it to them! Summing it up is this quote from Bill Clintons speech at a Uni...

1 2