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New Procedure Paves Way for Eunuchs to Choose a Gender and Conceive

...ir liking and some can even give birth to babies - thanks //to a special procedure developed at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here. After proper diagnosis, some 1,100 patients have already given proper gender identities as males or females and all of them are leading a normal life, do...

Rainwater to Receive a Fillip in India

...o meet the increasing demand for water everywhere, thanks to rapid urbanization, percolation of rain water into the sub-soil has decreased drastically. Consequently recharging of ground water too has diminished. The groundwater table is below eight metres below the surface in many places in and around the...

Campaign for Safe Drinking Water in India, Nepal

...pal of which 75,000 children will benefit directly thanks to the RWH systems in schools. "And since we will be working in association with local NGOs and the people, it will open up employment opportunities as well," Singh said. He also added that the system adopted is cost effective. Source-IANS/L...

Researchers Identify New Genetic Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes

... in common diseases, such as type 2 diabetes. Now, thanks to the tools and technologies generated by the sequencing of the human genome and subsequent mapping of common human genetic variations, we finally are making significant progress," said NHGRI Director Collins, who led the NIH component of the Human ...

Global Warming 55 Million Years Ago Too, Thanks to Fossil Fuels

...palm trees lived in the Arctic. It all happened thanks to a giant belch of methane from the ocean, researchers have always thought. Eight years ago two scientists had reported at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union that a sediment core drilled off Florida supported the theory of ancient global ...

Scientists Predict Bleak Future For Life

...r may win out over radiation in the distant future thanks to dark energy, but the odd force, as-yet unobserved directly, overall paints a bleak and lonely picture for life as we know it, opine the scientists. "This is kind of one little small saving grace that we've stumbled across," Scherrer says of matt...

Stem Cell Treatment Offers Hope for Paralysis Patients

...half of the body could get a second lease of life, thanks to a path breaking stem cell treatment being offered by a hospital here. The Lifeline Multi-Speciality Hospital (LMSH) has nearly perfected the art of making paraplegics walk again and managed to instill many of them with the confidence to lead a n...

New Treatment Could Enable Even Older Women to Conceive

...e generally thought to be past child-bearing stage thanks to a new treatment that is expected to come up in the next decade or so. Scientists have found a protein that they believe can be developed into a pill or an injection to extend the life of the eggs in the ovary. This could lead to a fertility rev...

Village Health Centres to the Rescue of Infants

...ight months old now, did not suffer the same fate, thanks to the Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses (IMNCI). Suryamani had by then attended a training course and Padmavati had been to several meetings of mothers, which helped them come out of the trauma of losing a child. Suryam...

Cuba is Exporting Healthcare Now

...hey introduce preventative health practices. And thanks to its pro-active role on the healthcare front, rising to the occasion whenever disaster strikes any region, even otherwise offering training and other assistance to countries requiring them, Castros Cuba is generating goodwill all round, including i...

Young Indians Say Cheers to White Spirits

...a and gin is fast catching up in the subcontinent, thanks to the changing profile of drinkers, especially in the age group of 25-35 years. "Changing lifestyle, growing consumerism, increasing purchasing power and the preference to taste something new or different are making young Indians take to social dr...

Revolutionary Breakthrough in Breast Cancer Detection

...ticity imaging are currently underway. Doctors say thanks to this new technology the number of biopsies being performed may be reduced by 50 to 70%, greatly relieving patients of the stress and trauma of enduring invasive and unnecessary procedures....

Cyclists to Ride for a Cause: To Create Awareness on AIDS

...s. Many local residents show support with signs of thanks that invoke memories of loved ones lost to AIDS. Organizers said they will make awareness and prevention materials available to local groups and provide HIV rapid-test services at selected sites along the route. In addition to being a momentous phy...

How to Cope With Side Effects from Pelvic Radiotherapy

...e effects, now have a new free resource to turn to thanks to Cancerbackup and Cancer Research UK. The leading cancer charities have produced the two booklets, one for men and one for women, which could help the 12,000 patients in the UK who have pelvic radiotherapy each year. The booklets are comprehens...

New Wireless System Developed to Detect Esophageal Reflux

...ything in their throat when the device is inserted thanks to a special plastic material used. The RFID system is the next step in a growing effort to develop less invasive wireless technologies for gastrointestinal diseases. Those include the PillCam, a small pill-sized wireless camera that takes photos a...

Delivering the Green Message to Children

... years later, she remains committed to the cause - thanks to her school that helped her imbibe eco-friendly values. "I am not an environmentalist, but I am careful that I don't harm the creation in any way," says Gulati, who studied in the Carmel Convent here and graduated from Delhi University last year...

Blue Moon at Midnight from June 1

...rd full Moon should be called a "Blue Moon." But thanks to a couple of misinterpretations of this arcane rule, first by a writer in a 1946 issue of Sky and Telescope magazine, and much later, in 1980 in a syndicated radio program, it now appears that the second full Moon in a month is the one that's now p...

Domestic Violence in Australia Leads to Number of Suicides

... the leading cause of death and disabling illness, thanks to success in tackling cardiovascular disease. Tobacco caused 7.6 per cent of the total burden, calculated as the years of healthy life lost either to premature death or illness and disability. Other preventable risks include high blood pressure, w...

Olive Stones to Depollute Industrial Sewage Water

...harged. That is the reason why they come together, thanks to ionic attraction. The process of biosorption can be a good substitute for other processes such as precipitation which are far more complex and expensive. The aforementioned researcher explains : Unlike these processes, the use of olive stones as...

Ganges River Dolphins Continue to Die in India

... now flows over two kilometres away from the city, thanks to silting and pollution. Researchers estimate the dolphin population across India to be a little over 1,500. Half of these are found in the Ganges in Bihar. The numbers have dropped drastically over the past decades. In the 1980s, the Gangetic del...

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