The sudden outbreak of acute gastro-enteriris in Dindigul district and a steady arrival of patients found the Batlagundu Government Hospital struggling to cope with the situation, due to its

Efforts of the public sector, private industry and grass-roots activism, like in the U.S., is needed to ensure that bio-medical wastes are handled and disposed of safety in an environment-friendly

A first step in an ambitious programme to remove the encroachment along the city waterways has begun with the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) taking up a formal survey of the population

The Centre for Animal Health Studies has developed vaccines for leptospirosis and black quarter diseases which afflict domestic cattle. The Leprospira vaccine would help in prevention and control of

Indian farmers are using as much as 15,000 litres of water to produce one kg of rice, when the maximum requirement is only 4,000 litres, Dr. A. Abdul Kareem, Vice-Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Agriculture

Research was on to develop a vaccine to prevent the dreaded killer disease, AIDS, at the National level, according to Mr. Allaudin, Special Secretary to the Tamil Nadu Government. The research, at

A rare and endemic avian species has been sighted by a wildlife photographer in Tamil Nadu. The bird, Ceylon Frogmouth, whose presence has not been recorded in the State in the past has been found by

A tripartite committee comprising industrialists, farmers and officials should be constituted to look into complaints regarding effluent pollution, according to the Tamil Nadu unit of the INTUC. A

interim plan mooted:An interim arrangement for disposal of hospital waste has been put forth by the Federation of Medical and Dental Associations of Tamil Nadu, even as the report of the Dr. Santappa

It has been projected that a commercial AIDS vaccine may be available from the year 2007, the Madras University Vice-Chancellor, Prof. P. T. Manoharan, said today.Quoting studies on STD/HIV conducted