More patients die from receiving the wrong blood than from any other transfusion error. Sheer carelessness and overworked hospital staff are often the culprits. Transfusion experts estimate that as
Vaccines seem to have become as much a terror as the diseases they prevent. On March 3, less than half of the targeted 46 lakh children under 5 years turned up for anti polio doses in Assam. Just as
If there is a patch of forest in Karnataka that still seems untouched by man, it is Bhadra. Located in the Western Ghats, a two hour drive from Chickamagalur, Bhadra has more than 250 species of
A small study published late last year by researchers at Wesleyan University in Middletown and Columbia University in New York found that an hour long bath of bright light worked as well as
The 15-m stretch of the Chalior once again teems with fishermen, women scooping up shell fish and labourers extracting sand. The river flowing through Kozhikode and Malappuram was considered the most
Young children walked on a beach of a different texture when more than 50 tonnes of crayfish swam out of the sea due to the red tide at Elands Bay, north of Cape Town. Officials are calling it an
Dr. Tejal Desai, 29, assistant professor of bioengineering at Boston University, who has initiated biological micro electromechanical systems (MEMS), has done what researchers were only dreaming
The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology has set up the laboratory for conservation of endangered species near the Nehru Zoological Park, in Andhra Pradesh. The laboratory is to conduct research
According to the home ministry, Lodhas are one of the 52 primitive tribes facing extinction. While the 1991 census put Lodha numbers at 68,000, a more recent survey put their figure at 46,669. They
