SHILLLONG: AIDS, one of the most dreaded diseases of the immune system has a high rate of occurrence in the world and has claimed the lives of many.

The Northeastern part of the country has recorded a staggering increase in the number of AIDS cases over the past few years. As per the available statistics, there are altogether 915 people in the State who have been tested HIV positive between 2002 and March 2012. The total number of people who underwent HIV testing at Integrated Counseling and Testing Centres (ICTCs) was 61,848 between the same period.

The AIDS Prevention and Control (APAC) project, managed by non-governmental organisation Voluntary Health Services, has transferred its AIDS-related projects to the Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control So

The government is all set to notify new pictorial warning for the tobacco products. A truncated torso with a diseased lung will replace the controversial blurred image that appeared to be resembling England footballer John Terry as pictorial warning on the cigarette packs.

According to a senior official in the health ministry, the image has been approved by the Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and is expected to be notified soon. The manufacturers, officials say, will be given six months time to make changes and come out with the new pictorial warning in their products.

The state has invoked the Epidemic Diseases Act in the textile town of Ichalkaranji in the wake of 12 Hepatitis E deaths and over 4,085 people infected in a month.

London: Scientists have used genome sequencing technology to control an outbreak of the superbug MRSA in a study that could point to faster and more efficient treatment of a range of diseases.

District panchayat president M.T. Thomas on Monday said that a major focus of his development agenda is setting up of waste treatment plants especially in the towns where waste disposal has become a major problem.

Talking to The Hindu , Mr. Thomas said that waste disposal has created a major problem in the environmentally-sensitive district. Projects will be drawn in cooperation with block and grama panchayats to treat and periodically collect both bio-degradable and non-bio degradable wastes.

As part of an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) initiative, new guidelines for the screening, diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer based on Indian socio-economic factors and disease pattern, are likely to be finalised here on June 20.

The sub-committee, headed by S.K. Srivatsava, chief radiation oncologist, Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital, will meet here to firm up the guidelines.Oncologists in the country generally follow guidelines issued by the US-based National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), an alliance of 21 of world’s leading cancer centres,

Operation Blossom Spring first taken up at Periye

Authorities started the process of detoxifying endosulfan stocked in three warehouses of the Plantation Corporation of Kerala here on Sunday. Operation Blossom Spring was first taken up at the warehouse at Periye, transferring 914.55 litres of the pesticide in six corroded barrels to high-density polyethylene barrels. A team of personnel from Hindustan Insecticide Ltd. and the Kerala State Pollution Control Board and medical experts did the highly delicate transfer.