South Sudan: UN health agency ramps up efforts to tackle cholera outbreak
Aug 14, 2015, at 03:29 pm
New York, Aug 14 (IBNS) As the battle against cholera outbreak continues in South Sudan, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners are boosting assistance to help children and the most vulnerable prevent and reduce the spread of further cases.
At Security Council, top UN health officials spotlight role of emergency preparedness in Ebola fight
Aug 14, 2015, at 03:13 pm
New York, Aug 14 (IBNS) The deadly Ebola outbreak which ravaged West Africa for more than a year has demonstrated the increasing importance of emergency preparedness both in Africa and across the world, said two senior United Nations health officials who noted that if the current intense focus on case detection and contact tracing is maintained, the virus could be "soundly defeated" by year's end.
Consistent efforts made to tackle air pollution: Govt
Aug 14, 2015, at 04:03 am
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IBNS): The Government has been making consistent efforts to address the issue of air pollution in Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR), an official statement said.
Aug 13, 2015, at 09:11 pm
Kolkata, August 13 (IBNS): Narayana Health Network on Wednesday announced the launch of NH Cancer Institute at Narayana Superspeciality Hospital in Kolkata.
BASE experiment at CERN compares protons and antiprotons with high precision
Aug 13, 2015, at 04:48 am
Geneva, Aug 12 (IBNS) In a paper published on Wednesday in Nature, the Baryon Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator (AD), reports the most precise comparison of the charge-to-mass ratio of the proton to that of its antimatter equivalent, the antiproton.
Priyanka Chopra emphasizes on stepping up the fight against adolescent anaemia
Aug 13, 2015, at 04:40 am
Kolkata, Aug 12 (IBNS) UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra on Wednesday emphasised the importance of stepping up the fight against adolescent anaemia, regarded as a major health problem among adolescents in developing countries including India.
Oxymoronic Black Hole provides clues to growth
Aug 12, 2015, at 05:44 am
California, Aug 11 (IBNS) Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the 6.5-meter Clay Telescope in Chile have identified the smallest supermassive black hole ever detected in the center of a galaxy.
New breath test shows biomarker for early-stage liver disease diagnosis
Aug 12, 2015, at 02:06 am
London, Aug 11 (IBNS) A natural compound called limonene, which is found in oranges and lemons, could be indicative in early-stage diagnosis of liver disease, according to research published in the journal EBioMedicine by researchers in the Molecular Physics Group at the University of Birmingham, UK.
20,000 kgs of Maggi instant noodles seized in Lucknow
Aug 11, 2015, at 06:43 pm
Lucknow, Aug 11 (IBNS) The Uttar Pradesh Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has seized 20,000 kgs of the two minute noodles from a Nestle warehouse in Lucknow.
Major landslide at Mumbai-Pune Expressway
Aug 07, 2015, at 05:45 pm
Mumbai, Aug 7 (IBNS) A major landslide occurred at the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on Thursday night, reports said.
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"India is continuously improving its weather forecasting system"
Aug 06, 2015, at 09:23 pm
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IBNS): The Indian government on Thursday said the weather forecasting systems in the country are comparable to most of the countries in the world with 'respect to weather forecasting'.
Aug 06, 2015, at 07:52 pm
Delhi/Kolkata, Aug 6 (IBNS): World Vision India declared a category III, national office response on Thursday to assist 100,000 people in India deeply affected by the floods.
New study shows how complex bonobo communication is similar to that of human infants
Aug 05, 2015, at 03:29 am
London, Aug 4 (IBNS) Researchers at the University of Birmingham have found that wild bonobos, our closest living relatives in the primate world, communicate in a similar manner to human infants, using a high-pitched call type, or 'peep', that requires context to be understood.
Bengal Oncology Foundation hosts panel discussion in Kolkata
Aug 05, 2015, at 01:46 am
Kolkata, Aug 4 (IBNS) : While last week International-Oncology Society and American Psychosocial Oncology Society hosted World Congress on Psycho-Oncology 2015 in Washington, Bengal Oncology Foundation conducted a panel discussion on the same issue Tuesday evening at The Princeton Club.
Cloud burst damages houses in Leh
Aug 04, 2015, at 08:05 pm
Leh, Aug 4 (IBNS): A cloudburst hit Wanla village of Khalsi town in Leh district causing extensive damage to residential houses and sparking flash floods in the area, official said on Tuesday.
Depression over Jharkhand, Gangetic West Bengal , more rains predicted
Aug 02, 2015, at 11:02 pm
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IBNS) The Ministry of Earth Science on Sunday said depression, which was formed over Jharkhand and adjoining Gangetic West Bengal, has moved west-southwestwards and was centred over 'Gangetic West Bengal and adjoining Jharkhand about 70 km east-northeast of Ranchi'.
Cyclone Komen to cause heavy rainfall in WB, state on high alert
Jul 31, 2015, at 12:57 am
New Delhi, July 30 (IBNS): The Government on Thursday issued a high alert of heavy rains expected to lash the southern West Bengal due to a cyclone storm called 'Komen', which will make it landfall in Bangladesh.
WHO calls for strengthening malaria elimination strategy, says 3.2 billion people still at risk
Jul 30, 2015, at 12:56 am
Kolkata, July 29 (IBNS): The World Health Organization on Wednesday called for bolstering efforts for malaria control and elimination by targeting malarial parasites believed to be less fatal, but now causing high disease burden.
Health department and UNICEF organizes Diarrhea Control Fortnight in Budge Budge
Jul 29, 2015, at 04:22 am
Kolkata, July 28 (IBNS): The West Bengal health department, along with the UNICEF, launched an Intensified Diarrhea Control Fortnight (IDCF) at Budge Budge area in South 24-Parganas district on Monday.
Heavy rains warning issued by government
Jul 29, 2015, at 01:29 am
New Delhi, July 28 (IBNS) The Ministry of Earth Science on Tuesday said 'heavy to very heavy rainfall' at few places and 'isolated extremely heavy fall' over Gujarat region, Daman, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Saurashtra, Kutch & Diu is predicted for two days.
SRL Diagnostics to expand its business in West Bengal
Jul 29, 2015, at 12:05 am
Kolkata, July 28 (IBNS): In an endeavour to provide world class diagnostic services to people of Eastern India and especially West Bengal, SRL Diagnostics, the leading global diagnostic chain plans to expand their footprints in the eastern part of India.
Jul 28, 2015, at 11:17 pm
Lyon, France, July 28 (IBNS) Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, announced on Tuesday that new data analyses published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) provide a comprehensive picture of the potential public health impact of vaccinating endemic populations from pre-adolescence to adulthood against dengue.
Jul 28, 2015, at 09:26 pm
Jakarta, July 28 (IBNS): A strong earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hit Indonesian province of Papua on Tuesday, the USGS said.
Latest results from LHC experiments are presented in Vienna
Jul 28, 2015, at 04:39 am
Geneva/Vienna, July 27 (IBNS): The world particle-physics community has convened in Vienna for the 2015 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2015), where the latest results in the field are being presented and discussed.
Met office issues warning for heavy to very heavy rainfall in various parts of India
Jul 26, 2015, at 11:12 pm
New Delhi, July 26 (IBNS) The Indian Meteorological Department on Sunday issued warnings of 'Heavy to Very Heavy' rainfall in various parts of India for over next two days.
India granted patent to treat incurable disease in Malaysia
Jul 25, 2015, at 04:14 am
Kolkata, July 24 (IBNS): Indian medical innovation has come to the forefront with the Human Embryonic Stem Cell technology developed by Dr Geeta Shroff at Nutech Mediworld being granted the 66th patent in Malaysia for the treatment of various medical conditions.
Jul 25, 2015, at 02:59 am
Kolkata, July 24 (IBNS): National Release Centre (NRC) for India in collaboration with Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd., hosted a two day interactive Workshop on 'Introduction to SNOMED CT' at Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata on Friday and Saturday.
NASA's Kepler Mission discovers bigger, older cousin to Earth
Jul 24, 2015, at 03:42 pm
California, July 24 (IBNS) NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone†around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets mark another milestone in the journey to finding another "Earth."
UN health agency to mark World Hepatitis Day with pilot initiative to curb unsafe injections
Jul 24, 2015, at 03:22 pm
New York, July 24 (IBNS) The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursdaythat it will commemorate the fifth World Hepatitis Day next week with a global ?injection safety initiative campaign in three pilot countries together with the foundation arm of IKEA to combat the "silent epidemic" that kills more than 1.4 million each year.
Mumbai High Court questions blanket ban on Maggi noodles
Jul 23, 2015, at 09:54 pm
Mumbai, Jul 23 (IBNS) The Bombay High on Thursday questioned the propriety of the blanket ban on Maggi noodles.