The wisdom of indigenous healers
Medicinal Plants of India - Vols I & II S K Jain and Robert A DeFillips Publisher: Reference Publications Price: US $94.95
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Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 7, 2022)
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Disappearing tree
An evergreen tree found only in Africa is on the verge of extinction because of large-scale stripping of its bark
EU to stop import of herbal products
By May 2003, the European Council was supposed to have reached a consensus on a directive that seeks to regulate the supply of herbal products in …
Drug pricing policies bent to favour pharma industry, allege health experts
Nearly 83 per cent medicines out of the ambit of price control policy, thus making them out of reach for most patients, say two recent reports
Vitamin C could be panacea for drug-resistant TB
Vitamin triggers reaction which eventually kills off bacteria; could help shorten drug therapy
Breakthrough in search for new malaria cure
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Guidelines released to help elderly take insulin injections the correct way
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Anti-malarial drug resistant parasites knock on India’s doors
Countries will have to consider the possibility of revising treatment strategy to counter drug resistance, says study
Science for people
Scientists attending the 101st Science Congress discuss solutions to lift farmers, livestock owners out of poverty
Breathing uneasy
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India’s first centre for chronic conditions launched
The centre will conduct research into chronic diseases to find solutions and prevent their spread
Research on avian influenza virus to resume
Scientists had suspended research a year ago following public safety concerns over laboratory-modified H5N1 viruses
Highs and lows
The government's vanaspati van scheme is good news, but for it to succeed small-scale farmers and local communities have to be brought in its fold
Grow more
There is no land to cultivate medicinal plants, neither are there any legal provisions, nor market access. At present, the risks involved are …
A Himalayan Tragedy
People who have no idea about forests step in to further trade, while the indigenous herb gatherers get exploited further
Herbal heist
Hand-in-glove with the forest department, traders of medicinal plants and herbs make hay while communities who depend on herb gathering for …
SC awards Rs 5.96 crore compensation in medical negligence case
Wife of NRI doctor Kunal Saha, Anuradha, had died of complications after treatment at Kolkata's AMRI hospital in 1998
Super Market
Secretive. Exploitative. Is the market in Minor Forest Produce unmanageable? sopan joshi finds out
Most infant deaths in India occur on first day of birth
The country accounts for 29 per cent of the global deaths of newborns on their first day of birth
Cyclones, locust attacks: Climate disasters, COVID-19 pose dual challenge in South Asia
From flash floods in Pakistan to cyclone in Bay of Bengal, climate-related disasters have compounded COVID-19 crisis in South Asia
India’s sanitation campaign has not improved health of people: study
Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan did not help reduce exposure to faecal germs and diseases. Will Swachh Bharat Abhiyan fare any better?
One test to detect different types of cancers
Test distinguishes between healthy patients and those with cancer, based on the damage done to the DNA present in their white blood cells
Many links missing in Patanjali’s claims of COVID-19 drugs
AYUSH ministry halts sales but experts question other government agencies too