Feature Article

ipsita's picture

Borne again

19960630

Why is malaria, an easily preventable ailment, showing signs of resurging in all its fury, and what are we doing to contain its marauding steps?

0
5
Publication Date: 
29/06/1996
thesaurus: 
Author: 
Main Topic: 
ipsita's picture

Under the umbrella

19960630

A residential school in Chamtagora has relieved the anxieties of migrant workers native to the area, who spend most of the year away from their children

0
5
Publication Date: 
29/06/1996
Author: 
Main Topic: 
ipsita's picture

The faces of malaria

Malaria varies with the type of parasite or vector involved, the level of resistance and eco-epiderniological considerations: TRibAL MALARIA Generally prevalant in the tribal areas of deep

5
0
19960630
Publication Date: 
29/06/1996
thesaurus: 
Main Topic: 
ipsita's picture

Holding out the olive branch

The Save Coast Movement (SCM) of Orissa scored a major victory in its campaign to protect the habitat of the olive ridley turtles. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), bowing

5
0
19960630
Publication Date: 
29/06/1996
Main Topic: 
ipsita's picture

Life cycle of P falciparum

Life-cycle of P falciparum

5
0
19960630
Publication Date: 
29/06/1996
thesaurus: 
Main Topic: 
ipsita's picture

Dial tol free

The 'innocent-looking' telephone directory has been the target of the ire of US environmentalists. Recently, they had much to cheer about when the city council of Santa Monica, California,

5
0
19960630
Publication Date: 
29/06/1996
Main Topic: 
ipsita's picture

Not of the same feather

Scientists have recently discovered that certain disorders do not seem to go well with malaria. One such finding shows that sickle cell anaemia patients are resistant to cerebral malaria.

5
0
19960630
Publication Date: 
29/06/1996
thesaurus: 
Main Topic: 
ipsita's picture

Lying in ambush

19960630

The contagious TB bacillus, present in a state of dormancy in many of us, is raising its ugly head again, upsetting all the currently practised modes of stopping it

0
5
Publication Date: 
29/06/1996
thesaurus: 
Main Topic: 
ipsita's picture

Under the lens

Mycobacteria make daunting subjects for study. In contrast to the more commonly used organism for molecular biological research, the E Coli, which produces a visible colony in about eight hours,

5
0
19960630
Publication Date: 
29/06/1996
thesaurus: 
Main Topic: 
ipsita's picture

A tale of two treatments

In the treatment of TB, the intensive periods under standard regimen (SR) and shorter course chemotherapy (SCC) remain constant at two months, after which the patient turns sputum negative. The

5
0
19960630
Publication Date: 
29/06/1996
thesaurus: 
Main Topic: 

Pages