The number of cancer patients in Assam and other parts of north eastern region is increasing with every passing year and according to Director of Dr. B Barooah Cancer Institute Dr. Gazi G Ahmed, the
Two cases of the flesh eating bacteria have surfaced at Philadelhia hospitals. Necrotizing Fasciitis infects 500 to 1,500 Americans a year and is fatal in about 30 per cent of cases, according to the
The left-handed molecules that led to the beginning of life on Earth may have been singled out for their eventual role in biology by a type of radiation that astronomers have discovered in a
Alang, a spot on the coastline of Gujarat has become the world's biggest shipbreaking yard. In the 1990s, Alang has served as the graveyard for almost half of the ships scrapped by the world's navies
The United Nations has declared 1998 the International Year of the Ocean. This has provided a pretext for lofty talk about resucing the oceans from pollution and overfishing. Recent decisions by
A new drug cuts the rate of breast cancer deaths by two-thirds among women at high risk of getting new tumors, researchers led by Ingo Diel of the University of Heidelberg reported. The drug,
The human line has emerged from Africa not once but twice. That is the ingenious and far reaching surmise proposed in the latest issue of Current Biology by Caro-Beth Stewart of the State University
5% of Maine, plenty of trees : Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of forest, a swath that is about 5 percent of the land in Maineis is for sale in the northern part of the state, prompting a
Concern over the deployment mechanism for the high-gain communication antenna on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has caused NASA managers to consider postponing the antenna's deployment in order
Nepal, the Himalayan country is showing the way to South Asia by going right ahead and setting up its first community radio station. "Radio Sagarmatha" is the first non-official, community run FM
