A two-drug therapy that promises to cure stomach ulcers and prevent their recurrence has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Under the newly approved regimen, patients will take
IN A bid to wade out of troubled waters, the UK is throwing a bait to its fisherfolk. If they agree to scrap vessels and stop fishing, they will pocket a sum of us $19.8 million. The move
A letter of protest Was written on May 9, to the World Bank (W8) president James Wolfensohn, by the International Rivers Network and the human rights group Witness for Peace, calling for an
The debate over the magic qualities of vitaminCseems to be ending in its favour. Mark Levine of the National Institute of Health's Clinical Center in Bethesda in the US, conducted a study and
IN A move that has raised eyebrows among animal rights activists, Canada called off the seal hunt on its east coast a few weeks ago. The opponents of the hunt suspect that the decision
According to medical and environmental scientists, deodorants are toxic and in some caseslethal. This view was established after a recent research which proved that, practicallyall deodorants are
FRIENDS OF ENVIRONMENT: The world's largest producer and marketer of home appliances, Whirlpool Corporation, will flow in Rs 350 crore for setting up a modern CFC-free, nofrost refrigerator
Vesta Dama Pawra and Bhamta Tukya Padvi, two tribals from the Sardar Sarovar submergence zone villages in Dhule district of Maharashtra, alongwith the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha