-The Telegraph New Delhi: India has the world's highest estimated burden of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis patients and needs to substantially accelerate its capacity for diagnosis and treatment of these patients, a World Health Organisation report has indicated. The WHO's global tuberculosis report for 2013, released today, estimates that India accounts for 64,000 cases of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) among notified patients with pulmonary (lung) tuberculosis. China and Russia follow with 59,000 and 46,000 cases. The...
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Tuberculosis gains at risk due to millions of missed patients, drug resistance –UN report
-The United Nations Treatment has saved the lives of more than 22 million people with tuberculosis (TB), according to a new report by the United Nations health agency that also reveals that the number of deaths from the disease fell to 1.3 million last year. The Global Tuberculosis Report 2013, published today by the World Health Organization (WHO), confirms that the world is on track to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)...
More »Kudankulam nuclear plant starts generating power, connected to southern grid -B Sivakumar
-The Times of India CHENNAI: After years of delay, marked by technical glitches and protests, the Kudankulam nuclear power plant at Kudankulam in Tirunelveli, south Tamil Nadu is finally a reality. At 2.45am on Tuesday, nearly 160MW produced by unit 1 of the plant was connected to the southern grid. The significant synchronization process came as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wound up his visit to Moscow after talks about possible future...
More »Delhi tops chart of children taking ill at mid-day meals -Tabassum Barnagarwala
-The Indian Express New Delhi: This July, 23 school children from a village in Bihar died after eating mid-day meals contaminated with pesticide. While the incident was the first such to be reported in the country, data shows that in the past 10 years, 2,069 children across the country have taken ill after consuming food provided under the mid-day meal scheme, with figure from Delhi topping the list. According to data collected...
More »Supreme Court blocks 157 clinical trials, says must follow new regime -Utkarsh Anand
-The Indian Express The fate of 157 government-approved global clinical trials seemed uncertain on Monday as the Supreme Court ordered the Centre to wait for its nod while the authorities re-examined the cases under the new regulatory regime. Making it clear that clinical trials being conducted in India must be done for the benefit of the people here, a bench of Justices R M Lodha and S K Singh directed the government...
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