Speaking to reporters after a review meeting with departmental secretary M Madan Gopal and Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner S Subramanya, he said the committee's aim is to find a long-lasting solution to this vector-borne disease. "The government has

One-third to half of all child deaths in India are due to malnutrition, making it one of the biggest causes of child deaths in the country, Victor Aguayo, Chief, Child Nutrition and Development, UNICEF, said. He said that for the

Since most men who buy sex are married or are about to get married, significantly ostensibly "low-risk" women who only have sex with their husbands are exposed to HIV, the report by the Commission on AIDS in Asia submitted to

These were some of the recommendations of experts who were discussing the findings of the Report of the Commission on AIDS in Asia released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. "Strong commitment from the political leadership is needed on this issue.

Acute osteomyelitis, a bone infection that mainly occurs in children, is usually caused by the staph bacteria. Treatment has conventionally been straightforward because most S. aureus bacteria can be killed with existing antibiotics. Recently, however, more children with osteomyelitis have

Many of the tens of million worldwide with essential hypertension (BP) later go on to develop diabetes and other complications. University of California researchers showed that a drug developed for humans was effective in counteracting molecular mechanism in the spontaneously

The results support the foetal origin of disease theory, which argues that certain conditions and diseases in adult life are programmed by factors during pregnancy. Diabetes, coronary heart disease, and high blood pressure for example have been linked to low

Pioneered by Daniel K. Lee, at University of California, it is the first to offer long-suffering arthritis patients a non-metallic, biological ankle replacement. "Up until now, patients have had two options... metal implants or fusion of the joints," said Lee,

A study by neuroscientists at New York University and Rutgers University has cited that the cognitive strategies humans use for regulating emotions can reveal about both the neurological and physiological responses to potential rewards. These findings, may divulge more details

Andrew Koob and Richard Borgens of Purdue University found that rats injected with PEG, or Polyethylene glycol, limited brain damage, if administered within four hours of the injury. However, if treatment was delayed for a two more hours, the beneficial

The scientists indicated that the people who inherit this disorder, which is a type of brachyolmia, a skeletal dysplasia, have a shorter-than-average trunk, limbs and fingers and toes, and are affected by scoliosis, primarily in the lumbar vertebrae. It is

A survey by researchers at the University of Michigan Health System was conducted on 804 obstetricians, out of which 75 percent said that the experience took a large emotional toll on them personally "Our survey reveals that perinatal death has

Both British and US guidelines recommend that children should be moderately physically active for at least an hour daily in a bid to stave off obesity and its attendant health risks. The results showed that some children spend as little

Experts believe that children are programmed to be sporty or sedentary and pushing them into exercise may have little effect on whether they are fat or not. The study showed that even though fewer than half of boys and only

The team conducted experiments in a laboratory test tube and found that allergic conditions like asthma might be triggered by a "clash" between two molecules in the immune system. One of the two molecules was already known to be very

The study conducted by bioengineering experts at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering has also revealed that a drug may effectively counteract the underlying molecular mechanism. Writing about their findings in the online version of Hypertension, the researchers have

German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said more than 50 studies in the German Mobile Telecommunications Research Programme (DMF), conducted from 2002 to 2008, had found no evidence that mobile phones and transmission towers posed a health risk within the required

Their ground-breaking work identified a single network core, or hub, that may be the key to the working of both hemispheres of the brain. The work by researchers from Indiana University, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne,

Reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by experts at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, the study showed that mice lacking the myocyte enhancer factor 2C (MEF2C) protein in neural stem cells had smaller brains, fewer

Radiologists donning special glasses is not the only potential aid. The Mayo Clinic is testing a new kind of breast camera that might challenge the images of those far pricer MRI exams now reserved for the most high-risk women,but at