Public Health

Biological Weapons

The Geneva Protocol was ratified the 17 June 1925, banned the use of biological weapons but Japan refused to approve the contract and the U.S. to ratify it. Therefore in 1936 Shiro Ishii (1892-1959) physician, microbiologist and general Japanese, guided t ...

Article - Camillo Di Cicco - Jul 2 2012 - 8:51am

Respiratory Symptoms Better Indicator Of H1N1 Than Fever

A new study says that mild H1N1 infection may go undetected using standard diagnostic criteria and concludes that coughing or other respiratory symptoms are more accurate in determining influenza infection than presence of a fever.  A team led by Sang Won ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2010 - 12:37am

On a Diet Again

That did it, if only by an inch. Damn! Two days ago, back from a 4-week vacation to Greece, I approached my faithful and precise scale with a clear, pre-determined thought in my mind: " If I am over 77.5 kilograms, I will start a strict diet to bring ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 29 2010 - 3:08am

Childhood Obesity Declines- Except In Some Minorities

Obesity rates have leveled off and even started to decline for many adolescents, but not certain racial and ethnic minorities, according to a new study.  The study says it is the first to find significant differences in obesity trends over time by race and ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2010 - 12:50pm

Thanks MP3s: Hearing Loss Among US Adolescents Spikes

A study in the latest JAMA using data from two nationally representative surveys indicates that hearing loss among U.S. adolescents increased by about 30 percent in a 12 year period ending 2006, with 1 in 5 adolescents having hearing loss in the 2005-2006 ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2010 - 4:02pm

Goethe was one of the greatest poet

Wetzler is situated near Gissen too. Wetzler is famous for optics Carl Zeiss and Leica are from here.  Our friend of 35 years took us there. Goethe the famous poet lived in Wetzlar for about three months.   During his period came a famous story of ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 18 2010 - 1:00pm

Atropa bella-donna gives atropine

This plant Atropa bella-donna yields famous drug atropine used to dilate the pupil of the eyes and has medicinal properties. This plant is highly valued for its medicinal properties. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 19 2010 - 1:55pm

Tylophora for asthama

Late Professor B. Tiagi was a great botanist who taught almost all the people or now teachers  (or now retired teachers) who worked all over Rajasthan in the period hailing from 1960s to 1990s or even later on. He was very regular to the Department and al ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 21 2010 - 6:41am

Ladies purses some designs

If only you could visit the new Barcelona airport and see the shops you will hardly notice any signs of recession. I was much impressed by the designs of ladies purses displayed in window which had some freshness and mixture of clours. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 23 2010 - 2:20pm

Sodium and glucose transport across cell membrane

Cell membrane composed of lipids is impermeable to glucose which is a polar compound. Transport of glucose across the cell membrane requires a carrier protein located in cell membrane. In plant system it is triose phosphate which is transported across the ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 23 2010 - 3:42pm