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Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

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Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Month: December 2015

Diabetes

How to prevent your child from getting diabetes

Published in The Hindu on March 29, 2007   Screening for gestational diabetes has got a shot in the arm.

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HIVHIV/AIDSTuberculosis

Studying the prevalence of HIV in TB patients

Published in The Hindu on March 22, 2007 Even as “Difficulties in working alongside the better-funded efforts to tackle AIDS

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EditorialHIVHIV/AIDS

Editorial: A significant pilot study

Published in The Hindu on March 21, 2007 Tamil Nadu has been in the forefront in implementing HIV/AIDS prevention and

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Drug companiesDrugsEditorialPharmaceutical companiesWHOWorld Health Organisation

Editorial: Developing drugs for the poor

Published in The Hindu on March 9, 2007 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has taken some notable steps to address

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Diabetes

Yoga for treating early stages of diabetes

  Management of type 2 diabetes in newly diagnosed patients with near normal HBA1c level need not always be through

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Editorial

Editorial: Cord blood in public banks

Published in The Hindu on February 16, 2007 Nearly eight years after it issued a set of guidelines for banking

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Private cord blood banking discouraged

If the recommendations in 1999 by the American Academy of Pediatrics were strongly in favour of public cord blood banking,

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Avian influenzaEditorialWHOWorld Health Organisation

Editorial: Another global outbreak of bird flu

Published in The Hindu on February 12, 2007 With the recent outbreak of bird flu in a farm in Suffolk,

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Avian influenzaCDCNature

Bird flu: shorter interval between outbreaks

Published in The Hindu on February 8, 2007 A second instance of avian influenza spreading across the globe and to

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CloningDNAEditorialFDA

Editorial: Denying the right to choose

Published in The Hindu on February 5, 2007 A decade after the birth of the world’s first cloned animal, Dolly,

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CloningStem cells

Stem cell lines: Misrepresentation of information in report

Published in The Hindu on January 25, 2007 In what may appear as yet another attempt by the Bush administration

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CloningDNAFDA

Milk and meat from cloned animals

Published in The Hindu on January 11, 2007 When the team at Roslin Institute in Midlothian, U.K., successfully cloned Dolly,

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EducationResearchScience

Stemming the rot by making science attractive

In an effort to reverse the decline in the number of students taking up science as a subject of study

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