Ramnagar (Uttarakhand), Mar 24 : A self-help group is training rural women in herbal farming and medicines in Uttarakhand to make them self reliant.

Women of the Ramnagar area of Nainital District have joined the Navjyoti self-help group and are being trained in herb farming. They have created a small garden to grow herbs and from these herbs they are making medicines.

The self-help group consists of 19 women where they make various tonics, syrups and herbal oils.

Washington, Mar 24: Scientists may soon be able to find a way to prevent common blunders, such as spilling a cup of coffee or failing to notice a red light, thanks to a new research, which has shown that the human brain is capable of signalling when an error is about to happen.

A research team, led by a researcher at the University of California, Davis, in collaboration with the Donders Institute in the Netherlands, has found a distinct electric signature in the brain, which predicts when an error is about to be made.

Washington, Mar 24: An international team of researchers has created a global map that shows the proportion of malaria infected population at locations throughout the globe – a development which can act as a key tool to help in the control and elimination of the disease.

For developing the map, the researchers used data from nearly 8000 local surveys of rates of infection by Plasmodium falciparum.

Washington, Mar 24: Children and siblings of people with venous thrombosis, or blood clots in the veins, may be more than twice as likely to develop the condition than those without a family history, say Dutch researchers.

Venous thrombosis typically begins in leg veins, although the clot may subsequently break off and travel to the lungs.

"Because universal screening is not cost-effective, research efforts are focused on selection criteria that may be used to increase the chance of finding a genetic risk factor," the authors write.

Washington, Mar 24: Women who are victims of physical abuse from intimate partners have increased health care costs, even after the abuse has ended, a new study has found.

“Along with all the physical and emotional pain it causes, domestic violence also comes with a substantial financial price,” said Amy Bonomi, co-author of the study and associate professor of human development and family science at Ohio State University.

Washington, Mar 24 : Listening to enjoyable music could help save damaged sight in stroke victims, new research suggests.

According to the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, up to 60 percent of stroke patients have impaired visual awareness of the outside world as a result, where they have trouble interacting with certain objects in the visual world.