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Soft Target

Issue: : 2002-6-15

Children are bearing the brunt of environmental degradation. Across the class divide, they are eating, drinking and breathing poison. And their special bodies make them most vulnerable to a host of diseases

Phew!

Issue: : 2004-11-30

Malaria control again

Sanitise and rule

Issue: : 2004-7-31

How yellow fever became a ruse for the US to occupy Cuba

A simple device

Issue: : 2004-6-15

But the invention of the stethoscope revolutionised medical diagnosis

Not enough

Issue: : 2004-4-30

Treatment has reached many but tuberculosis still kills millions

Remarkably clean

Issue: : 2004-4-30

Port cities set up by Dutch colonists had ingenuous drainage systems

4 flu mutants

Issue: : 2004-3-15

Seven eminent virologists discuss the implications with Down To Earth

Pox Americana

Issue: : 2004-2-29

Is the West a victim of its own past?

A tale of two diseases

Issue: : 2003-4-15

India is the shining star in the global battle to eradicate smallpox. It is also a branded villain as far as polio is concerned. How is it that we managed so well against a disease more virulent than polio? Why does Uttar Pradesh today contribute to about 88 per cent of all polio cases worldwide?

Polio - alive and kicking

Issue: : 2003-3-15

The polio virus is possibly the most innocuous virus that affects humans. The improvement of sanitation standards across the world has meant fewer people are afflicted by polio as infants, upsetting the historical balance between virus and host. But, since poorer sections still live in squalor and consume water and food contaminated by faeces, the virus remains a threat to the global community

Perpetually ill-prepared

Issue: : 2003-1-31

Inept response as mystery fever grips Uttar Pradesh

Drugged by chicken

Issue: : 2002-10-15

Antibiotics in meat make disease-causing bacteria resistant to cures

Not quite the light side

Issue: : 2002-6-15

Divided colours of genomics

Issue: : 2002-6-15

WHO reports on the growing 'genetic divide'

Healthy advertising

Issue: : 2002-4-30

Are advertisers bound -- legally or ethically -- to take potential health hazards into account?

Exploding the myth

Issue: : 2001-12-31

Down To Earth December 31, 2001 55 THE EVOLUTION EXPLOSION: HOW HUMANS CAUSE RAPID EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE· Stephen R Palumbi·W W Norton & Company·New York·pp288·US $24.99

Tobacco wars

Issue: : 2001-8-15

A QUESTION OF INTENT·David Kessler·Public Affair/BBS Pulications, New York· US $27.50

Another plague in the offing

Issue: : 2001-8-15

The rash of leptospirosis cases in Mumbai during the current monsoon points towards the gradual breakdown of health services in burgeoning metropolises

Catching viruses

Issue: : 1994-11-15

Brand new infectious maladies such as Jacobson's disease have begun to plague the world, despite better sanitation and medication in developed countries

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