Watch the clock

MOST heart attacks occur in the morning. Depression and suicidal thoughts peak in the middle of the night. Travelling across time zones makes people feel out of sorts. While these appear to be different observations, there is one interesting phenomenon common to them all: a clock that constantly ticks inside of us.

Big promises to curb hypertension, but no funds

The theme of the World Health Day 2013 is high blood pressure, responsible for life threatening conditions like cardiovascular diseases and associated comorbidities such as strokes.

Himachal model shows the way

A pilot programme being implemented in Solan district of Himachal Pradesh could prove to be a model for health authorities of other districts to improve detection and management of diabetes and hypertension.

Killing you sweetly

SUGAR is as much to blame for the diabetes epidemic in the world as unhealthy lifestyle and obesity. A study at Stanford University, in collaboration with University of California, Berkley and University of California, San Francisco, in the US, has found that additional sugar in diet may be raising the risk of Type-2 diabetes.

India’s Minamata

Saraju Nisha sits at the door of her house, about 500 metres from a mountain of coal mine waste in Chilika Daad village in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district. The 60-year-old former miner is in deep pain.

Junking the myth

A COMMON argument of proponents of fast food is that such products are not very different from oily food made at home. But scientists at University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health in the US say eating oil-laden home made French fries and burgers is not the same as gobbling up the same food at your favourite fast food joint.

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Chemistry From nature’s basket

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MICROBIOLOGY Algae against malaria

Green Revolution’s hidden toll

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ECOLOGY Jelly, jelly everywhere