Traffic-driven diabetes

STRESS, frustration, rising blood pressure and breathing problems are common in motorists who spend hours in traffic jams. Now scientists have found another health consequence of traffic snarls— diabetes.

Science & Technology - Briefs

HEALTH SCIENCES What makes a robust egg?

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Tango with nature

Shooting pain

"I want to make a film about the unequal wages women peasants get compared to their male counterparts," 40-something Haseena Mallah said.

Letters

Clay balm for Pushkar

“My room used to be full of used napkins”

A Muruganatham, 47, of Coimbatore, invented a machine that makes 1,000 sanitary napkins daily. He also improvised a vending machine that can dispense napkins when coins are inserted. He spoke to Down To Earth on what must be done to make menstrual hygiene affordable

Rags to pads

The Union health ministry launched a Rs 150-crore scheme last month to promote menstrual health among rural adolescent girls.

From the blurbs

Health and population in India from earliest times to present by Sumit Guha, Permanent Black, Rs 295 In the last millennium old world populations and their new world colonies have expanded enormously. This book highlights the debates in the population history of Asia, Europe and the Americas. A rare document on vaccination is translated for the first time to illustrate diverse cultures and medical techniques. The Service Revolution In India edited by Ejaz Ghani, OUP, Rs 795

A bunch of feisty women

In 1860, two young women held a long discussion on their career prospects in the small southern English town of Hitchens. “I must devote myself to securing the higher education while you open the medical profession to women,” Emily Davies told Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.

Living the report

In March 2004, a group of Dalit women from Uttar Pradesh’s Bundelkhand region stood on a stage in a plush Delhi auditorium.