Down To Earth speaks to Maureen Miller, infectious disease epidemiologist and medical anthropologist about the possible origins of the novel coronavirus
‘Exiting COVID-19 lockdown needs robust disease surveillance’
Understanding zoonotic diseases: ‘How we interact with environment drives spillovers’
Understanding zoonotic diseases: ‘Humans are changing disease ecosystem’
The Sikh Gurus' service to the sick can be a lesson for today's pandemic
Down To Earth speaks to Mohinder Singh, professor and director of the National Institute of Panjab Studies and Bhai ...
‘60% of India’s population would be infected by COVID-19 in a year’s time’
Infectious diseases expert, T Jacob John says there is no evidence to prove India's blanket flight ban will help in ...
The DRC is on the road to being Ebola free: how it got here
At the beginning of March the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo announced that the last Ebola patient ...
Coronavirus: 'Difficult to talk of trajectory but should die down by May'
Down To Earth interviewed Eric Feigl-Ding, epidemiologist with Harvard Chan School of Public Health, on the ongoing coronavirus outbreak
A breakthrough for a rare genetic disorder
After 13 years of experiments and research, Indian scientist Surajit Sinha has developed a chemical formula to make medicine ...
‘Online nutrition tracker to promptly plug service gaps’
Down To Earth talks to the project lead of Nutrition Surveillance System
'We need better awareness to stop this trend of old age pregnancies'
Jaideep Malhotra, president of the Indian Society for Assisted Reproduction (ISAR) and director of Rainbow IVF, talks to Down ...
Corruption raises cost of healthcare by 25%: Samiran Nundy
Leading gastroenterologist Samiran Nundyco-editor of Healers or Predators?: Healthcare Corruption in India, spoke to Down To Earth about the ...
'Generic industry makes poor-quality drugs for nations with lax regulations'
Katherine Eban, author of Bottle of Lies, is an investigative journalist whose articles on pharmaceutical counterfeiting, gun trafficking and ...
‘It’s absurd to blame litchi for AES, malnourishment the real cause’
Arun Shah, a Muzaffarpur-based paediatrician who has researched on the syndrome, says the fruit is only a triggering factor ...
'Innovators of medical diagnostic tools can approach us for finances'
Mohammad Aslam, managing director of Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council, tells Down To Earth how the government-aided non-profit hand ...
World Malaria Day: ‘If we don’t become complacent, we can eliminate malaria like 1965’
PL Joshi, former head of National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme talks to Down To Earth about how malaria ...
‘India’s statements about Zika virus in Rajasthan are detrimental to public awareness’
Yale scientist Nathan Grubaugh criticises the central and state response to the Zika crisis, praises Down To Earth’s Madhya ...
'Indian firms most responsible in CSR'
Countries look at India as a leader to emulate, says philathropist RUTH A SHAPIRO in an interview to Down ...
Fight against antibiotic resistance brings India to focus
Chand Wattal, who strongly objected to New Delhi assigned as name to a gene that confers resistance to bacteria, ...
'Tobacco not only injurious to health but also a major source of radiation exposure'
Alok Srivastava, physical and nuclear chemist who is the co-author of a study on radioactive Polonium in tobacco, talks about ...
Low public funding in health exacerbates poverty, says Nigerian health minister
Nigeria's Minister of Health Isaac Adewole talks to Bennett Oghifo about the country's commitment to provide universal health coverage ...
All you need to know about Zika and how it spreads
Nitesh Pandey, a researcher in Evolutionary Medicine with Indian Astrobiology Research Foundation, talks about Zika and how the mobility ...
"Every ninth baby here suffers brain damage"
A woman with a mission. ORAL ATANVFAZOVA, at 39, finds herself in the midst of a salvage operation aimed ...
"We are starved of funds"
KALYAN BANERJEE, director of the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune, speaks to MAX MARTIN about the emergence ...
"I have yet to apply my mind to the forest convention"
Even uith the United Nations General Assembly Special Session to held in New Yorkjust two weeksfirom now, the Union ...
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