Alok Srivastava, physical and nuclear chemist who is the co-author of a study on radioactive Polonium in tobacco, talks about how the carcinogen can be detected
Low public funding in health exacerbates poverty, says Nigerian health minister
All you need to know about Zika and how it spreads
‘Gamers with pathological patterns can now be diagnosed and treated’
‘If periods are bad omen, then semen discharge should be too’
A tête-à-tête with Dr Meenakshi Bharath, a gynaecologist for the last 35 years and a green campaigner
"I spent three years in bed, giving company to death"
K Pradipkumar Singh was diagnosed with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in 2000. After suffering acute stigma for many ...
'Investigation shows 24 per cent patients tested positive for scrub typhus'
George M Varghese, professor at the Department of Infectious Diseases, Christian Medical College, Vellore, talks about scrub typhus, a ...
When I abandoned movies, yoga came to my rescue
For Aashiqui actor Anu Aggarwal, yoga brought happiness and also provided tools to find it
'Poor sanitation not only has a health dimension but also an economic and environmental one'
Down To Earth spoke to Kebede Worku, Ethiopia's State Minister for Health, on the turnaround that his country has ...
'We are in a much better position than in the past'
With the Zika virus spreading across the Americas, the international community has panicked. Kundan Pandey spoke to Soumya Swaminathan, ...
'India’s sanitation crisis is the biggest in the world'
According to Jack Sim, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat movement is a historic moment to transform India into a ...
Proper diet for children should include eggs to provide good quality proteins
Veena Shatrugna has campaigned vigorously against brahmanical influence on the ‘balanced diet’. She explains the politics of food that has ...
`Diseases have become a way of life in Gaza'
Born and raised in a refugee camp in Gaza, Izzeldin Abuelaish is a Palestinian doctor who has worked for ...
'Ebola is the result of environmental degradation'
Peter Hotez is the co-founder of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases that provides access to essential medicines ...
`We've strong evidence that eating sugar contributes to heart disease'
Kimber Stanhope, nutritional biologist at the University of California, Davis, US, is studying the health effects of fructose, a ...
`Many doctors are simply businessmen'
Samiran Nundy, chairperson of the department of surgical gastroenterology and organ transplantation at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and editor-in-chief ...
`Irresponsible reportage can harm business'
Vishal Nath, director, National Research Centre for Litchi (NRCL), says there is no scientific evidence to prove that acute ...
`Eating chicken is like taking a course of antibiotics'
Devi Shetty, cardiac surgeon and founder of Narayana Health, has seen increasing cases of antibiotic resistance at his hospital. ...
A reliable HIV self-test
Nitika Pant Pai, assistant professor at the department of medicine, McGill University, Canada, and her team have analysed data ...
Most disease maps unreliable
Disease maps help capture distribution of pathogens and their transmission intensity. An international team of researchers has reviewed ...
Novel Therapy
Bimal K Banik is President’s Endowed Professor and professor of chemistry at College of Science and Mathematics, University of ...
How safe is your toothpaste?
From the basic, white toothpaste of yesteryears to the specialised cavity- and plaque-control ones, toothpastes have come a long ...
GM maize and its health implications for humans
Michael Antoniou, head of the Nuclear Biology Group in the UK, has been studying the health effects of genetically ...
Tulsi Fights Fluorosis
Fluoride levels in drinking water in 196 districts of 19 Indian states are much higher than the maximum concentration ...
‘Manipulate market, lower drug prices’
In times of rising costs of healthcare compounded by shortage of funds, UNITAID, a UN organisation, was set up ...