Bad environment kills

A new study seeks to link pollutants to the spread of prostate cancer

Clean-up time

Sucking in toxics

Presence of pollutants such as PCBs in mothers' milk and blood restrains children's growth

Underestimated threat

System error

IT will become an agent of change only when there is less of government and more of innovation

Finishing touches

Ayurvedic massage can reduce body's toxin levels by 58 per cent

Of mild cigarettes and stiff penalties

Philip Morris told to pay damages for misleading smokers

For kids' sake

EPA sued for soft-pedalling on anti-pesticide safeguards

Re-counted

Standards to assess radiation-induced cancer are correct

China eying Lhasa site for nuclear reactor

A US-based Tibetan organisation says not only is China intending to build a nuclear reactor near Lhasa, but is also setting up sites for missiles …

Virtual reality

A new computing laboratory can project larger than real life images of human body's smallest part

Fatal Attraction

The thirst for diesel in India is growing. Diesel mania grips the Indian automobile industry and the customers with more and more companies going …

Short-term hormone therapy raises ovarian cancer risk

Researchers say these findings will have implications for international guidelines on Hormone Replace Therapy

Bihar initiates PPP model cancer treatment

Modern oncology centre with all treatment and diagnosis facilities envisaged in Patna Medical College in first phase

Bihar initiates PPP model cancer treatment

Modern oncology centre with all treatment and diagnosis facilities envisaged in Patna Medical College in first phase

Push to prevent cancer, strokes

Government wakes up to threat of non-communicable diseases

Childhood cancers

Toxic houses

PUERTO RICO

Pill trouble

Dabur given go-ahead to market birth defect-causing drug

US comes clean

Diesel becomes a dirty word in the official US environmental lexicon

Exposing America's toxic burden

Pesticides Action Network's report says Americans carry high pesticide levels in their bodies

High hazard

Incidence of stomach cancer in Leh is four times the national average

Cancer drug touted as fertility pill

Cancer drug letrozole is at the centre of a controversy over its being promoted as a fertility enhancer. The Union government has issued notices …

Aspartame ‘possibly carcinogenic to humans’, labels WHO expert panel

Limited evidence on whether the artificial sweetener causes cancer in humans, more studies on carcinogenicity needed