Malnutrition count up in Orissa

Debate over mobile towers close to hospitals

ICDS gets packaged food for the malnourished

Breathing easy

A hundred medicines, a dozen therapies but no cure, that is the story of asthma treatment world wide. Complementary medicine fill the vacuum

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Gasping millions

Asthma, the bane of modern life, stalks the young ones and the affluent. It will strike 32 million people in India by 2010. The silent strangler …

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Transport costs

When McDonald’s ate crow

The UK’s longest case was a PR disaster for the fast food giant

Can business be responsible

Children of endosulfan

Several unusual diseases afflict a Kerala village. Residents blame aerial spraying of the pesticide endosulfan by the Plantation Corporation of …

The new obesity

A growing number of people are unable to shed those extra pounds despite strict diet regimes and long hours of workout. Evidence shows that the …

New financing facility to help poor countries reach 2015 development goal

Additional funds will speed up progress on women and child health in developing countries

Now healthy ads sell junk food

Commercials mislead consumers by shifting the focus from poor nutrition to physical exercise

What it takes to deliver midday meal

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Dangerous play

Solid biomass as cooking fuel is a killer

Use of biomass takes high toll

Baby food contaminated with endocrine disruptor bisphenol A

Air to lung to DNA

Get your own vaccine

Inaction discourages positive change in industry

Hidden hunger?

There is a rush to cash in on micronutrient deficiency in India through fortification of food

Neo-addiction

Youngsters are getting hooked on flavoured e-cigarettes. Studies belie manufacturers’ claims