Chhattisgarh unsure of disease outbreak

Scores died of water-borne disease in Chhattisgarh, even as state government failed to identify the cause

Better sanitation key to improving children's health: World Bank report

It can help reduce diarrhoea prevalence by 47 per cent among children

Rice remedy

Llama antibody makes rice a weapon against rotavirus

Crunch metals cure diarrhoea

What next?

Now a papaya-clay filter

The hybrid clay filter could be the cost-effective answer to water purification

Forest medicines

New drug for cancer

World Health Day to focus on food safety this year

About 306 outbreaks of food poisoning and 344 outbreaks of diarrhoea were reported between 2011 and 2014

India develops first indigenous vaccine to treat bloody dysentry

Shigellosis is recognised as a disease mainly affecting Asian and African nations

Climate change: More Tamil Nadu children at diarrhoea risk

The relation between warmer and wetter weather and diarrhoea has been well established in other parts of the world

Toxic aftermath

Pollution of the past haunts our present

Indian scientists working to unravel rare type of diarrhoea

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science are developing a novel transgenic mouse which will express the human GUCY2C protein, a receptor for …

Suspected cholera outbreak in Gujarat

Five deaths and over 200 cases of diarrhoea reported in five days

Policy draft backs new vaccines

Health experts say new vaccines not essential enough to be in the national programme

India, the antibiotic capital of the world

Antibiotics are often used to treat diarrhoea and upper respiratory tract infections, which can be reduced by improving sanitation and personal …

South Asian countries give sanitation charter to SAARC

MPs launched sanitation campaign in Kathmandu to addresses sanitation woes

Oceanic treasures

Marine life is a source for future medicines

Height of inequality

Standard of living determines a child's height

Zinc supplements don't help healthy children

Victims of climate change: This year, 135 people may die every day due to drought in Somalia

Consecutive years of failed rains may have caused this longest, most severe drought in the country’s history

Growing up stunted

Stunting, which reflects chronic undernutrition, is very high among tribal children in Madhya Pradesh. They can get nutritive foods from forests, …

An uphill task

Sustainability still a long way off, says Worldwatch

Rotavirus vaccine on the anvil

But will it be effective against the huge number of strains found in India?

Phailin fallout: people face acute drinking water shortage

200 people in Ganjam get diarrhoea after drinking contaminated water