HEALTH IN PERIL

Selling diarrhoea

Rice formulation treats better

Bihar's rural Nightingales

Healthcare receives a boost in starkly poor villages

Monsoon deaths

DEATH BY WATER

On the way out

Cry, baby, cry

Childish foibles

Infected food and unhygienic feeding habits lead to a high incidence of infantile diarrhoea

Not enough to drink

Germ warfare

Oral vaccines could soon be available for rotavirus infection -- a major cause of diarrhoea

Blame it on superstitions

Energising solutions

An improved ORS formulation would not only cure dehydration but even diarrhoea and cholera

Lake Manchar is dead

Pakistan's largest freshwater lake is drowned by effluents

Under attack

New York city battles with E coli bacteria

New remedy

Researchers have come up with a new medication for diarrhoea

Magic drop

Easy to administer oral diarrhoea vaccine tested in Bangladesh

Never let an idea die

Modern science backs Ayurveda on ginger’s gut-cleansing call

RASH OF EPIDEMICS

RESPIRATORY ILLNESS

Jaundice arrives early

Ulcerous!

A bacterium found in water wells causes ulcers

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