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

India develops first indigenous vaccine to treat bloody dysentry

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

Toxic aftermath

Pollution of the past haunts our present

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

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

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

Post-floods, Orissa's tribal districts suffer cholera outbreak

Diarrhoea in children under 5 more prevalent in rural India: NFHS-5

Bihar reported the highest prevalence of the disease  

Under the weather

Scientists say a change in temperature could play a role in spreading childhood diarrhoea

Seven die of cholera in Odisha’s Rayagada in a fortnight

The outbreak started on July 7 & spread to other districts

Science and Technology - Briefs

Malnutrition count up in Orissa

GASTRO-ENTERMS DEATHS

Progress in measles elimination has got stalled, says WHO

Developing countries mostly hit. More than 145,000 people died of the disease in 2013