Half of world’s cities had PM2.5 levels above least-stringent WHO standards last decade: Report

India and Indonesia recorded the most severe increase in PM2.5 pollution while China saw the greatest improvements

Where will these railway track dwellers of Delhi live after eviction

Already living in filth, misery, disease and hunger, will they now be deprived of the only places they call home?

Hundreds of elephants are mysteriously dying in Botswana – a conservationist explains what we know

Poaching, revenge killing by locals and natural death do not seem to be the case. Could it then be disease? The information is still …

Human atlas: An initiative for holistic understanding of human biology

The project will collate and integrate molecular information on human tissues and organs that currently lie hidden in research articles

Study finds pathogens in wild snow leopards

Conducted in Mongolia, the research detected pathogens which, though they did not cause illness to the leopards, could make other wild cats ill; …

Ebola in Africa's Democratic Republic of Congo now has more than 2,000 infected

The current outbreak of the virus, beginning late July 2018, has claimed 1,346 lives in North Kivu and Ituri provinces until May.

Where COVID-19 has left Nigeria’s health system

Doyin Odubanjo, executive secretary of the Nigerian Academy of Science, on how the pandemic may affect the country’s ability to manage …

India’s mysterious diseases: Why are they happening?

The Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme is not working as it was conceptualised, say experts

Nations renew commitment for Minamata Convention at UNGA meet

18 countries sign the treaty at a high-level meeting in New York

In Short

Marauding Marburg

A viral disease that has no cure leaves a trail of death

NCDC survey on antibiotic use highlights need for properly monitoring critically important antimicrobials to mitigate AMR

A third of most commonly prescribed antibiotics were third generation cephalosporins, a class of critically important antimicrobials, …

Human Cell Atlas: Scientists map more than a million human cells to understand disease genesis, maturity

Research will help develop precise diagnostics, new treatments

Worried about Zika virus outbreak? That’s one more reason to be afraid of climate change

A warming world can widen reach and accelerate evolution of the virus

Treatment of sexually transmitted infections getting tougher due to antimicrobial resistance

World Health Organization has now issued new guideines for three such infections

Beauty in chemical

Mosquito mayhem

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Heart-warming discovery

The pandemic treaty can help the world brace for Disease X: WHO Director-General

This can bring all the experience, challenges faced by the world, and all the solutions onto one platform

First case of Lumpy Skin Disease documented in Cambodian wild bovids: Study

A male banteng or wild cattle was discovered with signs of the disease in September 2021 and died soon after; case highlights danger to wild …

Eluru mystery disease: What needs to be done

Lead contamination in water samples, nickel poisoning in milk and pesticides in vegetables are being investigated

Southeast Asia has a huge hepatitis burden—more than HIV and malaria combined

The region needs to enhance awareness and action to eliminate hepatitis, writes WHO regional director for southeast Asia s 

Scientists work towards inducing human hibernation to treat diseases

With this, suspended animation may become ubiquitous in modern medicine sometime in the near future

Alzheimer protein can be transmitted, says the study

Findings support hypothesis that beta-amyloid proteins were accidentally transmitted to patients through a now defunct medical treatment