Healthy lifestyle can overcome genetic risk of heart disease: study

Subjects who followed a low-fat diet reported higher levels of good cholesterol despite carrying a gene shown to increase risk of diabetes, shows …

Stung by Aedes

Incidence of dengue and chikungunya has grown dramatically in recent years. Let’s understand the impact of climate change on virus …

On air

Angry residents of Delhi flooded the chief minister's office with phone calls to protest against the withdrawal of a ban on polluting vehicles

Arsenic-free

Scientists in Sweden are propagating laterite treatment for the removal of arsenic from groundwater in the Bengal Delta plains

Coma after death

Child victims of a frayed medical service and a government programme gone wrong raise a mute question

Between the lines

lpg, touted as the cleanest fuel option, is responsible for the release of high levels of nitrogen oxides and suspended particulate matter

"Asthma afflicts almost every house in Gorai"

Pramod N Bagud (PNB), a pediatrician, and Manoj K Ved (mkv), a general physician, practise in Gorai, an area infamous for a 15-hectare dumpsite …

Researchers find more reasons to quit smoking

Death due to renal failure and intestinal ischemia associated with smoking

Every other elderly in urban India has hypertension: Health ministry report

The prevalance was higher in women than men among senior citizens

Smog havoc

Chile choked

Pollution forces authorities to impose strict measures in Chile

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Shaken and stirred

Smoke from world’s worsening wildfires is killing more than 33,000 people every year

Japan accounted for the highest number of annual deaths, at 7,000, in its 47 cities; the study was carried out in 749 cities across 43 …

Dengue strikes early yet again

Dengue is known to spread after monsoon, but in the past couple of years, cases of the disease have been recorded in summer as well. This year …

More than 12 million deaths due to unhealthy environment in 2012, says WHO

One in every four deaths across the world can be attributed to environment-related factors

Managing malaria

The case of malaria is an example of how excessive reliance on insecticides has damaged the environment and harmed public health

Progress against a neglected tropical disease in east Africa is under threat

Kalaazar is neglected because it is a disease of poverty

India has highest rate of antibiotic resistance, says study

Low- and middle-income countries report the highest increase in antibiotic resistance

World TB Day: More men than women reported infection among India’s elderly

The prevalence percentage among men is almost double that among women.

Killer on the prowl

Heart of the matter

Researchers have focussed on folic acid as a potential heart cure

Tap to know how well you are

Trend of using health-monitoring apps on smartphones catches up in India

A diet for the heart

Fungi disarmed