Bytes

Why India remains malnourished

Despite a fast-growing economy and the largest anti-malnutrition programme, India has the world’s worst level of child malnutrition. The …

Impact of environment on health: Africa adopts strategy for better synergy between sectors

New strategy also integrates recommendations for healthy recovery from COVID-19 pandemic

Ebola unleashed

The deadly virus had long confined itself to the backwoods of Africa. Increasing deforestation has led to its frequent emergence as epidemics

Cipla's audacious move

Why generics maker Cipla has asked government to revoke Novartis patent on respiratory ailment drug

How pure are their claims?

Market for water purifiers booms, but consumers cannot be sure of quality in absence of regulations

Science and Technology - Briefs

Unique replacement for fuelwood in Nagaland

Kitchen strike for toilets

Women of a Maharashtra hamlet give husbands an ultimatum-build toilets or go without food

Breathing uneasy

Threat from occupational exposure to pollutants, especially to young children and pregnant women, is growing rapidly. There is no time for …

Breathing easy

A hundred medicines, a dozen therapies but no cure, that is the story of asthma treatment world wide. Complementary medicine fill the vacuum

Genetically changed mosquitoes could transform Africa’s long fight against malaria

COVID-19: J&J vaccine can heighten risk of rare neurological condition

The Guillain-Barré syndrome can cause muscle weakness and paralysis.

Heart-friendly

Naturally occurring trans fats not harmful

Cancer overtakes heart ailments as leading cause of death in 10 European nations

Compared to cancer, cardio treatments have improved much more, say experts

Rains & mosquito-breeding: How flooded cities become hotbeds for long-term public health hazards

Mosquitoes laying eggs that remain dormant until the next rainy season can lead to a resurgence of diseases, presenting a continuous cycle of …

Infectious diseases bigger global threat than climate change: World Economic Forum report

5 of the top 10 risks in terms of impact and likelihood are, however, all environmental

World Health Assembly: health issues of women, children and elderly in focus

Health facilities available for older people are unequally distributed across the world

Artemisinin-resistant malaria parasites can infect African mosquitoes, says study

This could have dreadful consequences for Africa, a continent vulnerable to malaria

Nano fix

Autoclave uses nanoparticles, sunlight to sterilise hospital equipment

Avoid the din

Constant traffic noise can increase risk of heart attack

No home, no fungus

Deforestation protects some frogs from a deadly infection

Holy river?

Even untreated sewage water in Norway is cleaner than the water flowing in the Ganga

Genes and dreams

Scientists are on the breakthrough of better malaria drugs

Drugged

When market forces determine drugs development, neglected diseases take a back-seat