The dangers of living by the main road

In Short

Cycles congest roads: traffic cops

Kolkata police justify ban on non-motorised transport in the city

Horse mystery

Disclosure!

US pollution laws are inadequate, reveals EPA report

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

Budget 2023-24: Marginal rise in health budget not enough to keep up with inflation, experts say

Lesser allocation for health over the years also indicates that we need to go a long way to reach the target of spending 2.5 per cent of GDP for …

Living with smokers is as bad as living in polluted cities

Passive smoking can expose non-smokers to three times the officially recommended levels of fine particulate matter

Sponsored blight?

Another monsoon. The season of suffering in India's flood plains. And of blaming upstream people for floods. Is there an end to this

Dengue - reality bites

The millions affected have many to curse -- the mosquitoes, officials and the scientific communityby Ritu Gupta

Microplastics and nanoplastics are an emerging threat to cardiovascular health

Their small size enables easy absorption & distribution, allowing them to penetrate highly vascularised organs like the heart

Tackling AMR: For LMICs, prevention is the best solution, say experts at CSE's international workshop

Recommendations from workshop to inform High-Level Meeting on AMR scheduled at UN General Assembly later this year

The worst of Nagaland’s African swine fever outbreak may be over, say officials

No fresh cases have been reported in two weeks in the state

Global Diabetes Compact to increase access to testing, treatment: WHO

About half of all adults with type 2 diabetes remain undiagnosed

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

Bihar reported the highest prevalence of the disease  

Odisha carries a huge burden of snakebite deaths — but it is avoidable

Right education, access to antivenoms and effective governance need of the hour

Friendly foe

The flip side of a pest control bug

Technocure

Dismal scenario

Kenya

Three is company!

A fertility treatment spawns babies with the DNA of three parents, instead of two

Malaria’s defiant act

Drug-resistant malaria is spreading; India and Bangladesh could be hit soon

Simply Put: Editing out the problem

Who is cooking our recipe books?

A subtle marketing drive is changing our food habits and we do not even know it

Twice bitten, not yet shy

The gross mismanagement of our city’s environment is making us sick