Dengue grips Delhi: virus strain circulating this year more deadly

Serotype DENV 2 has returned after a gap of a few years, which could be a reason for higher number of cases this year

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COVID-19 changes platelets, says study. Why this is harmful

Altering blood platelets can raise risk of building up life-threatening clots

Ban on stem cell patents which involve destroying human embryos

Researchers call it regressive step, ethicists happy

Meaty tales of vegetarian India

Indians are eating more meat and enjoying it. Higher incomes, global food chains and a vast population of young people indifferent to religious …

Trimming fats

The US is determined to eliminate trans fatty acids from its food. Can India do the same?

Kicking up a stink

Waste pickers in Pune force corporates and the municipality to address safe disposal of sanitary napkins

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Call to make healthy choices available and affordable

Health experts lash out at food industry for putting public health at risk

DTE Reportage

'Lifestyle' diseases spur UN to act

MERS virus may spread to India post Haj

Researchers predict spread of acute respiratory syndrome that originated in the Middle East by studying population movements; Mumbai, Kozhikode …

Time to wake up to threat of NCDs

As the UN begins its meeting to devise strategies to tackle NCDs, Indian public health activists say it was a wake-up call for the health …

Non-communicable diseases: The unrecognised public health threat

Health is rarely the topic of discussion at the UN general assembly. But starting September 19, the UN began a high-level meeting to debate a …

Think before you drink

Studies confirm energy drinks like Red Bull can be unsafe. India yet to limit their caffeine content

Troubled Beautiful Minds

They are there—each residential area has its mentally disturbed people; each family has anecdotes of crazy relatives. Nobody wants to …

How vulnerable are we to mental disorders?

Pangolin scale seizures jumped 10 times between 2014 and 2018: UN report

Pangolins have, recently, been vilified because of reports that linked them to the emergence of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes …

Mr Modi, Wish us a Happy Environment Day

Totally drug resistant TB: government in denial mode

Health ministry deputes team to Mumbai; says neither WHO nor tuberculosis control programme recognise TDR-TB

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