This paper mill in Punjab is causing cancer, loss of vision

Residents allege that the Kuantum pulp and paper mill in Saila Khurd, the only industry in the block for 30 years, is responsible for their …

Hazards of sugar may be under reported

The sugar industry sponsered a study on coronary heart disease which downplayed sugar as a risk factor

Scientists announce final trial results of world’s most advanced malaria vaccine

Vaccine can prevent a substantial number of cases of clinical malaria, especially in areas of high transmission rates

Should we treat chronic disease patients only if they agree to lifestyle monitoring?

The challenge of a rapidly increasing health care budget has prompted a call for “lifestyle rationing” of medical help to people who …

Clinical trials for first dengue treatment could start within a year

The dengue virus poses a grave risk to people in tropical and sub-tropical countries with an estimated 400 million getting infected globally each year

Bitter is better

Eating bitter food can help cure repiratory diseases

10-minute typhoid test

New technique can also detect the disease in early stages

Cancerous spread

Double whammy

Fresh outbreak of SARS, avian flu

Global aid on sanitation is southward bound

Vultures on death row

Human persecution is the main cause behind the high mortality of vultures in India

Frontier guards

Invaded and ravaged by germs and pathogens every moment of its existence, the human body has developed its own lines of defence. Among the lesser …

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भारतीय वैज्ञानिकों ने पशुओं में होने वाले खुरपका व मुंहपका रोग के विषाणु के फैलने के लिए जिम्मेदार आनुवांशिक और पारिस्थितिकी कारकों का पता ...

Better education links to good heart health

The study explored the association between education and wealth on one hand and cardiovascular diseases and mortality due to them on the other

World Malaria Day: Can vaccination prevent malaria from spreading?

Malawi starts the first-ever pilot project to immunise children against malaria

Meet Mesentery, the newest occupant of your gut

The anatomic description that had been laid down over 100 years of anatomy was incorrect

5 Facts About The Zika Virus

The new wretched virus in the block is the Zika Virus and it has been causing havoc across the world. Televisions, newspapers and the social …

Musicians don’t age

Music>> Hearing • Canada

Viral fatigue

A shot for the heart

Network

Woes of the world

It is mostly the preventable diseases which lead to fatal maladies due to negligence that hold our lives in stake, reveals the 1994 WHO report

Vibrating signals

A new system will allow the hearing-impaired to respond to vibrations and alert them about incoming calls

Better looking

Exploding the myth

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