Fruit bats source of Nipah virus, confirm ICMR scientists
Scientists from the Indian Council of Medicl Research reportedly confirmed the source of Nipah virus to be fruit bats
Chikungunya cases increase by 70% since 2013
Haryana saw an almost 100% spike in chikungunya cases from 2013 to 2017, according to the National Health Profile 2017
Diseases of a lifestyle: the transition to avoid
Can we not go from being poor but unhealthy to being rich and healthy? Why should we inherit diseases that can be junked?
A $996-million plan to eradicate deadly sheep and goat plague
At least 300 million families are likely to benefit by wiping out Peste des Petits Ruminants
The guests who came to kill
A new study suggests that the more the number of hosts a parasite feeds on, the more virulent it becomes
Pudgy babies have the edge
Recent studies indicate that the greater the weight of babies at birth, the less prone they are to heart disease during their riotous adult years
Is HIV harmless?
A group of scientists believe that HIV does not cause the dreaded Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Depressing fats
Low cholesterol helps prevent heart diseases but watch out, excessive loss might drive you towards suicide
Cowering behind lies
PETER B STONE presents an objective re-examination of the recent scare over the mad cow disease in Europe
The hanta phantom
Indian scientists suspect the presence of hantavirus - one of the. most dreaded killers of modern times - in Gujarat
The cholesterol dilemma
High levels of cholesterol in the blood can prove risky. But low levels could be even more dangerous. Well, high or low, cholesterol seems to …
Salt of the earth
IODINE DEFICIENCY DISORDERS IN LIVESTOCK: ECOLOGY AND ECONOMICS·Chandrakant S Pandav and A R Rao·Oxford University Press, New Delhi&…
Pressure play
If stress can reactivate latent viruses in mice, it can have the same effect in humans, say American scientists
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
CAMBODIA
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
Push to prevent cancer, strokes
Government wakes up to threat of non-communicable diseases
Pune: a contradictory picture
Bhopal: towards disaster zone
Delhi: the capital punishment