Still reeling

New SARS cases in China

Africans likely to live longer now; but will they live healthier?

The WHO said in a statement released August 4 that healthy life expectancy in its African region had increased on average by 10 years per person …

More Indians were diagnosed with hypertension than diabetes in 2017

Latest data from the National Health Profile 2017 confirms a previous study which said that hypertension is a bigger concern than diabetes in India

Most disease maps unreliable

Disease maps help capture distribution of pathogens and their transmission intensity. An international team of researchers has reviewed 355 of …

Mote monitor

A new instrument to detect tiny polluting particles that vehicles emit

MARINE MALADY

Buffalo blight

Feeding in asthma

Food that one finds allergic can cause problems in the respiratory tract according to a group of scientists inspecting children with breathing …

Drug overkill

Irrational drug prescriptions are giving rise to drug-resistant bacteria

ECO COURT

Quake sickness

Quest for clean air

Bad for wildlife, bad for people

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 …

Swine flu tamed?

H1N1 cases on the rise but doctors say the strain is behaving like seasonal flu

Rare Disease Day: 475 million across the world affected by rare diseases, says study

Rare Disease Day is observed on February 29

New cholesterol study may lead you to ask: Pass the eggs, or pass on the eggs?

A recent study examined the association between dietary cholesterol or egg consumption with cardiovascular disease and all causes of mortality

India’s neglected tropical diseases

India experiences the world’s largest burden of at least 11 major non-communicable diseases

Dengue risk: notices sent to President's estate, hospitals over mosquito breeding

New Delhi Municipal Council has so far issued 3,337 notices and 146 challans this season

Humans susceptible to viral strains borne by chimpanzee

SIV strains mutate upon entering cells to overcome human-specific barriers to infection

Blueprint to tackle non-communicable diseases released

It has a list of good practices and gives structure to an otherwise unregulated field

Cops compensated

Ecological nightmare

EGYPT

CAMEROON