Advocacy groups oppose Coca-Cola’s Rio Olympics sponsorship

A study claims that sugar-sweetened beverages led to around 180,000 deaths globally in 2010

Yellow fever grips DRC, Angola

More than 11 million doses of the yellow fever vaccine have been sent to Angola since February this year and more than 2 million to DRC

Deadly livestock disease continues to spread across world

Georgia recently reported its first-ever case of ovine rinderpest, also known as ovine rinderpest, while a new outbreak has occurred in the Maldives

Pollution in your city: Is wearing a mask the solution?

Originally intended to safeguard industrial and health workers, masks have now emerged as people's defence mechanism against air pollution

Mosquito matters

The blood-sucking pest is altering itself with changing environment. But studies on it are few and far between

Fever still a mystery

Authorities yet to identify cause of deadly disease prevalent in Muzaffarpur for a decade

Surviving Ebola

Whether you will survive an Ebola infection or not depends on the immune response of your body, not on the level of infection

Science and Technology - Briefs

Kitchen strike for toilets

Women of a Maharashtra hamlet give husbands an ultimatum-build toilets or go without food

Breathing uneasy

Threat from occupational exposure to pollutants, especially to young children and pregnant women, is growing rapidly. There is no time for …

Breathing easy

A hundred medicines, a dozen therapies but no cure, that is the story of asthma treatment world wide. Complementary medicine fill the vacuum

Science and Technology - Briefs

Science and Technology - Briefs

Gasping millions

Asthma, the bane of modern life, stalks the young ones and the affluent. It will strike 32 million people in India by 2010. The silent strangler …

World’s first vaccine for honeybees gets conditional nod in US

Bacterial disease American foulbrood is fatal, routinely ravages colonies

The juicy green star fruit always find its way to the vendor’s basket

A one-stop medicine shop, amrakh can be the wow factor in homemade pickles and chutneys

What drives pesticide use

Study says land simplification has no link to use of pesticide

Few steps away from disaster

Bird flu virus can be transmitted from humans to humans

How wind lures mosquitoes

Spread of malaria depends on the direction of wind

How effective are sanitisers?

Studies say hand sanitisers inefficient in removing norovirus. Can cause bowel disorder

Retina visuals capture heart

Pollution narrows arteries, raises risk of heart diseases

Unsafe water

Heartache tonight

Succumb to the temptation

Chocolates could hold the key to a healthy, long life

Wash your hands, doc