Living with smokers is as bad as living in polluted cities

Passive smoking can expose non-smokers to three times the officially recommended levels of fine particulate matter

Horse mystery

Dengue - reality bites

The millions affected have many to curse -- the mosquitoes, officials and the scientific communityby Ritu Gupta

Disclosure!

US pollution laws are inadequate, reveals EPA report

The dangers of living by the main road

In Short

Post-floods, Orissa's tribal districts suffer cholera outbreak

Sponsored blight?

Another monsoon. The season of suffering in India's flood plains. And of blaming upstream people for floods. Is there an end to this

First ever national survey shows the extent of South Africa’s TB problem

In 2019, 58,000 people died of TB in South Africa and 1.4 million people died from TB globally

Diarrhoea in children under 5 more prevalent in rural India: NFHS-5

Bihar reported the highest prevalence of the disease  

यूरोप, चीन, अमेरिका और जापान में भी फैल सकता है जीका वायरस

ठन्डे इलाकों में बढ़ता तापमान, जलवायु को जीका वायरस के फैलने के अनुकूल बना रहा है|

अफ्रीका की 67 फीसदी आबादी में है विटामिन डी की कमी

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‘COVID-19 could have started 3-4 months before December in China’

Down To Earth speaks to Maureen Miller, infectious disease epidemiologist and medical anthropologist about the possible origins of the novel …

इम्यून सिस्टम से बचने के लिए क्या तकनीक अपनाता है मलेरिया परजीवी 'प्लास्मोडियम फैल्सीपेरम'

वैज्ञानिकों ने इस गुत्थी को सुलझा लेने का दावा किया है कि किस तरह मलेरिया परजीवी 'प्लास्मोडियम फैल्सीपेरम' इम्यून सिस्टम को चकमा देने में ...

प्रदूषण के चलते बदल रही है बच्चों के मस्तिष्क की संरचना

एक अध्ययन के मुताबिक, बच्चे जन्म के समय अधिक प्रदूषित इलाकों में रहते हैं, उनके दिमाग में ग्रे मैटर और कॉर्टिकल की मोटाई सामान्य ...

विटामिन-बी12 के बेहतर उपयोग में मददगार हो सकता है पादप अर्क

भारतीय शोधकर्ताओं ने अब एक ऐसे पादप अर्क की पहचान की है जो बी12 के अवशोषण में वृद्धि करके दवा के प्रभाव को बढ़ा ...

कीटनाशकों से बढ़ जाता है हृदय रोग व स्ट्रोक का खतरा: अध्ययन

अमेरिका में हुए अध्ययन में पाया गया कि जो लोग कीटनाशकों का इस्तेमाल करते हैं, उनमें हृदय रोग व स्ट्रोक का खतरा अधिक होता ...

US doctors customise drug to treat girl with rare genetic disease

The drug Milasen was designed to treat only Mila Makovec suffering from a form of Batten disease — a rare, fatal and inherited disorder …

Bihar braces for dengue outbreak after floods, cases cross 1,100 mark

Patna is worst hit as several areas are still water logged and serve as breeding grounds for mosquitoes

Did Pentagon weaponise ticks: US Congress orders probe

US Department of Defense asked to provide information on whether it accidentally or deliberately released disease-causing ticks into the environment

Dual drug delivery system may make heart stents safer

A group of Indian researchers has developed a dual drug delivery therapy to minimise such stent-related complications

World Malaria Day: ‘If we don’t become complacent, we can eliminate malaria like 1965’

PL Joshi, former head of National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme talks to Down To Earth about how malaria vaccination, surveillance and …

World Malaria Day: More cases in states less prone to disease

While the total number of cases in India declined in 2018, there was a bump in less susceptible states like Uttar Pradesh 

The imminent threat of celiac disease in India

Panel discussion sheds light on prevalence of celiac disease in India, which has increased four folds since the 1960s

Will this be the fourth consecutive warm winter?

Longer monsoon spell, warm winter lengthen mosquito-borne disease outbreaks across India