Anticipating strokes

Will you suffer a heart failure or a paralytic stroke? A laboratory test can tell you years before it happens and help you avert it

Temperamental disease

Patients who are hypertensive inside a doctor's clinic are more likely to develop heart diseases

Aye for an eye

Transplanting light-sensitive cells of aborted human foetuses into retinas of blind adults can enable them to see again

A pinch of salt, anyone?

If you are health-conscious, you will politely decline the offer. But what do the experts have to say?

Cutting clots

These clot busters can be an enormous help to medical science, helping those prone to vascular diseases

Fine air particles linked with high blood pressure among teen Londoners: Study

The association was found to be stronger in girls

Fabric filter

Cotton sari filtration, heating kill most bacteria in water

Choking link

Ultrafine pollution particles can penetrate very deep into the lungs

Contaminated water

Suffocating Kolkata

Air pollution has put the city of joy on top of the lung cancer map in the country

Bytes

SARS-CoV-2 changes classic feature of virus becoming endemic: Shahid Jameel

Shahid Jameel, former head of the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium, speaks to DTE about how a virus mutates, the trajectory of COVID-19,…

New diseases are the result of environmental degradation

After being instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, D A Henderson , director, Centre for Civilian Biodefence, Johns Hopkins University, USA,…

Big promises to curb hypertension, but no funds

India does not have sufficient funds or plan to eradicate non-communicable diseases

South-east Asia resolves to combat non-communicable diseases

Countries target to reduce mortality from lifestyle diseases by a quarter by 2025

Diabetes among senior citizens more prevalent in urban India: LASI report

11.5% Indians above 45 years have high blood sugar

Fever stalks UP

Battling Japanese encephalitis virus, Gorakhpur now has a new enemy: enterovirus

Particles in our body

Minute particles have a lethal effect on human health

Clean measures

Kathmandu's growing air pollution forces authorities to enforce strict regulations

A time-bomb ticking

Urbanised problem

Suburban lifestyle is the cause behind numerous diseases, research authenticates

Valid excuse

Death is in the air

Air quality in Indian cities has never been worse. More and more people are dying in urban India due to high levels of pollutants in the air. The …

Lethal breath

After respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, air pollution now shows a definitive link with strokes

Relevance to India

While countries with comparatively low particulate pollution are concerned, the Indian administration is complacent