Change for the worse

Cancer could result from a disease -countering trick gone wrong

Cure for ebola

FUDGING FIGURES

CHINA

Canines too fall prey

Encephalitis returns to haunt Assam

Deer disease

Successful fighting

Fowl play

Usage of antibiotics in farm animals could be making human microbes drug-resistant

Fertility factor

Virus alert

Anthrax suspected

In Short

Watch where you peck

South Asia

Cowering behind lies

PETER B STONE presents an objective re-examination of the recent scare over the mad cow disease in Europe

Highlights of 2016 UNICEF report on the state of the world's children

The UNICEF report, titled The State of the World's Children 2016, makes startling revelations on prevalence of inequity in child health, …

Push to prevent cancer, strokes

Government wakes up to threat of non-communicable diseases

Food allergies on the rise

Increase in number of cases reported across the world; prevalence rate in India could be 3 per cent

Bureaucracy has no idea about health care trends

T Jacob John , professor of virology and paediatrics at Christian Medical College, Vellore, speaks to Raj Kishor Khaware on the state of health …

Official contamination

Sudden death

A mystery disease kills 35 people in Siliguri

US comes clean

Diesel becomes a dirty word in the official US environmental lexicon

Re-examined

Air pollutants alone may cause acute asthma attacks

Rash of ailments

Followed by new scheme to track diseases