A tale of two diseases

India is the shining star in the global battle to eradicate smallpox. It is also a branded villain as far as polio is concerned. How is it that …

Fowl Play

Is an avian flu pandemic imminent? As panic sends the world into a flutter, the Indian response still struggles to take wing, discover padmaparna …

Cycles congest roads: traffic cops

Kolkata police justify ban on non-motorised transport in the city

Horse mystery

Disclosure!

US pollution laws are inadequate, reveals EPA report

Budget 2023-24: Marginal rise in health budget not enough to keep up with inflation, experts say

Lesser allocation for health over the years also indicates that we need to go a long way to reach the target of spending 2.5 per cent of GDP for …

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

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

Dengue - reality bites

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

No breather in sight

Research reinforces theory that air pollution and smoking perpetrate asthma

Give us today our daily threat

Malaria, diarrhoeal diseases set to rise: IPCC report

Latest report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommends simple measures such as provision of clean water, sanitation and …

Malnourished Children

S K Kabra , associate professor in the paediatric pulmonology division of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi talks to Nidhi …

Science and Technology - Briefs

The COVID-19 pandemic turns 3-years-old

As the pandemic enters its fourth year, it is turning endemic

Dengue cases on the rise in India, Delhi records its 1st death

India recorded 63,280 dengue cases as of September 30, 2022

Children, adolescents who use e-cigarettes twice as likely to smoke conventional ones later: WHO

There is growing evidence that e-cigarettes affects brain development in adolescents

Bird flu spreads in West Africa; FAO alerts governments

Cameroon has already incurred a loss of $20 million due to the outbreak

Zika virus panic spreads

Twenty countries affected, some propose radical measures

Drug ban saves vultures

Painkiller given to animals was killing the birds

Worms in US apples

Hearty news

Whale of a problem

The slippery killer

It is going to require something more than just drugs to deal with HIV, say scientists

Ecstasy rashes