Beijing's Green Olympics

A black countdown in West Bengal, India

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Science & Technology - Briefs

World Zoonoses Day: Changing our relationship with animals to avoid another pandemic

Growing severity of COVID-19 is compelling us to re-think ways to reduce transmission risk of emerging diseases from animals to humans

Elderly & lonely

India has more elderly people than ever before. Most of them have little social security and cannot afford healthcare. While the government seems …

Great Man's distortion

How we came to fear saturated fat

US authority approves more efficacious hepatitis C drug

Sofosbuvir's prohibitive cost will put it out of reach of most patients in developing countries, including India

Science & Technology - Briefs

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Bad feed

New lands of the free

New lands of the fat?

Land of the Free

Vitamin D complex

When sunlight falls on the skin, it forms an essential nutrient, vitamin D. For people in India, which has an average of 300 clear sunny days in …

Stench in my backyard

As Kerala cities dump their waste in the countryside, people in the villages hit back. An unresolved civic problem of decades compounded by …

The new obesity

A growing number of people are unable to shed those extra pounds despite strict diet regimes and long hours of workout. Evidence shows that the …

Is chemical the culprit?

Scientists in Bihar find a plausible link between pesticides and breast cancer

India is 20 yrs behind in managing non-communicable diseases, shows survey

Pilot assessment in Shimla and Udaipur shows high prevalence of hypertension, diabetes and poor health infrastructure

Diabetes on the rise in India

White paper at national summit emphasises capacity building, training of healthcare workers

To prevent overkill

Medicinal values of marine life make it vulnerable to overexploitation. But it is now possible to artificially produce such qualities

Human transit evidence of bird flu found in Indonesia

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India's nutritional puzzle

From the maw of the Indian state there has emerged an undigested piece of development cake: nutritionally speaking, people's diets are out of …

Most Central Asian countries have broken food safety control systems, finds paper

Severe food safety challenges in CAREC member countries; overlaps in mandates and institutional conflicts in China

Wake up and smell the air