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How vulnerable are we to mental disorders?

Totally drug resistant TB: government in denial mode

Health ministry deputes team to Mumbai; says neither WHO nor tuberculosis control programme recognise TDR-TB

Into the ginger trap

Farmers from Kerala make big bucks by growing ginger in Karnataka but leave behind a trail of pollution

Vultures on death row

Human persecution is the main cause behind the high mortality of vultures in India

Suffering SARS

Is the crisis spawned by this new viral infection a failure of global health governance?

Caught off guard

SARS unravelled

The pathogen's path

Who are you?

Outbreak Outrage

There is a suspicion among African biomedics about the well projected linking of the continent's environment with the emergence of lethal viruses …

Between the lines

lpg, touted as the cleanest fuel option, is responsible for the release of high levels of nitrogen oxides and suspended particulate matter

Managing malaria

The case of malaria is an example of how excessive reliance on insecticides has damaged the environment and harmed public health

Cowering behind lies

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

Pune: a contradictory picture

Bhopal: towards disaster zone

Delhi: the capital punishment

Another plague in the offing

The rash of leptospirosis cases in Mumbai during the current monsoon points towards the gradual breakdown of health services in burgeoning …

Catching viruses

Brand new infectious maladies such as Jacobson's disease have begun to plague the world, despite better sanitation and medication in developed …

Caught by the horns

The closure of the Idgah abattoir gets under the skins of meat eaters in the Capital, who have turned into unwilling vegetarians

Particles in our body

Minute particles have a lethal effect on human health