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Measles outbreaks show legal challenges of balancing personal rights and public good
Health officials must protect citizens from communicable diseases, but within the legal framework
Training health workers can help manage hypertension in villages
Early detection and management of hypertension is necessary to prevent complications, but shortfall of trained health workforce, particularly in …
South Africa to impose tax on sugary drinks from April 2018
South African parliament has passed a tax bill on carbonated drinks, which are now the third most commonly consumed beverage among very young …
Why we should test everyone's genes to predict disease
If a test could reveal the diseases you and your family might be more likely to get, would you get it?
New global standard adopted for making trade in plants and seeds safer
There is an increasing risk that pests carried by seeds could establish themselves and spread after planting
South Africa mulls tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, WHO welcomes move
This is one of the interventions proposed in the country’s strategy for 2015-2020 for prevention and control of obesity
Choking during Diwali
We burn over 40 recognised and other dangerous firecrackers, and all of them release toxic fumes into dense winter air
Japanese encephalitis continues to claim lives; Odisha, UP worst-hit
Hundreds of children are dying despite health officials claiming 100 per cent immunisation
Why we cannot ignore the poor
One thing is clear—the solutions must work for the poor, for them to work for the rich
World Heart Day: Cardiologists insist on 85 per cent pictorial warnings on tobacco products
The measure is also critical to meet the sustainable development goals
Born in May? Celebrate life, and good health
New study shows people born in October have the highest risk of diseases
Children worst hit by Nepal earthquake
According to UNICEF, at least 94,000 children are currently living in areas severely affected by the earthquake
‘India has not given due attention to food-borne infections’
Neelam Taneja is a professor at the Department of Medical Microbiology and in-charge of the enteric laboratory at Post Graduate Institute of …
Food habits getting worse around the world, warn studies
Researchers implicate the role of junk food industry in the changing food habits, particularly of the young generation
‘Adaptation’ and ‘mitigation’ can reduce impacts of global pandemics
Mitigation programmes can save nearly US $360 billion over the next 100 years, says new study
Lethal nanopowder
Researchers develop water-soluble carbon nanoparticles that arrest growth of mosquitoes beyond the larval stage
Check for chikungunya
In a first, Indian scientists develop vaccine against the disease
Ebb and flow of Kawasaki
Scientists say the spread of the mysterious disease may be linked to wind patterns
Encephalitis kills 22
Shut off
Court passes order against noise pollution
On the prowl
Insecticides are being used to control a virus in the US
White death
Data-wise
A database is imperative, yet is nowhere in sight
Goodbye Dolly
Both her birth and death stirred a raging debate. Dolly -- the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell -- was put to death on February 14, …