'Ebola is the result of environmental degradation'

Peter Hotez is the co-founder of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases that provides access to essential medicines for millions of …

Plain talk about crap

Book>> The Big Necessity, The Unmentionable World Of Human Waste And Why It Matters • by Rose George • Metropolitan Books • …

Return of the smog

Winter, lack of rainfall and air pollution have made the smog in Delhi even more dangerous

Clean payment

A cattle crisis

The food-and-mouth disease spreads panic across the world and raises several questions about livestock culling

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Iron in particulate matter damages lungs

Asia's sooty air

WHO urges governments to increase investment to tackle neglected tropical diseases

Increased measures can improve the health and well-being of more than 1.5 billion people, says UN body

Municipality blamed for Delhi water poisoning

Municipal authorities in Delhi deny they were responsible for the deaths of eight people caused by contaminated water

EPIDEMIC HAVOC

Global fund for research

Paradox, at the altitude

Mild asthma gets better at higher altitudes

Killing pollution

Tailpipe row

Avian havoc

Bird flu cases soaring in Vietnam

Saving papaya

Business in typhoid

WHO guide on clean indoor air

Grafting proteins

Giving theheart a hand

Sunbathers beware

Giving the art of mimicry a new meaning

In order to propagate its own species, a parasitic fungus attacks mustard plants and transforms their leaves, making them look like flowers of …

Smoke gets in your eyes - and forms cataracts

The oxidising property of cigarette and chulha smoke is one of the factors being linked by researchers to the formation of eye cataract.

Matters of the heart