Fatal treatment

A burning problem

The foot-and-mouth scare assumes alarming proportions in the UK

A heart condition

RISKY IMPORT

Preventive measure

Twist in a clogged tale

A plastic wire can remove life-threatening brain blood clots

Mapping the fission yeast

Perseverance pays

Learning from Lorenzo's oil

Human killer strain

One more shot

Chinese to mass produce new vaccine against avian flu

A parasite's pantomime

Nano-sensor

New tool to detect viruses quickly at low cost

What is ‘noma’, the latest addition to WHO’s list of neglected tropical diseases

The severe gangrenous disease of mouth and face has 90% mortality rate and is associated with extreme poverty, malnutrition

Battered Lungs

Lung cancer is a result of the deadly cocktail of smoking, air pollution and poverty

Today's Plague

Some of the most common cancers in India are directly linked to poverty

Killer with a BIAS

There is overwhelming evidence that some of the common cancers target the poor

In distress

Hair pollution hits Karnataka

Therapeutic smoke

Dangers of using biofuel for cooking

Every breath you take

Pollutants in the air damage more than the lungs, warn health experts

National plan on non-communicable diseases

High BP, tobacco are top killers

Study on global disease burden shows infectious diseases are declining

Less species, more diseases

Researchers blame increased human population

Bangalore besieged

Respiratory problems increase with rise in air pollution in Bangalore

Penetrating evidence

Air pollution causes genetic damage among Kolkata residents