One in four Indians above 30 risks dying of lifestyle diseases: WHO

Report shows India has no multi-pronged plan to reduce NCDs or a proper monitoring and surveillance system

Now a papaya-clay filter

The hybrid clay filter could be the cost-effective answer to water purification

Breathing poison

Counteractive

Do mosquito repellents have adverse health effects?

Arsenic-free

Scientists in Sweden are propagating laterite treatment for the removal of arsenic from groundwater in the Bengal Delta plains

Coma after death

Child victims of a frayed medical service and a government programme gone wrong raise a mute question

Feud settled

Sapping structures

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Nanoparticle safety under scanner

Are nanomaterials safe?

"Asthma afflicts almost every house in Gorai"

Pramod N Bagud (PNB), a pediatrician, and Manoj K Ved (mkv), a general physician, practise in Gorai, an area infamous for a 15-hectare dumpsite …

And the frog survived

Konkan village rejects mining plan

Officials say villagers are not final arbiters

Researchers find more reasons to quit smoking

Death due to renal failure and intestinal ischemia associated with smoking

Smog havoc

Chile choked

Pollution forces authorities to impose strict measures in Chile

CAMBODIA

Shaken and stirred

Tap to know how well you are

Trend of using health-monitoring apps on smartphones catches up in India

A diet for the heart

Fungi disarmed

Sugary eyes tell it all

The guests who came to kill

A new study suggests that the more the number of hosts a parasite feeds on, the more virulent it becomes

Oriental skin therapy

Pudgy babies have the edge

Recent studies indicate that the greater the weight of babies at birth, the less prone they are to heart disease during their riotous adult years