South Asia

Transfusion of stored blood can cause health problems

Vector control, drug infusion to check filariasis

Mosquito-specific pesticide in the offing?

Virus scare

Add telaprevir

Breastfeed longer

Cell towers, a health risk

Panel recommends restrictions on mobile phone towers

Get positive

Every problem has a solution

Anatomy of a poison

How, and where, does arsenic contaminate groundwater? The theories differ

Evil design

The extent of arsenic contamination now includes several states in India

In absolute denial

The government refuses to acknowledge that arsenic menace has a spread

The rise and fall of a chemical

DDT use goes back to World War II

WHO should take a holistic view

Though the global health organisation talks about chemical residues in food, it has not put special emphasis on pesticides. It is also silent on …

Political apathy, unplanned urbanisation make vector-borne diseases hard to control in India

Only 60 per cent of the total plan outlay for vector-borne diseases spent between 2007 to 2013; lack of co-ordination between ministries and …

Eat at your own risk

Junk food is bad for health. Its definition tells its inner story—food that is high on calories and saturated fat but low on nutrition. 

Science and Technology - Briefs

Mills pollute Uttaranchal hills

Open cast mining threatens Assam

Rising trend

Poor and the young are new victims of hypertension

More to junk food than meets the eye

Food processing industry takes a toll on country's health

Eating at home isn’t the in thing anymore. Hanging out is hip, especially in the mushrooming fast food joints that blister the skylines of …

Cockpit

In early December 2007, the country prided itself on providing the world with a road map to check the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5NI.…

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