Fruit bats source of Nipah virus, confirm ICMR scientists

Scientists from the Indian Council of Medicl Research reportedly confirmed the source of Nipah virus to be fruit bats

Chikungunya cases increase by 70% since 2013

Haryana saw an almost 100% spike in chikungunya cases from 2013 to 2017, according to the National Health Profile 2017

Diseases of a lifestyle: the transition to avoid

Can we not go from being poor but unhealthy to being rich and healthy? Why should we inherit diseases that can be junked? 

A $996-million plan to eradicate deadly sheep and goat plague

At least 300 million families are likely to benefit by wiping out Peste des Petits Ruminants

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

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

Is HIV harmless?

A group of scientists believe that HIV does not cause the dreaded Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Depressing fats

Low cholesterol helps prevent heart diseases but watch out, excessive loss might drive you towards suicide

Cowering behind lies

PETER B STONE presents an objective re-examination of the recent scare over the mad cow disease in Europe

The hanta phantom

Indian scientists suspect the presence of hantavirus - one of the. most dreaded killers of modern times - in Gujarat

The cholesterol dilemma

High levels of cholesterol in the blood can prove risky. But low levels could be even more dangerous. Well, high or low, cholesterol seems to …

Salt of the earth

IODINE DEFICIENCY DISORDERS IN LIVESTOCK: ECOLOGY AND ECONOMICS·Chandrakant S Pandav and A R Rao·Oxford University Press, New Delhi&…

Pressure play

If stress can reactivate latent viruses in mice, it can have the same effect in humans, say American scientists

Every other elderly in urban India has hypertension: Health ministry report

The prevalance was higher in women than men among senior citizens

Smog havoc

Chile choked

Pollution forces authorities to impose strict measures in Chile

CAMBODIA

Smoke from world’s worsening wildfires is killing more than 33,000 people every year

Japan accounted for the highest number of annual deaths, at 7,000, in its 47 cities; the study was carried out in 749 cities across 43 …

Dengue strikes early yet again

Dengue is known to spread after monsoon, but in the past couple of years, cases of the disease have been recorded in summer as well. This year …

More than 12 million deaths due to unhealthy environment in 2012, says WHO

One in every four deaths across the world can be attributed to environment-related factors

Managing malaria

The case of malaria is an example of how excessive reliance on insecticides has damaged the environment and harmed public health

Push to prevent cancer, strokes

Government wakes up to threat of non-communicable diseases

Pune: a contradictory picture

Bhopal: towards disaster zone

Delhi: the capital punishment