Why we should test everyone's genes to predict disease

If a test could reveal the diseases you and your family might be more likely to get, would you get it?

New global standard adopted for making trade in plants and seeds safer

There is an increasing risk that pests carried by seeds could establish themselves and spread after planting

South Africa mulls tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, WHO welcomes move

This is one of the interventions proposed in the country’s strategy for 2015-2020 for prevention and control of obesity

Choking during Diwali

We burn over 40 recognised and other dangerous firecrackers, and all of them release toxic fumes into dense winter air

Japanese encephalitis continues to claim lives; Odisha, UP worst-hit

Hundreds of children are dying despite health officials claiming 100 per cent immunisation

Why we cannot ignore the poor

One thing is clear—the solutions must work for the poor, for them to work for the rich

World Heart Day: Cardiologists insist on 85 per cent pictorial warnings on tobacco products

The measure is also critical to meet the sustainable development goals 

Born in May? Celebrate life, and good health

New study shows people born in October have the highest risk of diseases

Children worst hit by Nepal earthquake

According to UNICEF, at least 94,000 children are currently living in areas severely affected by the earthquake

‘India has not given due attention to food-borne infections’

Neelam Taneja is a professor at the Department of Medical Microbiology and in-charge of the enteric laboratory at Post Graduate Institute of …

Food habits getting worse around the world, warn studies

Researchers implicate the role of junk food industry in the changing food habits, particularly of the young generation

‘Adaptation’ and ‘mitigation’ can reduce impacts of global pandemics

Mitigation programmes can save nearly US $360 billion over the next 100 years, says new study

Lethal nanopowder

Researchers develop water-soluble carbon nanoparticles that arrest growth of mosquitoes beyond the larval stage

Check for chikungunya

In a first, Indian scientists develop vaccine against the disease

Ebb and flow of Kawasaki

Scientists say the spread of the mysterious disease may be linked to wind patterns

Encephalitis kills 22

Shut off

Court passes order against noise pollution

On the prowl

Insecticides are being used to control a virus in the US

White death

Data-wise

A database is imperative, yet is nowhere in sight

Goodbye Dolly

Both her birth and death stirred a raging debate. Dolly -- the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell -- was put to death on February 14, …

Aerial raid on mosquitoes

Bytes

CAG bares Orissa muck

Flays state government for inadequate, dirty water supply

New diagnostic kit distinguishes between dengue & chikungunya virus.