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

Americans want low-cost, quality health care

Hillary Rodham Clinton, head of the US President's task force on health, has a tough task ahead in providing Americans with low-cost, quality …

Incinerator in Ohio ignites controversy

While US vice-president Al Gore cast his lot with the anti-incinerator, industry greens, residents of East Liverpool, Ohio, got together to …

"Clean air can save many lives"

CARTER BRANDON an environmental economist in the environment and natural resources division of the World Bank (WB), has done considerable work …

The malnutrition bazaar

Is India ready to protect itself from the onslaught of food and nutrition industry?

Cancerous virus

Researchers believe that hepatitis virus can cause cancer

Shaken and stirred

Report focuses on Orissa cyclone's mind-jolting fallout

Minorities yoked to spin on first AIDS vaccine trials

Brush up law

As many tooth-care products contain harmful tobacco

It's not fishy

Protein from fish scales

Cholera control

Through a group of viruses

Mother's touch

Malaria in a ferment

Using yeast to produce a cure

Nemesis of killer drugs

The investigator who took on a pharma giant in the US

Poisons we live with

Book>> What’s gotten into us? Staying healthy in a toxic world • by Mckay Jenkins, Random House • US $26

Silenced to death

The media and the government keep mum on pollution-cancer linkages and the abysmal medical help available in India against the menace

No breather in sight

Research reinforces theory that air pollution and smoking perpetrate asthma

Unhealthy countryside

It was once associated with the rich and urban. Today, hypertension is fast spreading in rural India. This is a cause for concern because …

Troubled Beautiful Minds

They are there—each residential area has its mentally disturbed people; each family has anecdotes of crazy relatives. Nobody wants to …

The missing public

Don't ignore the deadly sign

Government buckles under pressure from tobacco industry and halts order on large pictorial warnings on tobacco products. Will profit prevail over …

Food for thought

Iron cooking vessels help combat iron deficiency

Black magic

Scientists develop anti-diabetic drug from jamun

Reason to smile

Tamarind enhances urinary excretion of fluoride

Malaria forecast

Meteorology can predict incidence five months in advance