Bleak future

Imploring disaster

Safe fibres

A technique to create 'safe' ceramic fibres

Not all good, not all bad...

Low cholesterol levels may be good for the heart but can cause depression

Pregnancy and longevity

Rising mercury kills 150

Chemical backlash

War veterans in the US call for a post-mortem on the effects of Agent Orange

The right chord

A new safe method to detect anaemia in foetuses

Back from the past

Pesticides that have for decades been out of use are now being detected in fresh products

Malnutrition and diabetes

More skeletons tumble out

Toxic hybrid

GM crops are unsafe, right?

Objection overruled

Deadly impact

Pill poppers beware

Indiscriminate antibiotic use has created drug resistance in harmful bacteria

Undermined

Orissa villagers say relocate us, we want to leave right away

No sex please, we're Indians

Invader's curse

Barefoot health care

How India’s COVID lockdowns impacted menstrual health

Limited access to period products during India’s COVID lockdowns highlighted how far public health initiatives have to go when it comes to …

‘Gamers with pathological patterns can now be diagnosed and treated’

Yatan Pal Singh Balhara, associate professor of psychiatry at AIIMS, says WHO’s move to call gaming disorder a mental health condition a …

WHO’s urgent call: World needs new antimicrobial resistance vaccines

Urges equitable and global access to existing vaccines as well  

Run-up to pandemic treaty: WHO’s 10 proposals call for high-level council, changes to health regulations

Observers had earlier criticised the absence of independent monitoring for ensuring compliance with the pandemic accord

Big push for One Health: FAO, UNEP, WHO, Animal health body lay out plan

Framework will integrate systems and capacity to collectively better prevent, predict, detect and respond to health threats

There is a link between heat and mental health; and climate change is making it more pronounced

There has been an increase in footfall at major psychiatric hospitals in the country since March, an unusually hot month this year