A common class of insecticides puts farmers at high risk of diabetes
Long-term exposure to organophosphate insecticides puts the farming community at a higher risk of developing diabetes, shows a study
WHO issues guidelines to prevent child and maternal deaths
Every year, 2.6 million children are stillborn and 303,000 births result in mother’s death
HIV bill at risk
Health ministry keeps draft bill under wraps. Activists fear provision of free treatment is diluted
The night the air turned poisonous
...the much-flouted crisis management system failed to activate itself, leaving the residents of Kardampuri colony in Delhi gasping for breath
Charges of poisoning
Using automobile batteries both Indian and foreign, Clandestine lead-smelting units near the Delhi border have played havoc with the health of …
The gassing of a village
A petroleum product factory continues to chug out its poison, despite a decade of protests and official ire
Waste pays
Minimising the production of waste in industries saves raw material and, because it reduces the quantity of pollutants, lowers the cost of …
Bringing better health to the Indian woman
Efforts are on to tackle the abysmal state of female health in India, especially among the poorer sections
Useful guide to industrial pollution
INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION IN JAPAN Editor : Jun Ui Publisher: United Nations University Press, 1992 Price not stated
Research without change
Robert Repetto and Sanjay Baliga quote a number of studies carried out by Indians in India and abroad on the impact of pesticides on the immune …
Die hard
Identified a century ago and viciously attacked by pesticides and drugs, the Anopheles mosquito and the malarial parasite still survive to prey …
Endemic encounter
Some children appear to have received close to 100 rads. The radiation has mainly occurred from iodine 131, a radioactive form of iodine that is …
Mines and other killing devices
STATE OF ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IN INDIAN COALFIELDS: COALFIELDS IN WEST BENGAL·Sunit Kumar Sarkar and Subhankar Sarkar·Oxford …
Deadly slip up
An adulterated cooking medium sparks off panic in India, but the government remains clueless on how to deal with the crisis
Will this one work?
If the first class action suit against tobacco companies in Florida is successful, the US tobacco industry is in trouble
Feeling the heat
The Justice department files a mammoth civil lawsuit against cigarette manufacturers in the US
Killer Ape
Another murderer comes to town. There is no dearth of Western murderers because our government lets them roam free
Customer be damned
A new report claims that cigarette manufacturers had the know-how to make cigarette smoking safer, but did not introduce them
Dumpyard
Hazardous materials from Taiwan were dumped in a village in Cambodia about a month ago. UnsuspeoAng villagers now complain of a host of diseases
Limp-frogging
Increasing deformities in frogs attributed to pesticide exposure, which makes them susceptible to parasite infection
THERE IS NO JUSTICE
E VIJAYALAKSHMI and RUHANI KAUR travel around Padre village, Kasargod district, Kerala and find what living with endosulfan has done to the area …
Demand charter from children for education, health sectors
Report>>Ensuring Universal Access To Health and Education in India, Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, Delhi 2007
Failure from the jaws of success
Chhattisgarh reduced infant mortality a few years ago, but threw away the good work
One Health: FAO, UNEP, WHO and WOAH launch research agenda for antimicrobial resistance
Interface addresses global health issues necessitating multisectoral, multidisciplinary response to AMR
India takes steps towards nutrient profiling of packaged foods
Initial survey on labels suggests that packaged food is not fit to be marketed to children