Call to make healthy choices available and affordable

Health experts lash out at food industry for putting public health at risk

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'Lifestyle' diseases spur UN to act

COVID-19: Nitish Kumar orders more testing amid numerous challenges for Bihar

Kumar wants 10,000 tests for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) per day against current 1,900-2,000 daily tests

MERS virus may spread to India post Haj

Researchers predict spread of acute respiratory syndrome that originated in the Middle East by studying population movements; Mumbai, Kozhikode …

Time to wake up to threat of NCDs

As the UN begins its meeting to devise strategies to tackle NCDs, Indian public health activists say it was a wake-up call for the health …

Non-communicable diseases: The unrecognised public health threat

Health is rarely the topic of discussion at the UN general assembly. But starting September 19, the UN began a high-level meeting to debate a …

COVID-19: Revised guidelines show how biomedical waste must be handled

Extra precautions to be taken by sanitation workers, healthcare facilities and COVID-19 isolation wards are also described

Heavy metals in cosmetics

Chandra Bhushan, deputy director general at Centre for Science and Environment talks about the growing cosmetic industry and the presence of …