Woes of the world

It is mostly the preventable diseases which lead to fatal maladies due to negligence that hold our lives in stake, reveals the 1994 WHO report

Scientists propose Controlled Human Infection Model studies

In CHIM, researchers infect healthy participants with a weakened strain of a pathogen in a controlled setting to learn more about the infection …

Bad blood

Change is needed

The guests who came to kill

A new study suggests that the more the number of hosts a parasite feeds on, the more virulent it becomes

Killer on the prowl

Plaguing the question

Is HIV harmless?

A group of scientists believe that HIV does not cause the dreaded Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Bacterial transfers

Temperature increase could accelerate rise in antibiotic resistance

Temperature and population density could facilitate transmission and thus increase in antibiotic resistance, say scientists 

Gorakhpur child deaths not the only case of mismanagement in government hospitals

There is no scientific consensus on the cause of encephalitis that has been claiming lives every year in the Gorakhpur region since 1978. But an …

Curse of infections

Troubled future

Catching viruses

Brand new infectious maladies such as Jacobson's disease have begun to plague the world, despite better sanitation and medication in developed …

If bird flu arrives, what will India do?

India is a hotbed not only of strange diseases but of stranger disease surveillance and control institutions. Every year, known and unknown …

Nipah outbreak synonymous with India's ill-preparedness to deal with health crises

Nipah virus is part of a clutch of emerging pandemics threatening the world due to global warming and environmental pressure

IIT Hyderabad develops device to detect infectious diseases at low costs

The device can help detect infection on the first day of being infected and can be used without the help of a technician 

Mother Teresa, the saint who fought against stigma of leprosy

She established a number of mobile leper clinics as early as September 1957

Fun time for fungi

Fungal infections stalk the corridors hospitals in the Capital

Rats on the rampage

The toxins of war

Are chemicals used during the Gulf War causing sperm mutations among the war's soldiers?

Steer clear!

The mouth trap

Latest studies on rhesus monkeys point to the risk of contracting the AIDS virus via the mouth

Odyssey of a disease

From sheep to cattle and then to human beings, spongiform encephalopathies, a group of fatal brain maladies, have caught the attention of …

On a come-back trail