Inextricably linked

A United Nations report highlights the connection between environment and health

Grim reminder

A fleeting reappearance of plague exposes India's lack of preparedness

Science & Technology - Briefs

Science And Technology - Briefs

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Science and Technology - Briefs

Science and Technology - Briefs

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 …

Totally drug resistant TB: government in denial mode

Health ministry deputes team to Mumbai; says neither WHO nor tuberculosis control programme recognise TDR-TB

Catching viruses

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

Who are you?

Suffering SARS

Is the crisis spawned by this new viral infection a failure of global health governance?

Caught off guard

SARS unravelled

The pathogen's path

Pox Americana

Is the West a victim of its own past?

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 …

Lost in the Thar

The Indira Gandhi canal project is a costly failure that has led to destruction of habitat and loss of arable land

Size does matter

Children's toilets are a breed apart from the everyday adult toilet

4 flu mutants

Seven eminent virologists discuss the implications with Down To Earth

Famines in India are a nightmare of the past

A WHO study notes that While India has achieved impressive levels in food production, equitable distribution is still a distant dream. Chronic …

Why diseases are "mysterious"

The government's public health system is completely defunct. Of late, there has been an alarming rise in disease outbreaks in the country. …

SARS Wars

SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is making the world sneeze. Even as the global health community struggles to unmask a new, deadly, …

Frogs are falling silent

The decline of the frog population is an early warning that something is seriously wrong with living conditions on Earth

Monkey business

Coping with the nuisanceof urban monkeys may be beyond human patience. But shooting or declaring them pests will not serve the problem. Only a …