Puffing to death

Different 'strokes'

Antifreeze

Scientists figure out the common cold "handshake"

Wider ambit

Move to increase scope of international health laws

Tourism biggest casualty

Mote monitor

A new instrument to detect tiny polluting particles that vehicles emit

Feeding in asthma

Food that one finds allergic can cause problems in the respiratory tract according to a group of scientists inspecting children with breathing …

Drug overkill

Irrational drug prescriptions are giving rise to drug-resistant bacteria

ECO COURT

Quake sickness

Quest for clean air

Staking a claim

Frontier guards

Invaded and ravaged by germs and pathogens every moment of its existence, the human body has developed its own lines of defence. Among the …

Cops compensated

Ecological nightmare

A diseased world

EGYPT

Choking effects

Workers suffer from respiratory ailments after cleaning World Trade Centre debris

SARS - India's wrong diagnosis

The Union government's recent declaration that India does not have any cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) may have allayed the …

Bytes

Polluting fuels choke Chinese households

Extensive domestic use of coal in China has led to an increase in the incidence of respiratory illnesses, which are now among the leading causes …

Urban burden

THAILAND

RESPIRATORY ILLNESS

Smokeless stove