Sunscreen wouldn’t have saved Bob Marley from melanoma, and it won’t help other dark-skinned people
Melanoma is a potentially deadly form of skin cancer linked to overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun
A $996-million plan to eradicate deadly sheep and goat plague
At least 300 million families are likely to benefit by wiping out Peste des Petits Ruminants
Snakebite: a public health problem you don’t hear of
Call to end neglected tropical diseases brings this major public health problem into focus
Limited access to medication in Sub-Saharan Africa likely to stall hypertension treatment
Hypertension is the most important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, which are the leading global cause of death
Diseases of a lifestyle: the transition to avoid
Can we not go from being poor but unhealthy to being rich and healthy? Why should we inherit diseases that can be junked?
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
Pudgy babies have the edge
Recent studies indicate that the greater the weight of babies at birth, the less prone they are to heart disease during their riotous adult years
Is HIV harmless?
A group of scientists believe that HIV does not cause the dreaded Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Depressing fats
Low cholesterol helps prevent heart diseases but watch out, excessive loss might drive you towards suicide
Cowering behind lies
PETER B STONE presents an objective re-examination of the recent scare over the mad cow disease in Europe
The hanta phantom
Indian scientists suspect the presence of hantavirus - one of the. most dreaded killers of modern times - in Gujarat
The cholesterol dilemma
High levels of cholesterol in the blood can prove risky. But low levels could be even more dangerous. Well, high or low, cholesterol seems to …
Salt of the earth
IODINE DEFICIENCY DISORDERS IN LIVESTOCK: ECOLOGY AND ECONOMICS·Chandrakant S Pandav and A R Rao·Oxford University Press, New Delhi&…
Pressure play
If stress can reactivate latent viruses in mice, it can have the same effect in humans, say American scientists
Highlights of 2016 UNICEF report on the state of the world's children
The UNICEF report, titled The State of the World's Children 2016, makes startling revelations on prevalence of inequity in child health, …
Food allergies on the rise
Increase in number of cases reported across the world; prevalence rate in India could be 3 per cent
Bureaucracy has no idea about health care trends
T Jacob John , professor of virology and paediatrics at Christian Medical College, Vellore, speaks to Raj Kishor Khaware on the state of health …
Another plague in the offing
The rash of leptospirosis cases in Mumbai during the current monsoon points towards the gradual breakdown of health services in burgeoning …
SARS-CoV-2 changes classic feature of virus becoming endemic: Shahid Jameel
Shahid Jameel, former head of the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium, speaks to DTE about how a virus mutates, the trajectory of COVID-19,…
New diseases are the result of environmental degradation
After being instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, D A Henderson , director, Centre for Civilian Biodefence, Johns Hopkins University, USA,…
Not even a glimmer of hope for health worldwide, warns report
Epidemic of chronic diseases, social inequalities and COVID-19 will worsen the future of global health
After floods, rats plague the people of Kerala
An epidemic of ‘rat fever’ or leptospirosis has struck the state, claiming 9 lives
Temperature increase could accelerate rise in antibiotic resistance
Temperature and population density could facilitate transmission and thus increase in antibiotic resistance, say scientists
One in every 10 asthma patients in the world is in India
90 per cent of childhood asthma and 50 per cent of adult asthma is caused due to environmental allergens
Scientists find use of fly ash in mosquito control
Fly ash, a harmful byproduct of coal-based power generation, has found a new use - mosquito control