World Health Assembly: Political will needed to curb non-communicable diseases

Non-communicable diseases kill 41 million people each year, low and middle-class countries account for 80 per cent of these deaths

India’s air 'toxic': WHO

Fourteen of the world’s 20 most polluted cities are in India, says the new WHO database

Why are boys more malnourished than girls in India?

Going by a recent study on malnutrition in children in 10 Indian cities, parental bias for boys could be pushing them closer to junk food

At least 750,000 children at risk of contracting water-borne diseases in Eastern Ukraine: UNICEF

Eastern Ukraine’s drinking water supply has been affected as vital water infrastructures are damaged due to the conflict

Centre intends to notify rules for regulating livestock markets, taking care of seized animals

Every year, tens of thousands of cattle are routinely smuggled across the borders into Nepal for sacrifice

What could have turned yellow fever outbreak into a global disaster?

Fast spread of yellow fever and lack of steady supply of vaccine had put WHO and global aid agencies in a spot

No more deaths recorded after bird flu outbreak: monitoring committee report

The committee was appointed to oversee disease control after over 70 birds died in Delhi and Gwalior zoos

Advocacy groups oppose Coca-Cola’s Rio Olympics sponsorship

A study claims that sugar-sweetened beverages led to around 180,000 deaths globally in 2010

Yellow fever grips DRC, Angola

More than 11 million doses of the yellow fever vaccine have been sent to Angola since February this year and more than 2 million to DRC

Deadly livestock disease continues to spread across world

Georgia recently reported its first-ever case of ovine rinderpest, also known as ovine rinderpest, while a new outbreak has occurred in the Maldives

Pollution in your city: Is wearing a mask the solution?

Originally intended to safeguard industrial and health workers, masks have now emerged as people's defence mechanism against air pollution

Mosquito matters

The blood-sucking pest is altering itself with changing environment. But studies on it are few and far between

Fever still a mystery

Authorities yet to identify cause of deadly disease prevalent in Muzaffarpur for a decade

Surviving Ebola

Whether you will survive an Ebola infection or not depends on the immune response of your body, not on the level of infection

Science and Technology - Briefs

Science and Technology - Briefs

Pinewood smoke: Cause of lung problems

Gasping millions

Asthma, the bane of modern life, stalks the young ones and the affluent. It will strike 32 million people in India by 2010. The silent strangler …

Urban heat islands dot Delhi

Temperature hot spots found in seven of 11 weather stations in the national capital

Waste dumpsites choke Chennai

Transport costs

Climate change can affect diseases transmitted by insects, vectors: UN report

Humans are changing zoonotic disease systems and increasing their impact through habitat encroachment, human population pressure, the report said&…

Why environmental degradation is a big health risk

Down To Earth and Centre for Science and Environment jointly release Body Burden 2015, an annual health report

Hidden industry hand

Attempts are on to derail UN initiative to declare noncommunicable diseases a global priority

World’s first vaccine for honeybees gets conditional nod in US

Bacterial disease American foulbrood is fatal, routinely ravages colonies