Trichomes the real heroes in natural farming
These small, smooth hair protect plants from insects and stop fungal spores from germinating
Did you know dogs can detect malaria in our breath?
Using dogs to detect malaria in humans can help speed up global eradication of the disease as the method is non-invasive and allows many samples …
Why zoonotic diseases are fast spreading to humans
Infectious diseases that were once confined to animals in forests are now attacking human beings, at a faster pace
Giving the art of mimicry a new meaning
In order to propagate its own species, a parasitic fungus attacks mustard plants and transforms their leaves, making them look like flowers of …
Smoke gets in your eyes - and forms cataracts
The oxidising property of cigarette and chulha smoke is one of the factors being linked by researchers to the formation of eye cataract.
Mid-life crisis prolonged
High blood pressure when you are over the hill causes 'silent' strokes, which pile up and damage cognitive faculties in your old age
Outbreak Outrage
There is a suspicion among African biomedics about the well projected linking of the continent's environment with the emergence of lethal viruses …
Seal hole, heal heart
Scientists in the US have developed a kit designed to mend torn membranes in heart muscles. Liposomes or little bundles of fat are coming in …
Beware of the Ganga
A dip in the Ganga was meant to purify both body and soul. But devotees in Bihar have had a bad experience
Harmful traces
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Hide Burns
Skin diseases and stomach ailments afflict most of the people living around a tannery area in Kanpur - one of the fallout of the failure of the …
Recurrent scourge
Spread of rat fever in Kerala, once again points to the lacuna of the authorities in controlling the disease
One in four Indians above 30 risks dying of lifestyle diseases: WHO
Report shows India has no multi-pronged plan to reduce NCDs or a proper monitoring and surveillance system
Disease caused by reduced blood supply to heart now biggest health scare in India
Ischemic heart disease is biggest reason for deteriorating health of men as well as women, says a study
Healthy lifestyle can overcome genetic risk of heart disease: study
Subjects who followed a low-fat diet reported higher levels of good cholesterol despite carrying a gene shown to increase risk of diabetes, shows …
Stung by Aedes
Incidence of dengue and chikungunya has grown dramatically in recent years. Let’s understand the impact of climate change on virus …
The lull sets in
Scientists warn that conditions are favourable for another sal borer epidemic. State forest departments are unprepared
On air
Angry residents of Delhi flooded the chief minister's office with phone calls to protest against the withdrawal of a ban on polluting vehicles
Arsenic-free
Scientists in Sweden are propagating laterite treatment for the removal of arsenic from groundwater in the Bengal Delta plains
Coma after death
Child victims of a frayed medical service and a government programme gone wrong raise a mute question
Between the lines
lpg, touted as the cleanest fuel option, is responsible for the release of high levels of nitrogen oxides and suspended particulate matter
"Asthma afflicts almost every house in Gorai"
Pramod N Bagud (PNB), a pediatrician, and Manoj K Ved (mkv), a general physician, practise in Gorai, an area infamous for a 15-hectare dumpsite …
Smoke from world’s worsening wildfires is killing more than 33,000 people every year
Japan accounted for the highest number of annual deaths, at 7,000, in its 47 cities; the study was carried out in 749 cities across 43 …
Dengue strikes early yet again
Dengue is known to spread after monsoon, but in the past couple of years, cases of the disease have been recorded in summer as well. This year …
More than 12 million deaths due to unhealthy environment in 2012, says WHO
One in every four deaths across the world can be attributed to environment-related factors