Snakebite: a public health problem you don’t hear of

Call to end neglected tropical diseases brings this major public health problem into focus

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? 

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

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

Push to prevent cancer, strokes

Government wakes up to threat of non-communicable diseases

Pune: a contradictory picture

Bhopal: towards disaster zone

Delhi: the capital punishment

Official contamination

Sudden death

A mystery disease kills 35 people in Siliguri

US comes clean

Diesel becomes a dirty word in the official US environmental lexicon

Re-examined

Air pollutants alone may cause acute asthma attacks

Rash of ailments

Followed by new scheme to track diseases

Chikungunya virus assumes epidemic proportions

How the disease became an epidemic

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 …