Fighting cancer

Bad environment kills

A new study seeks to link pollutants to the spread of prostate cancer

Packaging plastic policy

It is time we examined the whole issue of packaging, plastics and recycling

What's cooking tonight?

Cooking smoke can increase the risk of catching tuberculosis

Chemical sours mother's milk

Burglar in the brain

Study reveals how lead hampers learning in children

Drive against diesel

A US scientific board endorses EPA's stand that air pollution is linked to higher mortality

Deadly and still free

An international meeting on phasing out deadly pesticides has just come a cropper

Sudden death

A mystery disease kills 35 people in Siliguri

Furore over GMOs

Urban malady

A Japanese study suggests that city life contributes to premature death

Killers in the air

A study of 90 US cities clearly links air pollutants to death and disease

Genes, Dreams and Reality

Don't blame your genes. Environment and lifestyle cause cancer

Toxins in the womb

Organic pollutants lead to neural defects, study confirms

Ailing hospitals

A survey of hospitals in Delhi reveals the poor state of waste management

Urbanised problem

Suburban lifestyle is the cause behind numerous diseases, research authenticates

Phthalates could contribute to obesity, insulin resistance

Zeroing in on health

Battered Lungs

Lung cancer is a result of the deadly cocktail of smoking, air pollution and poverty

Today's Plague

Some of the most common cancers in India are directly linked to poverty

Killer with a BIAS

There is overwhelming evidence that some of the common cancers target the poor

Another Alang in the making

Andhra Pradesh is in choppy waters over a proposed ship breaking yard at Vodarevu

Bad boy phthalate implicated in eczema in children

How the chemical causes the skin disease still a puzzle

Asian rubbish

Pollution zone