Placebos are better

Reaching India's Poor: NGO Approaches to Community Health Edited by Saroj Pachauri Publisher: Sage Publications and Ford Foundation Price: Rs 325 (…

Research without change

Robert Repetto and Sanjay Baliga quote a number of studies carried out by Indians in India and abroad on the impact of pesticides on the immune …

Die hard

Identified a century ago and viciously attacked by pesticides and drugs, the Anopheles mosquito and the malarial parasite still survive to prey …

Endemic encounter

Some children appear to have received close to 100 rads. The radiation has mainly occurred from iodine 131, a radioactive form of iodine that is …

Mines and other killing devices

STATE OF ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IN INDIAN COALFIELDS: COALFIELDS IN WEST BENGAL·Sunit Kumar Sarkar and Subhankar Sarkar·Oxford …

Deadly slip up

An adulterated cooking medium sparks off panic in India, but the government remains clueless on how to deal with the crisis

Will this one work?

If the first class action suit against tobacco companies in Florida is successful, the US tobacco industry is in trouble

Feeling the heat

The Justice department files a mammoth civil lawsuit against cigarette manufacturers in the US

Killer Ape

Another murderer comes to town. There is no dearth of Western murderers because our government lets them roam free

Customer be damned

A new report claims that cigarette manufacturers had the know-how to make cigarette smoking safer, but did not introduce them

Dumpyard

Hazardous materials from Taiwan were dumped in a village in Cambodia about a month ago. UnsuspeoAng villagers now complain of a host of diseases

Beyond the acceptance level

Children in the US suffer lower IQ levels even at acceptable levels of lead in the blood

Limp-frogging

Increasing deformities in frogs attributed to pesticide exposure, which makes them susceptible to parasite infection

THERE IS NO JUSTICE

E VIJAYALAKSHMI and RUHANI KAUR travel around Padre village, Kasargod district, Kerala and find what living with endosulfan has done to the area …

Poisoning food and science

Documentary>>Poison on the Platter directed by Ajay Kanchan presented by Mahesh Bhatt

Born dead

In the story from the great Indian epic, Mahabharat , the legendary hero Arjun was once telling his wife Shubhadra how to penetrate the …

Amid germophobia

Triclosan in handwash can impair muscle contraction

Avoid the din

Constant traffic noise can increase risk of heart attack

Sneaky side-effects at a click

US scientists develop database for adverse drug reactions

Asbestos fight gets ugly

Police use batons, tear gas on protesters of plant in Muzaffarpur

The unleaded cosh

Falling prey to the evil weed

Profits from sin

Eskimo experiment

Tobacco trouble