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 …

Why we should test everyone's genes to predict disease

If a test could reveal the diseases you and your family might be more likely to get, would you get it?

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Has the free market economy added to India’s increasing PCOD burden?

About 9.13% of menstruating women in south India and Maharashtra suffer from PCOS, while 22.5 per cent have PCOD, according to UNICEF

UK advertising committee widens restrictions on food and drinks ads

Lifestyle diseases are the biggest killers in India

Down To Earth’s recently launched biennial publication shows crucial links between environment and health, some of them yet unexplored

Pollution control boards should set their own deadline

An effective regulatory framework for pollution control boards can enable authorities to monitor air pollution better

National plan on non-communicable diseases

Food processing industry takes a toll on country's health

Eating at home isn’t the in thing anymore. Hanging out is hip, especially in the mushrooming fast food joints that blister the skylines of …