Malaria forecast

Meteorology can predict incidence five months in advance

Under-five child mortality drops 53 per cent from 1990 to 2015: report

Despite progress, a large number of children are still dying due to preventable causes. Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia are the regions …

World Health Day focus on controlling vector-borne diseases

Dengue poses tough challenge; over 40 per cent of the world population is at risk from dengue, says WHO

Vaccine Eloquent

Universal vaccination became part of government policy in 1978. A quarter of a century since, progress has been fitful. In some parts of the …

No healthcare for Simplipal tribals in Orissa

Devil is in the details

A WTO meeting of ministers is hailed as a success

Fine print hassles

Chemical manufacturers shaken by India's signing POPs convention

Drug abuse

Can render ineffective the only antimalarial medicine against Plasmodium falci

Glaxo pulls out anti-malaria drugs

75% emerging infectious diseases zoonotic: UN Report

Document emphasises on importance of a ‘One-Health’ approach to manage and prevent zoonotic disease outbreaks and pandemics

Herbs to heal malaria

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Award for ecosecurity

For his outstanding work in fighting malaria, V P Sharma gets the Green Scientist Award 2001

Science & Technology - Briefs

Mutations that make malaria drugs ineffective discovered

Gene kelch13 associated with malaria resistance

Big mini revolution

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Needed: People's participation

Communities and state governments have to play a more important role

Hassan: Holding on

MRC's operations are still going on in this Karnataka district, but their fate is uncertain

Kheda: Forgotten glory

This is where it all started. And now, there is no sign of past successes

Chennai: beginning of a new policy

New bye-laws might help in dealing with malaria

Pondichery: The gnats live on

Even the memory of initial success of bioenvironmental approach has been wiped off

Goa: Back to square one

For mysterious reasons, the state government is highly sceptical of the MRC's work

Why do we need to worry about antimicrobial resistance in the time of COVID-19?

As more and more antimicrobials are used to control the virus and the co-infections, this indiscriminate use will further increase AMR