Parkinson's disease and

Making a killing

More revelations about how Africans are being used as guinea pigs for unethical drug tests

Ecstasy and agony

Growing killer

As the menace of AIDS spreads in India, there is an interest in traditional cures

Taste that

...could kill skin cancer cells

Calling trouble

Mobile phones damage brain cells

Taken to task

US to indict biotech company for misleading investors

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Healers in arms

The conflict between allopathy and homeopathy is an old one

Easy tuberculosis detection test for children

Bird flu virus cannot trigger human pandemic

India advances in cancer diagnosis, treatment

Device to screen patients from lung cancer

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Carcinogenic enzymes blocked in human body

Yoga helps reduce epileptic fits

Bile helps fight cholera

Neisseria's game plan

AIIMS Kalyani, to be inaugurated by PM Modi today, lacks environmental clearance: West Bengal Pollution Control Board

Roadblock with political purpose, inauguration to proceed, counters Union minister

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 4, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

From RTI to dam safety, highly contested Bills to be tabled in Parliament’s monsoon session

A slew of crucial Bills are likely to be tabled in the session, which will have only 18 working days

Convalescent plasma therapy doesn't really help beat COVID-19: ICMR-backed study

No lowering of mortality in multi-centre trial; disease progression towards severity also not impacted; shortness of breath reduced

Global pandemic fund to open for investment proposals in November

The treasury will help boost pandemic prevention, preparedness and response in low- and middle-income countries 

We grew human tear glands in the lab, and now we’re making them cry

Around 5% of the adult population suffer from ‘dry eye’ syndrome because their tear glands don't function properly

Indian public sector health facilities, workers should lead the fight against AMR

Both are important links across sectors; they should unleash their full impact on the life of the common man for curtailment of AMR.