California strengthens air quality norms for particulate matter

Passive smoking adversely affects lung function of females

Waterborne diseases are the biggest threat to children

Childhood cancer rates in India are increasing by six per cent every year

Fast food and slow death

When pencils and paints lead to lower IQ

Children don t have a voice. They can t lobby or fight governments. The initiative lies with India s medical establishment and the civil society

Children are bearing the brunt of environmental degradation. Across the class divide, they are eating, drinking and breathing poison. And their special bodies make them most vulnerable to a host of diseases

Union ministers squabble over aphrodisiac musk

FINE KILL The health effect of ULTRAFINE particles - smaller than 0.1 micron in diameter - on human health was never properly studied. Epidemiological studies done till now only linked the effects

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