India

 Breathing easy

A hundred medicines, a dozen therapies but no cure, that is the story of asthma treatment world wide. Complementary medicine fill the vacuum

Publication Date: 
14/01/2002
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Pollution Control, Air Pollution, Malnutrition, Asthma, Respiratory Diseases, Children, Health Care, Medical Research, Child Health, Smoking, Genetic Resources, Africa, Mexico, New Zealand, India, Delhi
India

 Gasping millions

Asthma, the bane of modern life, stalks the young ones and the affluent. It will strike 32 million people in India by 2010. The silent strangler has a propensity to waylay its victims, striking with stealth. An analysis into what triggers the killer which

Publication Date: 
14/01/2002
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Pollution Control, Air Pollution, Malnutrition, Asthma, Respiratory Diseases, Children, Health Care, Medical Research, Child Health, Smoking, Genetic Resources, Africa, Mexico, New Zealand, India, Delhi
Health

 Choking link

Ultrafine pollution particles can penetrate very deep into the lungs

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
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Pollution, Air Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, Health Effects, Respiratory Diseases, Health, Children, Medical Research
India

  Coma after death

Child victims of a frayed medical service and a government programme gone wrong raise a mute question

Publication Date: 
14/12/2001
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Infant mortality, Respiratory Diseases, Children, Health Care, Governance, India, Assam, Lucknow (D)
Climate Change

  Fatal dose

Vitamin A supplements claim the lives of 17 children in Assam

Publication Date: 
14/12/2001
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Infant mortality, Children, Medical Research, Immunisation, UNICEF, Assam
India

 On a weak limb

The lack of health infrastructure and malnutrition in India's rural regions has left the people vulnerable to a number of health problems. Children are the worst affected with life expectancy levels

Publication Date: 
Sunday, October 14, 2001
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Malnutrition, Health Effects, Children, Child Health, Rural Development, India
Health

  Hungry for research

Child starvation could increase unless research is improved

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
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Agricultural Research, Food Policy, Malnutrition, Starvation, Health, Children, World Bank, Africa, Asia, China, Global, Developing Countries, Food Security
Health

 Toys and drunkards

A child's tinkertoy was all that the scientists used to explain why cyclists, stilt-walkers as well as drunkards can gain stability while

Publication Date: 
30/08/2001
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Toy Makers, Children, Life Science, Research, United States Of America (US)
Fisheries

 Toxic tales from God's own country

As deformity cases swell in Kerala s Kasaragod district, the silent screams of the victims fall on the deaf ears of the government

Publication Date: 
14/08/2001
Surendranath C
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Pesticides, Plantation Crops, Health Effects, Cancer, Workers, Children, Blindness, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Endosulfan, Kerala, Kasaragod (D), Diseases
India

 LEAD ALERT!

Dilution is not a solution for any kind of pollution, says T Venkatesh , professor and head of department of biochemistry and biophysics at St John s Medical College, Bangalore. He talks to Nidhi Jamwal

Publication Date: 
14/08/2001
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Environment, Lead, Children, India, Pollution

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