Washington: Climate change could push the cost of US allergies and asthma beyond the current $32 billion annual price tag, conservation and health groups reported on Wednesday.

Surinder Sud / New Delhi April 05, 2010, 0:29 IST

Climate change has begun to affect human health, leading to a rise in cases related to stomach ailments and vector-borne diseases like malaria and dengue. This has been indicated in a report in the recent bulletin of the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Pune With environmental pollution, eating habits and a sedentary lifestyle making children prone to asthma, an initiative by the Chest Research Foundation (CRF) is set to make asthma detection easy.

P M Raghunandan, Bangalore:

In a major setback to environmentalists striving for a permanent night traffic ban on the national highways passing through Bandipur reserve forest, the Union Ministry of Surface Transport has directed the State National Highways to take steps to ensure uninterrupted traffic on these routes.

Pune An armed forces study has shown that children are susceptible to jatropha poisoning if they ingest the seeds of the plant. Specialists from the Department of Paediatrics and Neonatology at Command Hospital Pune and Military Hospital at Ahmednagar conducted the study that was reported in the January issue of the Medical Journal of Armed Forces of India.