the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare recently launched a national programme on prevention and control of non-communicable diseases

It's just not the consumption of tobacco, which is dangerous. Its marketing techniques, including advertisements, also have negative consequences. A recent survey of school children in Chennai and

Four Iranian scientists led by Abdolali Mohagheghzadeh of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences reviewed literature from 50 countries across five continents for remedies administered in the smoke

doctors advise asthma patients against spending much time travelling. Now a London study has demonstrated how air pollution affects the functioning of the lungs in asthmatics in real-life

your morning tea contains chromium, which may cause cancer and skin diseases. The heavy metal gets into the leaves when tea leaves are processed using the

using cow dung as cooking fuel could expose people to arsenic. A recent study shows villagers on the Ganga Meghna Brahmaputra plain were exposed to smoke containing high levels of arsenic

First human bird flu case in Pakistan: WHO has confirmed that the limited human-to-human bird flu transmission has occurred in Pakistan. The country reported eight cases of human bird flu in