Unholy smokeWith a cigarette in your hand you would be a dead man. Yes, by the time you would have finished reading this particular box, smoking would have claimed another six lives across the

Incidence of tuberculosis is rising in the industrialised world

P K Ray an eminent immunotoxicologist and director, Bose Institute, Calcutta, spoke to Amit Nair on the various issues related to human health

Breathe in Delhi and you stand a good chance of getting cancer

Drug reactions claim 100,000 lives every year in the US

global warming is causing a resurgence in mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever across the world. These diseases are spreading from Kenya to New Guinea and South America

Scientists say diesel fumes are carcinogenic, giving the war against vehicular pollution a shot in the arm

A Toronto-based group will launch a lawsuit on behalf of as many as 17 million Canadians who were not told about the mercury in their dental fillings. The suit seeks damages from the health ministry

the West Bengal government has asked auto-emission testing centres in the city to only measure carbon monoxide levels in exhaust fumes of vehicles. Thus, it has ignored the provisions of the

Chandrakant Pandav , additional professor, Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, is a leading member of the International Council for Control for Iodine Defici

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