India

 Disclosure!

US pollution laws are inadequate, reveals EPA report

Publication Date: 
30/10/2003
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Pollution, Health Effects, Respiratory Diseases, Legislation, United States Of America (US)
India

 In dis<i>tress</i>

Hair pollution hits Karnataka

Publication Date: 
14/07/2003
E Vijayalakshmi
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Pollution, Health Effects, Respiratory Diseases, Waste Disposal, Tuberculosis, Industry, Legislation, India, Karnataka
India

 Sapping structures

Do you feel too run down at the end of your workday? Welcome to the sick building syndrome (sbs). Ill-ventilated and badly planned workplaces

Publication Date: 
14/04/2003
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Health Effects, Respiratory Diseases, Sanitation, Research, India
Industry

 Caught in a haze

Indian scientists contest the UNEP report on the aerosol-caused Asian brown cloud

Publication Date: 
29/11/2002
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Pollution, Respiratory Diseases, Industry, Research, Scientists, UNEP, Asia
Industry

 Malnourished Children

S K Kabra , associate professor in the paediatric pulmonology division of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi talks to Nidhi Jamwal about

Publication Date: 
30/03/2001
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Pollution, Malnutrition, Starvation, Respiratory Diseases, Urban Habitat, Children, Health Care, Breast Feeding, Pneumonia, Environmental Health, Governance, Developing Countries
Industry

 Feud settled

a long-running court battle in Japan over air pollution from highway traffic ended in December 2000, with an out of court settlement. The Japanese government and the Hanshin Expressway Public

Publication Date: 
27/02/2001
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Vehicular Pollution, Respiratory Diseases, Compensation, Industry, Environment Court, Japan, Vehicles
Health

 Paradox, at the altitude

Mild asthma gets better at higher altitudes

Publication Date: 
14/02/2000
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Health Effects, Asthma, Respiratory Diseases, Health, Medical Research
Mining

 The killer mines

Open cast mining activity in Rajasthan has played havoc with the environment and is killing workers slowly

Publication Date: 
14/11/1997
Indira Khurana
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Mining, Respiratory Diseases, Workers, Rajasthan
India

 Checking immunity

A team of researchers from the Delhi-based Centre for Biochemical Technology (CBT) has recently formulated an Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (Elisa) -- an immune-based test kit -- for the early

Publication Date: 
29/04/1995
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Respiratory Diseases, Science And Technology, Biotechnology, Delhi
Agriculture

 Puffing to death

NEWS FOR smokers gets worse and worse. According to earlier studies, about one-fourth the number of regular smokers were expected to die of tobacco-related diseases. Latest estimates put the figure

Publication Date: 
29/06/1992
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Cancer, Respiratory Diseases, Smoking, Science And Technology, WHO

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