Developing world: More handwashing would reduce diarrhea-related deaths, doctor says NEW DELHI – Dr. Shambhu Nath sees the infectious diseases behind a million deaths in India annually rather differently from …

Despite the growing attention being paid to the cause of international debt relief, led by celebrities such as Bono, little has actually been done to ease the financial burden on …

Advances against polio made in 2004 were lauded by WHO as “the most important progress ever made towards a polio-free world”. But the success of the global eradication initiative still …

High levels of toxic contaminants have been recorded in several Arctic regions. But the full health effects of exposure to these chemicals are only just emerging. Meet the scientists studying …

The first comprehensive look at persistent toxic substances (PTS) across the Russian Arctic reinforces what studies in other Arctic nations have revealed: that indigenous peoples in this northern swath of …

Canadian scientists are helping Russia battle the growing scourge of AIDS LATE ONE AFTERNOON, Vinay Saldanha of Mississauga, Ont., finishes up another day at the Russian Federal AIDS Centre — …

With Russia’s HIV infection epidemic now thought to be exploding faster than anywhere else in the world, the hunt for clues about the epidemic’s causes, and how to curb it, …