Health Hazard

E-Cigarettes safer than normal cigarettes? Not really, say experts

A simple search on the internet for electronic, or e-cigarettes, throws up a wide variety of choices of online shopping sites to buy them from. Often marketed as the 'safer' choice to normal cigarettes, which experts junk as a gimmick, e-cigarettes bypass regulations and may actually lead one to take up active smoking.

How the Asbestos industry is pushing its lies in India

A largely outlawed scourge to the developed world, asbestos is still going strong in India, and killing tens of thousands of people each year.

Beijing claims one third of its air pollution comes from outside

About a third of the air pollution in China's smog-hit capital comes from outside the city, official media reported on Wednesday, citing a pollution watchdog.