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India court orders 2-month ban on pesticide, study

Headlines from the Associated Press  Sat, 05/14/2011 - 03:37

NEW DELHI (AP) -- India's top court temporarily banned production and sale of a pesticide widely used in the country so its effects on humans and wildlife can be studied....


 

Bad vaccines risk encephalitis epidemic in India

Headlines from the Associated Press  Wed, 09/17/2008 - 03:46

LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- India's government sent thousands of ineffective vaccines to a northern Indian state, halting a planned immunization drive against a deadly outbreak of Japanese encephalitis that has killed more than 200 children since June, officials said Wednesday....


 

Study Says India Has Smoking Crisis

Headlines from the Associated Press  Thu, 02/14/2008 - 17:28

NEW DELHI (AP) -- India is in the grips of a smoking epidemic that is likely to cause nearly a million deaths a year by 2010, more than half of them among poor and illiterate people, according to a study released Thursday....