Deepak Natarajan

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The Ways in Which Delhi’s Pollution Can Kill You

Deepak Natarajan 30/12/2015

Before you draw your next breath, be aware that...

Olympic medals from the 2012 games on display at the British Museum, London. Credit: pahudson/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

With Athletics in Tatters, India Could Face Interpol Inquiry for its Doping Habit

Deepak Natarajan 10/11/2015

Governance should not be confused with business and winning...

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The SPRINT Trial on Aggressive Treatment of Hypertension Should Be Published at the Earliest

Deepak Natarajan 04/11/2015

The Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) randomised 9,361...

The discoveries of potent cures against elephantiasis, river blindness and malaria has won the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine, 2015. Source: nobelprize.org

2015 Nobel for Medicine Rewards Seminal Old Cures for Parasitic Diseases

Deepak Natarajan 06/10/2015

The award was bagged by Youyou Tu for her...

A male Aedes aegypti (left), and a female (centre and right). Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Why Delhi Needs to Say ‘Not in My Backyard’ to Dengue

Deepak Natarajan 18/09/2015

We are sitting ducks against a virus that has...

Tamil Nadu is the only Indian state to ban the sale of over-the-counter emergency contraception. Credit: t_trace/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Big Pharma is Subtly But Surely Spinning Statins Out of Control

Deepak Natarajan 20/08/2015

An impression is being hammered down that statins are...

Horn OK Please, no matter what. Credit: Meena Kadri/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND, 2.0.

Sound Pollution, the Not So Silent Killer

Deepak Natarajan 02/08/2015

How ironic that we hold International Yoga day and...