… Prabhat Jha is Canada research chair of health and development at the University of
Toronto. He is also the founding director of the Centre for Global Health Research, St. Michael’s …

Plastic pollution is ubiquitous in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Plastic waste exposed
to the environment creates problems and is of significant concern for all life forms. Plastic …

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The UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in September, 2011,
is an unprecedented opportunity to create a sustained global movement against premature …

Background Up-to-date information on the causes of child deaths is crucial to guide global
efforts to improve child survival. We report new estimates for 2008 of the major causes of …

Background Extrapolation from studies in the 1980s suggests that smoking causes 25% of
deaths among women and men 35 to 69 years of age in the United States. Nationally …

Background The age-specific mortality rates and total deaths from specific cancers have not
been documented for the various regions and subpopulations of India. We therefore …

Background The nationwide effects of smoking on mortality in India have not been assessed
reliably. Methods In a nationally representative sample of 1.1 million homes, we compared …

Background India has long been thought to have more snakebites than any other country.
However, inadequate hospital-based reporting has resulted in estimates of total annual …

Asia harbors substantial cultural and linguistic diversity, but the geographic structure of genetic
variation across the continent remains enigmatic. Here we report a large-scale survey of …