Smoking hearts

Hunt on for cataract gene

Armageddon ahead

Hit by pesticides

Cheap pesticides and fungicides have led to the spread of many diseases in the Kashmir valley

Hepatitis C hits Calcutta

Tanzania

Tick with a bite

Global warming has led to rise in tick-borne encephalitis cases

The bitter pill

A drug with fatal side-effects may be reintroduced in the US

Spent force

Replicating virus

Researchers create a near replica of the Hepatitis C virus

ARGENTINA

INDIA

Sugar for the heart

THAILAND

Japan

Missing link

A newly discovered HIV-like virus in monkeys provides clues about the origin of AIDS in humans

Uprooting pollution

Plants affected by pollution are increasingly being used for indicating pollution levels

Meat of the problem

Antibiotic resistant bacteria in meat on the rise

Curtain raiser

Ways to prevent skin ulcers

Cautious assertion

Large crisis

Look out

Two viruses from the infamous retrovirus family found

Yeast shows the way between nature and nurture

Let the young ones be

Chemical warfare

Time to get new bed nets