Death-watch

Secondhand victims

Safe bite?

THAILAND

India

Surgery for blood pressure

Surgical control

Cause of death: poverty

Under pressure

Bacteria and hypertension: a new study says the two are actually linked

Heart-friendly pill

New blood, new hope

Medical science finds a cheaper, better alternative for bone marrow transplant

Matters of the heart

Medical science promises a new lease of life to all potential heart-transplant patients

CHINA

Byte solution for the heart

Doctors may soon use hi-tech computers for the diagnosis of heart patients

Cardiac deaths hereditary

Spy vs spy

The war of wits that goes on between plants and viruses

Town quarantined

Heart matters

A new drug that improves the survival of diabetics with heart problems

Cultured eyes

Wanted: hair donors

It may now be possible to transplant hair from one person to the other

Chicken out!

An virus stages a comeback in Hong Kong to kill thousands of birds

Pearls of emotion

Fatal treatment

A burning problem

The foot-and-mouth scare assumes alarming proportions in the UK

A heart condition