Matters of the heart

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

MALAYSIA

Unmasking the killer

The virus that caused havoc in Malaysia may not have been JE after all

Only the lonely

Save sheesham

For want of iodine

An iodine-deficient diet may be responsible for the Neanderthals' disappearance

A second chance

Tinkering with the genes can probably give injured hearts a second chance

Grain of truth