Fine print hassles

Chemical manufacturers shaken by India's signing POPs convention

Drug abuse

Can render ineffective the only antimalarial medicine against Plasmodium falci

Glaxo pulls out anti-malaria drugs

Herbs to heal malaria

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Award for ecosecurity

For his outstanding work in fighting malaria, V P Sharma gets the Green Scientist Award 2001

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Mutations that make malaria drugs ineffective discovered

Gene kelch13 associated with malaria resistance

Big mini revolution

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Needed: People's participation

Communities and state governments have to play a more important role

Hassan: Holding on

MRC's operations are still going on in this Karnataka district, but their fate is uncertain

Kheda: Forgotten glory

This is where it all started. And now, there is no sign of past successes

Chennai: beginning of a new policy

New bye-laws might help in dealing with malaria

Pondichery: The gnats live on

Even the memory of initial success of bioenvironmental approach has been wiped off

Goa: Back to square one

For mysterious reasons, the state government is highly sceptical of the MRC's work

Pops out

Mumbai hit with diseases after rains

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Climate change

Scientists make DNA barcode of malaria parasite

It can help prevent spread of drug-resistant malaria from one region to another

Malaria, dengue detection made easy

Doctors evolve mathematical formula to pinpoint most likely cause of fever

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