Follow Up

Tanzania

Are pills doctored?

A Punjab resident holds inferior quality drugs responsible for his son's serious illness

Weak shield

Chickenpox vaccine fails to work in most children

Drug resistance

How the gene responsible acts

Mouse model

To study Down syndrome

Traditional Indian medicinal practices now safe

Bytes

Fish test

...for diabetes

Hooked on iron

New study stresses need to review treatment of hookworm

Regional approach required for treatment of malaria

Indonesia agrees to share bird flu virus samples with WHO

Toxic air hits the crib; especially in India

India records highest increase in air pollution related deaths and infant mortality

Trial and error

Recent notifications offer no security to clinical trial participants

Lung cancer common in Indian men

Breast cancer among women

Life before life

Cancerous virus

Researchers believe that hepatitis virus can cause cancer

Good vibrations

Researchers say electricity does not cause leukaemia

Virus alert

A genetically engineered viral contraceptive for mice could sterilise non-targeted species

Minorities yoked to spin on first AIDS vaccine trials

Indigenous hormone kits

Cheap and stable at high temperature

Mother's touch

Cures from the sea

oral controls viral growth, may help treat cancer

Malaria in a ferment

Using yeast to produce a cure

WHO's Stop TB partnership programme