Bittersweet medicine

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Inducing cell death to fight cancer

Some scientists claim tumours might be formed because cells refuse to die -- and not because they multiply at a high rate.

Foetal tissue can cure terminal diseases

Tissue taken from aborted foetuses and implanted into the bodies of patients suffering from several incurable diseases has shown encouraging results

AIDS drug trial leaves bitter taste behind

AIDS victims the world over are dismayed by the discovery that taking azidothymidine as soon as HIV infection is confirmed does not delay death …

Caffeine could fight cancer

Research shows that the once-dreaded caffeine can be used in the battle against certain cancers

The good that smoking does

Studies suggest smoking protects against diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, but many scientists and funding agencies are not convinced.

Cocktail aid

An exorbitant wonder 'double-drug' developed for improving survival chances from AIDS may elude needy patients in Africa and Asia

A matter of the mind

Mind-body medicine: in the realm of the possible but wholly inexplicable, this loose curative system has more takers every day

Is HIV harmless?

A group of scientists believe that HIV does not cause the dreaded Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Medicine malady

A new study indicates that microbes can develop resistance even if the intake of antibiotics is minimised

Curbing nicotine dependence

The cure for problems like drug addiction and Parkinsons disease can be found but not before some unknown ingredients in cigarette smoke are isolated

Sweet smell of sugar

Researchers have developed a painless technique for diabetes patients to regulate their glucose levels

Smooth operators

Tiny snake-like robotic appendages that worm into the human body and perform complicated operations. That's surgery of the future

Keep talking

Once the electropalatograph hits the market, that's what people with speech problems will do easily: talk

Molly, the girl?

Science is probably going to ensure that people will be cloned eventually as was Dolly, the sheep?

Cancerous route

Better cancer drugs may be on the anvil with researchers finding a cell protein that helps cancer spread

From the blurbs

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'Privatisation can be a major threat to medical research'

Robin Fox, 54, the editor since 1989 of the premier international medical journal, Lancet, was in New Delhi recently for the Lancet Grand Round …

Almost half of doctors in US from lower-income countries

India has spent around $1,850 million on 53,000 medical graduates practicing in the US

Molecular solutions

Nurr-1, a key harmonal protein, might lead to a therapy for Parkison's disease

Skin Culture

Stress and miscarriage

Foetal cure

Due recognition

Daily supplement

Long feared for its toxicity, a new study lauds selenium for reducing the risk of some cancers