Making a killing

More revelations about how Africans are being used as guinea pigs for unethical drug tests

Ecstasy and agony

Growing killer

As the menace of AIDS spreads in India, there is an interest in traditional cures

Taste that

...could kill skin cancer cells

Calling trouble

Mobile phones damage brain cells

Taken to task

US to indict biotech company for misleading investors

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Healers in arms

The conflict between allopathy and homeopathy is an old one

Easy tuberculosis detection test for children

Bird flu virus cannot trigger human pandemic

India advances in cancer diagnosis, treatment

Device to screen patients from lung cancer

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Carcinogenic enzymes blocked in human body

Yoga helps reduce epileptic fits

Bile helps fight cholera

Neisseria's game plan

‘Homeopathy no better than placebo’

It should not be used to treat chronic and serious diseases, say Australian researchers

IMA demands regulation of antibiotics in poultry

Calls for a meeting of experts to chart a roadmap

Moving target

Drug targets body’s immunity instead of virus to cut flu deaths

Reprieve for the killer

Smallpox virus stocks to be kept for research until 2002

Paradox, at the altitude

Mild asthma gets better at higher altitudes

Hope in sight

US appeals court rules in favour of Bhopal gas victims

Green drink

Deadly havens