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Leprosy looms

Latest survey dismisses government’s claims of disease elimination  

Supreme Court allows export of unused endosulfan

Calls for strict monitoring while packaging

SC seeks details on safe export of endosulfan

Interim ban on the pesticide to continue

Root out SARS

Mulethi affects coronavirus

Marauding Marburg

A viral disease that has no cure leaves a trail of death

Cancer cure

Straight from the brain

Cigarette smoke may lead to cataract

HIV more deadly compared to similar viruses

What makes HIV lethal

Deadline fails

CAG report finds promotion irregularities at ICMR institute

Irregular payments of over Rs 2 crore at NICED; Promotions ante-dated by upto 34 months

Healing a tradition

A low-tech online network connects traditional healers and patients in Bhopal

Dengue on the rise: global burden is three times WHO estimate

Study shows India contributed more than one-third of burden in 2010

Private doctors strike work to protest proposed legislation

Supreme Court notice to Indian Medical Association on plea challenging strike

Pestering the glands

Study says women exposed to pesticides have impaired thyroid gland function

In Short

Tough trial

Can Indian traditional medicines transfer their ancient efficacy to the modern era?

Infertile growth

Pesticide affects women

Cancer kills 400,000 each year, but screening for the disease yet to take off

Lack of trained manpower main hurdle, says health secretary

Lured, used and discarded

Fifteen people hospitalised after unethical drug trial in Hyderabad

Illogical formula

Lopsided drug trial compensation plan marginalises the unemployed and homemakers

Barriers under pestle

There is an urgent need to rationalise traditional medicinal systems to stop unscrupulous use

How smoking causes cancer

Researchers discover the cellular reactions that trigger tumours

Herbal cure to cancer

Structure of key TB protein unraveled

Scientists unravel the structure of key TB protein