Nothing is good enough

Even pesticides based on herbal extracts can affect brain functioning

Red alert

Blood storage bags are unhealthy

Rotavirus vaccine on the anvil

But will it be effective against the huge number of strains found in India?

New thyroid drug

Has a reversible effect

Fluoride for a meal

Bacteria to help tackle fluorosis

Breaking the skin barrier

Genetic source of eczema and a form of asthma located

Deep defence

Why avian flu is rare in human beings

Clues from the Nile

May help with diseases like avian flu and SARS

Drug abuse

Can render ineffective the only antimalarial medicine against Plasmodium falci

A pill a day

Keeps death away

Marauding Marburg

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

Cancer cure

Straight from the brain

Marine antibiotic

From a microbe found in the Sunderbans

HIV more deadly compared to similar viruses

What makes HIV lethal

Herbal remedy

Pestering the glands

Study says women exposed to pesticides have impaired thyroid gland function

VOC slip-up

USA miscalculates cancer risk

Infertile growth

Pesticide affects women

Disclosure!

US pollution laws are inadequate, reveals EPA report

Non-stick hazard

How smoking causes cancer

Researchers discover the cellular reactions that trigger tumours

Structure of key TB protein unraveled

Scientists unravel the structure of key TB protein

No breather in sight

Research reinforces theory that air pollution and smoking perpetrate asthma

Cord blood: Affordable cure for malaria-related anaemia patients

Cord blood helps malaria-related anaemia patients

Genome sequencing data to help in predictive and preventive medicine

Minister Harsh Vardhan claims project will help in cost-effective, precision medicine