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Risky remedy

UK prohibits sale of herbal medicine with harmful side-effects

Cochrane library's database not an unequivocal blessing

News Snippets

Wild animals, birds need wider corridors

Antarctica's volcanic hot seat

Why other African countries need to guard against South Africa COVID-19 variant

WHO and African Centres for Disease Control to strengthen genomic surveillance capacities

New technique can make flexible electronics self-repairing too

Researchers claim the new technique is novel as it does not require rare materials or the addition of any complex circuitry

2016, the year that was: health and medicine

Health spent a lot of time in the spotlight in 2016 and it was a major issue in numerous government reviews

Banning spam

The uk government has proposed a crackdown on the much-hated menace of e-mail spam. It intends to check those indulging in the insidious practice …

On the barrel

Book>> The Squeeze, Oil, Money and Greed in the 20th Century • by Tom Bower, Harper • Rs 450

Science and Technology - Briefs

Science and Technology - Briefs

Call from cave

Bats, largely elusive till now, are slowly revealing their secrets as scientists record and analyse their calls

Water supply faulted

MONEYMAKERS

Flourishing unaided

The AIDS epidemic shows no sign of abating with five million new cases reported in 2001

Untamed bacteria

UK's efforts to control antibiotic-resistant bacteria fails

Green minister gets pink slip

Double legal action

Science 2003

Breakthroughs, and such-like research

Floating islands of the world

Floating islands have fascinated us since ancient times

Review of the film, Sicko

Film>>Sicko, Produced and directed by Michael Moore, 125 minutes, USA

Ashden awards for sustainable development

Bush, global warming and media