A simple device
But the invention of the stethoscope revolutionised medical diagnosis
Tobacco wars
A QUESTION OF INTENT·David Kessler·Public Affair/BBS Pulications, New York· US $27.50
Not enough
Treatment has reached many but tuberculosis still kills millions
Perpetually ill-prepared
Inept response as mystery fever grips Uttar Pradesh
Divided colours of genomics
WHO reports on the growing 'genetic divide'
Healthy advertising
Are advertisers bound -- legally or ethically -- to take potential health hazards into account?
Remarkably clean
Port cities set up by Dutch colonists had ingenuous drainage systems
Sanitise and rule
How yellow fever became a ruse for the US to occupy Cuba
Drugged by chicken
Antibiotics in meat make disease-causing bacteria resistant to cures
4 flu mutants
Seven eminent virologists discuss the implications with Down To Earth
