Chicken worries

A new strain of influenza virus transmitted to humans from chicken is causing panic in Southeast Asia

Coconut disease

Herbicide resistance

Sure shot!

How the malaria parasite takes out an 'insurance policy' to deal with the immune system

UK's penguins threatened

Zambia

Ouch, it is a mutation

Do headaches, stomach upsets and several other minor ailments have their roots in the speed of genetic mutations?

Sneeze on

There is no cure for a cold

Sleep and hypertension

Watch those flies

An egg a day is OK

The unknown factor revealed

Some people may be predisposed to suffer vertigo due to a weak bone in the temple. And the cure may be quite simple

A mutating monster

Some strains of the AIDS-causing virus are developing resistance to whatever drugs are available

BURKINA FASO

Panic in London

A clean kill

It seems that cleanliness has been overrated

Take heart

Breakthrough!

A cure for the world's most deadly disease, Ebola, is on the anvil

Carry on golfing

Saving one's skin

A possible way of countering the virulence of a fungus

Rs 500 crore lost

Tea: a health drink?

Recent research indicates that drinking tea can prevent cancer and heart diseases. However, not everyone is buying this idea

Intoxicating experience

No jackpot, this

Virus to the rescue