Hearty duo!

Chocolate bar and red wine -- a great combination to keep the heart ticking strong

Attention heart patients

Puppy problem

PESTS ATTACK

Of bees, flowers and robbery

Earlier thought to be plant-friendly, the bumblebee actually inhibits plant reproduction

Distant relatives

COLOMBIA

Smoking your skin

Change for the worse

Cancer could result from a disease -countering trick gone wrong

Cure for ebola

FUDGING FIGURES

CHINA

Canines too fall prey

Encephalitis returns to haunt Assam

Deer disease

Successful fighting

Fowl play

Usage of antibiotics in farm animals could be making human microbes drug-resistant

Fertility factor

Virus alert

Anthrax suspected

Dengue outbreak in Brazil prompting emergency health measures

As the world gets increasingly warmer and wetter, mosquito-related disease outbreaks are predicted to rise and spread

Limited access to medication in Sub-Saharan Africa likely to stall hypertension treatment

Hypertension is the most important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, which are the leading global cause of death

Online food products ‘too sweet’

While sweet taste was mentioned in 11 per cent of product reviews, saltiness was rarely mentioned

Sunscreen wouldn’t have saved Bob Marley from melanoma, and it won’t help other dark-skinned people

Melanoma is a potentially deadly form of skin cancer linked to overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun

Snakebite: a public health problem you don’t hear of

Call to end neglected tropical diseases brings this major public health problem into focus