Matters of the heart

Medical science promises a new lease of life to all potential heart-transplant patients

CHINA

Byte solution for the heart

Doctors may soon use hi-tech computers for the diagnosis of heart patients

Cardiac deaths hereditary

Spy vs spy

The war of wits that goes on between plants and viruses

Town quarantined

MALAYSIA

Unmasking the killer

The virus that caused havoc in Malaysia may not have been JE after all

Only the lonely

Save sheesham

For want of iodine

An iodine-deficient diet may be responsible for the Neanderthals' disappearance

A second chance

Tinkering with the genes can probably give injured hearts a second chance

Grain of truth

Sharp picture

A technique used by astronomers is being used to produce better contact lenses

Heart matters

A new drug that improves the survival of diabetics with heart problems

Cultured eyes

Wanted: hair donors

It may now be possible to transplant hair from one person to the other

Chicken out!

An virus stages a comeback in Hong Kong to kill thousands of birds

Pearls of emotion

Fatal treatment

A burning problem

The foot-and-mouth scare assumes alarming proportions in the UK

A heart condition

RISKY IMPORT

Preventive measure

Twist in a clogged tale

A plastic wire can remove life-threatening brain blood clots