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Lenses favourite

Flying menace

Viral culprit

Mid-life crisis prolonged

High blood pressure when you are over the hill causes 'silent' strokes, which pile up and damage cognitive faculties in your old age

Seal hole, heal heart

Scientists in the US have developed a kit designed to mend torn membranes in heart muscles. Liposomes or little bundles of fat are coming in …

Heal thyself

Beware of the Ganga

A dip in the Ganga was meant to purify both body and soul. But devotees in Bihar have had a bad experience

Show the way, ALF

Harmful traces

TRACE ELEMENTS IN HUMAN NUTRITION AND HEALTH·World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland· Pages 343

Beans can save hearts

Bite of a tick

Perfect ten

Recurrent scourge

Spread of rat fever in Kerala, once again points to the lacuna of the authorities in controlling the disease

Never ceasing wonder

Chimps and AIDS

Shoring up its defences

Oxygen to heal wounds

Advertisements: Flu good, no?

Avian influenza (AI) is spiralling out of control in Asia. So also is the spin being put to the disease. There was the spectacle of Thailand …

South Asia

Cause for alarm?

In wake of bird flu

Biosecurity system proposed

Birds hit cats

Change is needed

Outbreak Outrage

There is a suspicion among African biomedics about the well projected linking of the continent's environment with the emergence of lethal viruses …