Cornucopia of cures

Genome of life saving bacterium is sequenced

Who to trust?

Commercial consideration are undermining the reliability of clinical trials

Proving its metal

A plant derivative can kill cancer cells by targeting at their high iron concentration

Taming toxicity

Selenium, an easily available element, may be the answer to arsenic-related health problems

SINGAPORE

Green alchemy

Ayurvedic drugs will cost less with microorganisms yielding gold

Not enough

Treatment has reached many but tuberculosis still kills millions

The girl in Sierra Leone

Health gap widens between the poorest and the rest

No lifesaver this

Still no viable alternative for drugs price control

Medicine mite

Used in over 50 formulations, the red mite of Chhattisgarh might be heading for extinction

Research must go on

An icmr workshop shows developing researchers ways to live with trips

Malaria vaccine fails to protect people in Mali

No consensus on vulture census, conservation

Decoding antibiotic resistance in bacteria

Troubled exchange

Grow a curry leaf plant

And control type 2 diabetes

Taste killers

Those with a sweet tooth might want to read on

News Snippets

Of men and muscles

Breach in drug resistance

New synthetic compound works differently on malaria

In Court

Cold chain to hit 45°C

Vaccines preserved in sugars greatly lower maintenance costs  

WHO influenced H1N1 vaccine purchase?

Experts on WHO panels did not report conflict of interest

Costly active pharma ingredients from China create healthcare hurdles in India

Nearly 70% of the country’s APIs are imported from China; the dependence is around 90% for certain life-saving antibiotics 

Software outsmarts drug research

Now, a programme can bypass patented drug pathways and create synthetically-produced medicines