Surgery for blood pressure

Banned drug approved

CONGO

Armed for Alzheimer's

Life after death

Technology allows doctors to retrieve sperms from a dead man and impregnate his widow

Injurious to health

Stop smoking for a day and you may live to regret it, say researchers in the UK

Washed and cleaned

Can household detergents fight cancer? Canadian scientists think they can

Aid for AIDS

Cancer cure

Medical science may soon declare cancer, a disease that has eluded it for years, dead

Heart-friendly pill

Coffee? Passe

Tumour. Tamed

UNITED NATIONS

Lead poisoning

Veterinary trouble

Easing pain

Pain relief

Heart matters

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

NIGERIA

Drug-resistant HIV

Anti-HIV drugs could soon fail

Great survivor

Aiding aids

Malaria

Breakthroughs in malaria research may well go the way of the other 'diseases of the poor'

Skinned at last

Gene mutation resulting in skin cancer identified

Source of the scourge

Unsterilised syringes used in Africa in the 1950s may be at the root of AIDS