Birth pangs

Prickly issue

Maximum intake of pesticides is through skin

Brush up law

As many tooth-care products contain harmful tobacco

Cures from the sea

oral controls viral growth, may help treat cancer

Malaria in a ferment

Using yeast to produce a cure

Renal risk

From common medicine to prevent bleeding during cardiac surgery

Cancerous cleaning

Chemical used in cleaning materials may induce breast cancer

Pretence of safety

Study reveals that a new herbicide, Roundup, is also toxic

Food for thought

Iron cooking vessels help combat iron deficiency

Black magic

Scientists develop anti-diabetic drug from jamun

Reason to smile

Tamarind enhances urinary excretion of fluoride

Less sulphur - major gains

Malaria forecast

Meteorology can predict incidence five months in advance

Sunflower power

Curbs the human immunodeficiency virus

Rotavirus vaccine on the anvil

But will it be effective against the huge number of strains found in India?

Puffed out

Exercising after exposure to air pollution can be fatal for heart patients

House warning

Smoke from cooking kills 1.6 million people annually

Nothing is good enough

Even pesticides based on herbal extracts can affect brain functioning

Red alert

Blood storage bags are unhealthy

New thyroid drug

Has a reversible effect

Fluoride for a meal

Bacteria to help tackle fluorosis

Breaking the skin barrier

Genetic source of eczema and a form of asthma located

Deep defence

Why avian flu is rare in human beings

Clues from the Nile

May help with diseases like avian flu and SARS

Drug abuse

Can render ineffective the only antimalarial medicine against Plasmodium falci