Where mind matters

Communication between nerves and the immune system shows how the mind affects the body

Dealing with hunger

Hormone therapy may be the difference between the life and death/or the starving

Staging a comeback

The old glass syringe is back in Calcutta's government hospitals

Tough task

Lost generation

INDIA

ANTI--RABIES DRIVE

UNITED NATION

Fighting malaria

The WHO initiates global move to check the onslaught of malaria

Gene remedy

The Human Genome Project could bring about a breakthrough in cancer treatment

New target

Children may soon sue smoking parents

Sordid state

Access granted

Exporting expertise

Backing a cause

Ivan Illich (1926-2002)

"His thought leads out of the prison of routinized, sterile, preconceived notions"

For our safety

Wonder herb

Harde to combat cell damage induced by nuclear radiation

Check it!

Medical products leach out toxic chemicals

Online

Food for oil

By giving up on traditional oils, we lose out on nutrition

The two Indias

The poor have not gained from India's economic growth, shows the UN human development report

Duty free

Uttar Pradesh can't deliver vaccines to its children. But it wants to import vaccine

Large crisis

AIDS ain't so big

Number of new infections dips in 2004, but is it false relief?