Iodine blues

Hideous discovery

CHINA

Rock deaf

Rising mercury kills 150

Chemical backlash

War veterans in the US call for a post-mortem on the effects of Agent Orange

Fruity cure

Back from the past

Pesticides that have for decades been out of use are now being detected in fresh products

Pills for health?

Consuming vitamin and mineral supplements can be unsafe

Killing pain

The hole truth of cigarettes

Set immobile

Magnetic wood planks can curb inconsiderate mobile phone use

The malefactor

Males are more susceptible to chronic arsenic poisoning than females

Air sick

Another reason for not giving excess antibiotics to farm animals

More skeletons tumble out

Toxic hybrid

GM crops are unsafe, right?

Pill poppers beware

Indiscriminate antibiotic use has created drug resistance in harmful bacteria

Undermined

Orissa villagers say relocate us, we want to leave right away

Invader's curse

Transfusion spoiler

KENYA

Another Bhopal spectre

DISEASE DETAILS

In Focus

Moneymakers