Overdose

Agenda: breast cancer

Organ thieves, beware

GLOVE GLITCH

Wholesome

Barefoot doctors

Backward Bihar villagers receive healthcare from barefoot 'first aid physicians'

Human hand inspires scientists

Engineers are trying to develop a mechanical hand that can handle objects with human sensitivity and prove to be a boon to scientists and doctors.

Drug dilemma

Meeting to care

High-pressure juveniles

Alarming figures

IVORY COAST

The bad news is.

Beware of quacks

Lend me your hands

In a major scientific breakthrough, scientists conduct the world's first hand transplant

At the doctors' mercy

Doctor, heal thyself

Health hotline

Slippery bacillus

Despite desperate combing operations, the plague bacillus is playing hide-and-seek with doctors

Irate doctors complain US reforms illegal

The American Medical Association contends that limiting prices or overall spending on health care is unconstitutional

Gandhian scheme provides rural health care

A seWhelp programme provides the poorest villagers in the area surrounding Mahoin Gandhi's Sevagrom ashrom with access to quality medical care.

Light from an area of darkness

Strange but true. Health workers in Africa are successfully using antibiotics to slow down the spread of AIDS

Text care

SMS>> MALARIA • Kenya

Is violent behaviour hereditary?

A recent study suggests a link between genes and foul temper.

The tobacco battle

A section of American doctors raise a hueand cry against the defaulting tobacco industry