Database of potential bioweapons

Peeling touch

Government policy stops prevention of lifestyle diseases

Sterilized but infectious

Drug-resistant bacteria spreads between hospitals  

Most disease maps unreliable

Disease maps help capture distribution of pathogens and their transmission intensity. An international team of researchers has reviewed 355 of …

Dealing with hunger

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

JAPAN

Staking a claim

Look out

Two viruses from the infamous retrovirus family found

Bad for wildlife, bad for people

Killer stalks sanctuary

On the comeback trail

The scientific community is trying hard to combat communicable diseases which have made a comeback

HEALTH HAZARD

A diseased world

SARS - India's wrong diagnosis

The Union government's recent declaration that India does not have any cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) may have allayed the …

Putting an end to guinea worms

The philippines

Containing the contagion

Deceptive bug behind Andhra disease

A seemingly harmless germ has been on a killing spree. This is what has been detected by the National Institute of Virology in respect of the …

Understanding the bug

Book>> The Viral Storm • by Nathan D Wolfe • Penguin • Rs 450

UNITED NATIONS

Health class

Enemies of health and allies of poverty join hand to create global havoc, leaving different marks on different classes

Hospital infections fear frogs

What comes after phase six?

Nano fix

Autoclave uses nanoparticles, sunlight to sterilise hospital equipment

Virus attack

A new study says that infectious viruses increase the risk of heart attacks