Avian trouble

Influenza virus in Asia fast developing drug resistance

India's HIV toll

NACO, UNAIDS try figuring

Remember the adage?

Prevention is better than cure for gallbladder cancer too!

Another new strain

Aiding AIDS

Why the disease progresses quickly in Indians

Double jeopardy

Malaria can double concentration of HIV

Gene arsenal

To combat AIDS

Migration malaria

How human migration spreads malaria to new areas

Sudb's bluff

Very fat bill: Obesity Research

64 per cent of Americans are obese. This is costing the nation a pretty weighty penny. According to the study -- State-Level Estimates of Annual …

Surgery risks are disproportionately high for women in Africa: New study

There’s a need for country-specific and condition-specific research into women’s surgical care and ways to improve these outcomes on …

AI helps identify bat species suspected of carrying Nipah virus

Based on traits of bats to carry the virus, researchers have pointed out that more bat species in India may be reservoirs of Nipah than the only …

Overabundance of a protein one of the causes of Parkinson’s disease: study

Parkinson’s disease results in declining physical functions, most noticeable of them being uncontrollable tremors

Animal testing need not be repeated for registration of drugs in India

Animal rights activists had been demanding that the duplication of animal tests must be stopped

Why choosing the right surgeon matters even more than you know

It’s conventional wisdom that there are “good” and “bad” hospitals — and that selecting a good one can …

Stress pass

Ayurvedic formulations have been found effective in countering the stresses of living in high altitudes

Gene blues

What determines a person's behaviour through the vicissitudes of life: genes, environment or both? There are many who believe that genetic …

Bittersweet medicine

The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine Edited by Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams Price: Not stated

Inducing cell death to fight cancer

Some scientists claim tumours might be formed because cells refuse to die -- and not because they multiply at a high rate.

Foetal tissue can cure terminal diseases

Tissue taken from aborted foetuses and implanted into the bodies of patients suffering from several incurable diseases has shown encouraging results

AIDS drug trial leaves bitter taste behind

AIDS victims the world over are dismayed by the discovery that taking azidothymidine as soon as HIV infection is confirmed does not delay death …

Caffeine could fight cancer

Research shows that the once-dreaded caffeine can be used in the battle against certain cancers

The good that smoking does

Studies suggest smoking protects against diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, but many scientists and funding agencies are not convinced.

Cocktail aid

An exorbitant wonder 'double-drug' developed for improving survival chances from AIDS may elude needy patients in Africa and Asia

A matter of the mind

Mind-body medicine: in the realm of the possible but wholly inexplicable, this loose curative system has more takers every day