Fatal dose

Vitamin A supplements claim the lives of 17 children in Assam

Killer within the bug

Vaccine developed against kala azar

Asthma and ozone

Children face a greater risk

Drug row

Cornucopia of cures

Genome of life saving bacterium is sequenced

Who to trust?

Commercial consideration are undermining the reliability of clinical trials

Proving its metal

A plant derivative can kill cancer cells by targeting at their high iron concentration

Big wonder

Homoeopathy to combat the arsenic menace

In denial

Mystery fever kills hundreds; government clueless

Waste power

A fuel cell produces hydrogen from dissolved organic matter

Bytes

Gene is Africans shuts the body's immune system

A gene that shuts down the body's immune system

Avian returns

Bird flu resurfaces, exposes weakness of testing system

Research must go on

An icmr workshop shows developing researchers ways to live with trips

AIDS came to US from Haiti say researchers from University of Arizona

Gold salts to treat arthritis

Malaria vaccine fails to protect people in Mali

Sleep deprivation affects brain cell growth

Over production of enzyme triggers dengue

Protein lack

Virus to kill cancer

Following rules doesn't pay

Breach in drug resistance

New synthetic compound works differently on malaria

Drug research for children lags behind that for adults; WHO steps in to change it

Bacterial infections, such as pneumonia, neonatal sepsis, and gastrointestinal infections, are the leading causes of death among children worldwide

Winning laurels

A new method for discovering important chemicals that could damage the nervous system gains a US patent for its inventors