From RTI to dam safety, highly contested Bills to be tabled in Parliament’s monsoon session

A slew of crucial Bills are likely to be tabled in the session, which will have only 18 working days

Poo transplants can eliminate two superbugs from the gut: mice study

Two of the most common antibiotic-resistant bacteria circulating in hospitals can be wiped out by transplanting faeces from a healthy animal into …

Plant a bone

Plant-based treatment of osteoporosis is gaining ground. The Central Drug Research Institute is adding new dimensions to ancient remedies

Vyapam virus

The scam in Madhya Pradesh exposes the criminal nexus which has infected India's medical education system

Ayurvedic cure

A proposal to set up ayurvedic centres in hospitals across the country to treat cancer patients is on the anvil

Not immune to threat

A compound commonly found in fungicides and pesticides causes irreversible damage to our immune system

Hepatitis afflicts many HIV/AIDS patients, but there is no policy for them

Health ministry and AIDS control body keep shifting responsibility; no statistics available on patients with co-infection

IMA demands regulation of antibiotics in poultry

Calls for a meeting of experts to chart a roadmap

‘Homeopathy no better than placebo’

It should not be used to treat chronic and serious diseases, say Australian researchers

Moving target

Drug targets body’s immunity instead of virus to cut flu deaths

Reprieve for the killer

Smallpox virus stocks to be kept for research until 2002

Paradox, at the altitude

Mild asthma gets better at higher altitudes

Hope in sight

US appeals court rules in favour of Bhopal gas victims

Green drink

Deadly havens

Malachite green: a carcinoge

Dial in a headache

A study shows headache is more common among mobile phone users

Bytes

Womb woes

Pollution can lead to birth defects

Amid doubts

Stem cell research may not be the answer to human health problems

Fat-finding mission

On-off switch for fat formation identified

Crunch metals cure diarrhoea

Wheat wonder

Juice of seedlings good for cancer patients

BYTES

Yellow metal can fight cancer