HapMap released

Makes for more effective cure of several diseases

Indigenous hormone kits

Cheap and stable at high temperature

Arsenic risk

Different for different people, suggests study

Cholera control

Through a group of viruses

Mother's touch

Cancerous virus

Researchers believe that hepatitis virus can cause cancer

Shaken and stirred

Report focuses on Orissa cyclone's mind-jolting fallout

Minorities yoked to spin on first AIDS vaccine trials

Birth pangs

Prickly issue

Maximum intake of pesticides is through skin

Brush up law

As many tooth-care products contain harmful tobacco

Cures from the sea

oral controls viral growth, may help treat cancer

Renal risk

From common medicine to prevent bleeding during cardiac surgery

Pretence of safety

Study reveals that a new herbicide, Roundup, is also toxic

Food for thought

Iron cooking vessels help combat iron deficiency

Less sulphur - major gains

Malaria forecast

Meteorology can predict incidence five months in advance

Sunflower power

Curbs the human immunodeficiency virus

Rotavirus vaccine on the anvil

But will it be effective against the huge number of strains found in India?

Puffed out

Exercising after exposure to air pollution can be fatal for heart patients

House warning

Smoke from cooking kills 1.6 million people annually

Nothing is good enough

Even pesticides based on herbal extracts can affect brain functioning

Red alert

Blood storage bags are unhealthy

New thyroid drug

Has a reversible effect

Fluoride for a meal

Bacteria to help tackle fluorosis