It's not fishy

Protein from fish scales

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

Food for thought

Iron cooking vessels help combat iron deficiency

Less sulphur - major gains

Pretence of safety

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

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

Rotavirus vaccine on the anvil

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

Potato cure

Edible vaccine for cancer of cervix created by incorporating gene of the cancer-causing virus in potatoes

Harmful sterilisation in West Bengal

A banned female sterilisation method is in use in the rural areas of West Bengal, Karnataka, Punjab and Gujarat. So concludes a study conducted …

A pill a day

Keeps death away

Revamping US healthcare

US politicians and insurance companies claim to offer the best healthcare services in the world. Recently, however, top US experts have admitted …

Herbal remedy

Fake medicines are a dangerous threat in Africa: 3 ways to spot them

The most common fakes tend to be the most popular medicines: Painkillers, antibiotics to treat infection, anti-malarials, anti-retrovirals, …

Pestering the glands

Study says women exposed to pesticides have impaired thyroid gland function

VOC slip-up

USA miscalculates cancer risk

Infertile growth

Pesticide affects women

Disclosure!

US pollution laws are inadequate, reveals EPA report

Non-stick hazard

Genome sequencing data to help in predictive and preventive medicine

Minister Harsh Vardhan claims project will help in cost-effective, precision medicine

In good taste