A pain in the back

Chiropractic gradually gains recognition as scientific research gives it a better rating

Fly low

Life after death

Technology allows doctors to retrieve sperms from a dead man and impregnate his widow

Washed and cleaned

Can household detergents fight cancer? Canadian scientists think they can

Antifreeze

Scientists figure out the common cold "handshake"

Cancer cure

Medical science may soon declare cancer, a disease that has eluded it for years, dead

Under pressure

Bacteria and hypertension: a new study says the two are actually linked

Heart-friendly pill

Coffee? Passe

Violating our patents

Genetic defence

Mobile mayhem

Using that mobile phone might boost your business, but it might fry your brain

New blood, new hope

Medical science finds a cheaper, better alternative for bone marrow transplant

Matters of the heart

Medical science promises a new lease of life to all potential heart-transplant patients

Sounds of silence

From battling cancer, to curing fractures in no time at all... Ultrasound is coming of age

Filters that failed

Byte solution for the heart

Doctors may soon use hi-tech computers for the diagnosis of heart patients

Checking infection

Painful influenza shots may soon become a thing of the past

Cardiac deaths hereditary

Seeing red

An unusual craving for tomatoes could mean anaemia

Marinate to prevent cancer

Summer-borns are healthier

Bad medicine

Britain bans a Chinese medicine after reports of kidney failures

Blood-clotting bandage

Staying alive

Humans are not the only ones whose survival depends on keeping together