THE mysteries surrounding the GaVf War Syndrome (Down To Earth, Vol 3, No 15) may finally be laid to rest. The Pentagon has confirmed that the symptoms associated with the syndrome, like

The US Food and Drug Agency recently approved Naltrexone -- a medicine to cure alcoholism. The effectiveness of the drug was studied at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University, USA.

A new anti cancer drug seeks to starve cancerous cells to death

British scientists have evolved a way to make enzymes more tenacious and alter their activity

As the malaria parasite and its mosquito carrier become increasingly immune to pesticides and drugs, a recourse to vaccines seems to be the only option

Delving into the underworld of matter, scientists are coming up with miniaturised miracles

A new drug will reduce the agony and the costs of treating thalassaemia, a hereditary blood disorder

Scientists have devised a new technique to make drugs resembling proteins more effective

TAXOL, the anti-cancer wonder drug extracted from the leaves and bark of the yew tree, has found another target. Researchers at the University of California School of Medicine say that polycystic

SCIENCE appears to have finally found the elusive cure for baldness. Proscar, a drug manufactured by Merck & Co to treat enlarged prostate glands, has an interesting side-effect: in low doses, it

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