Private cord blood banking discouraged
If the recommendations in 1999 by the American Academy of Pediatrics were strongly in favour of public cord blood banking,
Read MoreEditorial: Another global outbreak of bird flu
Published in The Hindu on February 12, 2007 With the recent outbreak of bird flu in a farm in Suffolk,
Read MoreBird flu: shorter interval between outbreaks
Published in The Hindu on February 8, 2007 A second instance of avian influenza spreading across the globe and to
Read MoreEditorial: Denying the right to choose
Published in The Hindu on February 5, 2007 A decade after the birth of the world’s first cloned animal, Dolly,
Read MoreStem cell lines: Misrepresentation of information in report
Published in The Hindu on January 25, 2007 In what may appear as yet another attempt by the Bush administration
Read MoreMilk and meat from cloned animals
Published in The Hindu on January 11, 2007 When the team at Roslin Institute in Midlothian, U.K., successfully cloned Dolly,
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Stemming the rot by making science attractive
In an effort to reverse the decline in the number of students taking up science as a subject of study
Read MoreEditorial: Accountability in clinical trials
Published in The Hindu on August 1, 2006 In a bid to meet a long felt need for more transparency
Read MoreEditorial: Breastfeeding as a biological norm
Published in The Hindu on June 5, 2006 The `International child growth standard’ recently announced by the World Health Organisation
Read MoreJunk food: curbing direct marketing to children
Published in The Hindu on November 23, 2006 The ability of even a three-year-old child to identify and use pester-power
Read MoreEditorial: Countering an alarming trend
Published in The Hindu on November 22, 2006 If communicable diseases were the bane of society the world over some
Read MoreEditorial: Practical approach to malaria control
Published in The Hindu on August 17, 2006 In a clear departure from its earlier stand on dichlorodiphenyl-trichloro ethane (DDT)
Read MoreNew bird flu strain emerges
Published in The Hindu on November 9, 2006 In a move that is hardly surprising, China has denied the emergence
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