World Heart Day is being observed on September 29 and this year's focus is on cardiovascular disease prevention among women and children. Although poverty, malaria, AIDS and chronic diseases account for more than 53 per cent of all deaths, with people moving up the socio-economic ladder, lifestyle diseases have also emerged as a major killer,...

Swiss scientists have discovered that a natural product secreted by a soil bacterium may offer a new cure for drug-resistant tuberculosis. Researchers from Switzerland found that pyridomycin, a natural antibiotic produced by the bacterium Dactylosporangium fulvum is active against many of the drug-resistant types of the tuberculosis bacterium...