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Economist (London)

  • The warmy city

    In an apparent act of defence, Mother Nature decided to dump snow across the mid-west on April 7th

  • Missing sisters

    In the district of Rohtak, a fairly well-off town in northern India's farm belt, it is estimated that one in every six girls conceived is aborted. Modern ultrasound technology, coupled with a

  • Get on with it

    Dozens of protesters block the entrance to a Cape Town hotel, peering into passing limousines, hoping to find Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, the minister of health. Their posters proclaim that the

  • Four horsemen of the Apocalypse?

    Malaria is unsurprisingly the most troublesome disease in Iwaya. As Anwan Soulu, a local health worker, observes, the dirty water is a breeding ground for mosquitoes. On the plus side, in Nigeria, as

  • For the birds

    While Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) grips the world's attention, the Netherlands has its hands full with a different, and even more deadly, epidemic: avian influenza. Admittedly, as the

  • Set a thief to catch a thief

    It has been known for a long time that some cancers are caused by viruses. The idea that a virus might be used to cure a cancer, though, is a novel one. Dr Fueyo's experiments were on a type of brain

  • The GM gamble

    America has made no secret of its growing annoyance with the European Union's attitude to genetically modified (GM) crops. With many European consumers revolted by the thought of

  • The other AIDS epidemic

    A retrovirus belonging to the family of recently discovered human T-cell leukaemia viruses (HTLV), but clearly distinct from each previous isolate, has been isolated from a Caucasian patient with

  • Ocean's eleventh hour?

    That the seas are becoming overfished has been known for years. What Ransom Myers and Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have shown is just how fast things tare changing.

  • Testing times

    William Osler, one of the founders of modern medicine, observed that the best means of diagnosis was one finger in the throat and one in the rectum. Things have moved on since then, at least in rich

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