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Profiles in Medicine

Unearthing medicinal plants

THE ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY and Biotechnology Research Groups of the University of the West Indies' (UWI's) Basic Medical Sciences Faculty were recently awarded US$125,000 ($5.6 million), the third tranche of a grant by the Organisation of American States...

Smelling sweet or not-so-sweet?
ANIMALS COMMUNICATE their emotional states through body odour. A recently-published study presents evidence that humans may also communicate their emotional state through odour. In this study the persons tested were able to correctly identify...

Hearing disorders
ABOUT 20 per cent of the world's population has a hearing disability. The fluctuating hearing disability associated with the common childhood disorder, otitis media with effusion (or ear infection), is not included in this figure. This large incidence...


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