Porcine prescription

Pancreatic cells from pigs could help treat diabetics

Mean migraine

Body balance

Two studies suggest that the brain and the nervous system are loaded in favour of symmetry

Cloying contraceptive

Want a son?

Hypnosis in surgery

Fool's paradise

Ignorance is not bliss after all

Deadly predictions

Frist blow

US Senate majority party leader opposes Bush

Heady days ahead?

Will cannabis be rethought fit for medical use?

What ethics?

Human clinical trial case exposes ICMR's irresponsibility

Ironed out

How the TB germ thrives

India gasps for oxygen: How some states are holding up

Lack of medical oxygen has endangered lives of COVID-19 patients in state after state

Meet Mesentery, the newest occupant of your gut

The anatomic description that had been laid down over 100 years of anatomy was incorrect

Cracking the cancer code

In recent years, scientists have closed in on cancer, pinning down precisely how its hellish manifestations are caused and spread. Their findings …

Antidote to cancer

Scientists have discovered an oestrogen derivative that controls tumours and could be effective against other diseases like arthritis

Executing a killer

Should the remaining two stocks of the smallpox virus be wiped out permanently from the face of the earth? The question, which brings to fore …

Cluster headache is more than ‘just a headache’ — but is often misdiagnosed

Cluster headache is often misdiagnosed as migraine, sinusitis or dental problems 

Our discovery can help cancer patients

Amarnath Maitra , professor in the department of chemistry, University of Delhi, has developed a new way of administering drugs to the human body.…

As good as embryonic stem cells

Glove in hand

Powder used in surgeons' gloves can cause inflammation andpost-operative infection

Changing colours

Revenue targets, management staff making doctors pawns in corporate hospitals: Study

‘Corporate hospitals have reduced patients to factories’

I think, therefore I get well

Cures based on the mind-body nexus are gradually finding favour

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