New regulations

Cheaper seats clogged veins

Cramped economy class seats and long distance flights is a deadly combination for many

No blurry vision

Veggie's heartaches

Vegetarians are falling prey to various heart ailments

Maladjusted

Modifying mosquitoes to fight malaria proves unsuccessful

Database of potential bioweapons

A simple device

But the invention of the stethoscope revolutionised medical diagnosis

Group defence

Diverse blood types evolved to provide immunity against infections

Its TB, said the giant rat

Stem the danger

Government evolving guidelines for stem cell treatment

Adept at adaptation

Human genes are evolving with changing environment

Listen to what the brain whispers

ICMR releases guidelines for artificial intelligence use in the health sector

Guiding document outlines 10 key patient-centric ethical principles for AI application in health sector 

2 of 3 child deaths in India due to malnutrition: Report

Children under 5 in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Assam and Rajasthan worst-hit, finds study of 2017 data by ICMR, PHFI and NIN

India's health not my worry

Thousands of Indian doctors migrate to other countries every year, while many posts remain vacant in India 

Book review: HIV/AIDS and Traditional Medicine

Indian systems of medicine could receive a big boost if they could yield a cure for just one major disease. And, theoretically, there can be a …

Novel Therapy

Bimal K Banik is President’s Endowed Professor and professor of chemistry at College of Science and Mathematics, University of Texas-Pan …

Interest in Physics research low among students in sub-Saharan Africa

Lack of encouragement, low awareness about career paths and professional opportunities are key obstacles

First human-monkey embryos created – a small step towards a huge ethical problem

We believe monkeys to have lower moral status than humans; but what about human-monkey chimeras?

Antimicrobial resistance has a huge economic impact too

An additional 24 million people, most of them in poor countries, will be forced into poverty by 2030 due to costs of hospital visits arising out …

Cancer now kills more than double the Indians it did in 1990

An ICMR study finds that while 3.82 lakh cancer patients died in 1990, the number jumped to 8.13 lakh in 2016

Making sex count

In the annals of modern medicine, medical research experiments have always been sexist. The tide is finally turning

Helping those in need: AIIMS 'adopt a patient' scheme is pretty great

Of the 200,000 patients admitted in AIIMS every year, around 30%-40% cannot pay for daily medical needs

ICMR releases new draft guidelines on bio-medical research involving children

Children’s nod would be compulsory for making them part of any clinical trials, say guidelines

Click the sick

Visual documentation of illnesses is integral to healthcare in the West but a rarity in India. Sayantan Bera charts the hows and whys of medical …