A mutating monster

Some strains of the AIDS-causing virus are developing resistance to whatever drugs are available

Tea: a health drink?

Recent research indicates that drinking tea can prevent cancer and heart diseases. However, not everyone is buying this idea

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 …

Is institutional racism for real?

A recent review of editorial boards of ten leading international psychiatry journals has revealed almost nil representation from developing countries

India to get medical devices parks

Recommendations by a government panel include increased production of indigenous devices and a cap on their prices

Calling Ramdev’s yogic bluff

Book>> Yoga and Other Quackery Exposed • by N C Asthana and Priyamvada Asthana • Asiatech Publishers, Inc • Price: Rs 275

Toxic detectors

DNA can be used to detect dangerous metals

On hold

Alarming rise in fungal infection cases: PGIMER study

In spite of higher incidence of cases as compared to the West, India lacks infrastructure required for testing of fungal infections

Simply Put: AIIMS Darbhanga

Simply Put: Freedom to Express COVID-19

COVID-19: Govt’s survey exposes lack of preparedness across India

Lack of PPEs, ventilators and overall hospital preparedness reported as major concerns

Curbing TB still a challenge

As WHO bans blood test, scientists explore advanced diagnostic technologies  

Obese exposure

Detecting the body's fat deposits

Tracking tumours

A new technology could take out the agony from cancer detecting tests

Potent surgery

Vasectomy may not be all it's cut out to be

Placental help

Blood stem cells from the placenta could be a major help in treating leukaemic kids

Monitoring the killer

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Replicating virus

Researchers create a near replica of the Hepatitis C virus

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Sugar for the heart

The malefactor

Does global warming lead to more malaria in East Africa?

Ivan Illich (1926-2002)

"His thought leads out of the prison of routinized, sterile, preconceived notions"

Curtain raiser

Ways to prevent skin ulcers