Medicine Nobel 2021 to Julius and Patapoutian for work on stimuli and nerve impulses
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian discover heat receptors and ion channels that further our understanding on pain
Dearth of doctors: Odisha lets pharmacists prescribe meds from a list
As many as 1,286 posts of doctors of the 8,729 sanctioned for government hospitals are vacant.
Lassa fever: Why there’s a call to declare a health emergency in Nigeria
The Nigerian Academy of Science has called for the current outbreak of Lassa fever in Africa’s most populous nation to be declared a …
Ayurveda offers remedy for failing memory
After yielding successful formulations like Liv. 52 and Guglip, Ayurveda now holds out promise of a new range of drugs to treat mental disorders.
Righting the target
Clearer understanding of an enzyme's role could lead to pain killers with less acute side-effects
Taking a short cut
A new method of drug development which expedites the lengthy process of scanning thousands of possible combinations, could lower drug prices …
Protected by pregnancy
A protein produced by pregnant women is found useful in preventing the development of skin tumours
The red tape vs Kanis
The forest department reserves the right to conserve arogyapacha, and prevents Kanis from selling it outside
The miracle-makers
Scientists are only now finding out the Kanis' knowledge of herbal remedies. The most outstanding find so far is arogyapacha
Super aspirin makes a debut
For those suffering with heart diseases, scientists just found drugs that are more effective than aspirin
Study shows social stigma comes in the way of alcoholics opting for treatment
A study says that almost half of the affected were too embarrassed to undertake treatment
Gilead expands hepatitis C licensing pacts with Indian companies
New programme introduces coercion and policing upon medical providers and may result in treatment interruptions for patients
Thirst for profits rises as disease spreads
Even as AIDS spreads throughout the world, Australians are determined to get their share of the profits from the use of a shrub that halts …
Bringing better health to the Indian woman
Efforts are on to tackle the abysmal state of female health in India, especially among the poorer sections
In dubious battle
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has failed to curb illegal trade in Indian wildlife and wildlife products. …
Troubled by breath
Those who have had fewer respiratory diseases when young are the ones who are more susceptible to asthma
Loss of the wild
Greed has taken a heavy toll on the wealth of herbs in India. Manufacturers of herbal products are cutting the very branch on which the industry …
Building bridges
Both allopathy and Indian systems of medicine can gain from each other, provided practitioners interact with an open mind
Perjury and other afflictions
While the market for herbal preparations is maturing, laws and regulations have failed to keep pace with it
Eat sauce, fight cancer
Go grab a slice of pizza and be liberal with the ketchup. The tomato paste may help prevent many types of cancers
Beyond the acceptance level
Children in the US suffer lower IQ levels even at acceptable levels of lead in the blood
Tropical pill
Medicines are for the rich, not for fighting tropical diseases afflicting millions in developing nations. Pharmaceutical companies seem to have …
'You cannot balance an economy by unbalancing human lives'
Development economist Sir Richard Jolly has been Principal Coordinator of UNDP's Human Development Report. He is also Chairman of the …
Various pathogens increasingly becoming resistant to critically important antimicrobials: ICMR report
Resistance of common pathogens more pronounced to fluoroquinolones, carbapenems, third generation cephalosporins classes of antibiotics
We are all consuming a deadly cocktail of medicine residue
Reports suggest such is the medicine residue in water bodies that fish is changing character; oral contraceptive residue makes them ‘…