Cheaper H1N1 kits to hit market

Indian companies develop detection kits for swine flu

Hepatitis C: India has failed to tackle the deadly disease

Chronic HCV infection accounts for 12-32 per cent of liver cancer and 10-20 per cent of cirrhosis cases in India. Most people with chronic …

Sweet miracle

A cheap hand-held device that does multiple tests accurately and quickly could revolutionise diabetic treatment

Beating the hell out of death

Industrial houses and research organisations must join hands and rethink about Indian health standards

Foolproof tool to detect TB

the diagnosis of tuberculosis is likely to be faster and more reliable in the future with researchers from the uk-based University of Oxford …

A reliable HIV self-test

Nitika Pant Pai, assistant professor at the department of medicine, McGill University, Canada, and her team have analysed data on acceptability …

Imaging interiors

An unexplored region of the electromagnetic spectrum is to be exploited for imaging

Bloody disclosure

Lethal and tiny air pollutants can reach deep into human bloodstream

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SARS - India's wrong diagnosis

The Union government's recent declaration that India does not have any cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) may have allayed the …

TB's hidden links

About 40-70 per cent of tuberculosis patients suffer from mental health disorders. As India has more than one-fourth of global TB cases and deaths,…

Break the resistance

India’s TB control programme needs to engage the private sector

Proof in the pee

Simple urine test can help identify Kawasaki disease

Zika could cost Latin America, Caribbean countries $18 billion by 2018

In some countries, the total cost of Zika could exceed two per cent of their GDP

Get a 3-6 years head start

Detecting proteins

Africa fails its young scientists by not investing in their innovations

Unless African governments put their money where their mouths are, innovative advances from young scientists on the continent will be stifled

Cough resistance

Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment in India is plagued by delayed diagnostics and inaccurate treatment procedures. An initiative in …

Winning laurels

A new method for discovering important chemicals that could damage the nervous system gains a US patent for its inventors

MRI scan gets sharper

New MRI offers five times more accurate breast cancer scans

Cancer research goes 3D

3D cell cultures may help understand the disease better

A nano cure for cancer

Early detection made possible

Know as it pains

iSens diagnoses heart attack in less than 10 minutes

Here is what Indian scientists achieved in 2018

Here is a collection of 15 such stories that gives a glimpse of important developments reported by Indian scientists during the year.

AIDS transmitted through artificial insemination

Subha (not her real name), 35, had been married for over 10 years, but was still childless. Doctors attributed this condition to her husband's …