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

India's health not my worry

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

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

A simple device

But the invention of the stethoscope revolutionised medical diagnosis

Novel Therapy

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

A shot in the arm for abandoned vaccine trials

With HIV spreading fast in some Third World nations, these countries have decided to end months of uncertainity by opting for vaccine trials …

Lighting up tumours

New chemical compounds have made radiographic imaging for tumour detection cheaper

Herb to the rescue

Are your organs in the right place?

Scientists have hit on a gene that decides exactly where internal organs will be positioned in the body of a mouse

DOCTORS RAPPED

No more shrinking from shrimps

Scientists in Bangalore have identified the protein that makes people allergic to the meat of shrimps, crabs and prawns. Now they will be able to …

Trial by fire

No money for labs in antibiotics research

Though increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics is making it difficult to treat diseases such as malaria, pharmaceutical companies do not …

Polio nemesis dead

Protein provides clue to Alzheimer's disease

Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in treating this old-age disease, with the discovery that abnormal production of proteins, called …

Device Spots potential back pain

AIDS researcher aquitted of misconduct charge

The nature of malaria

A new project is analysing several natural parameters that aid the spread of malaria

Breast milk is best milk

Anti-carcinogenic properties of breast milk come to light

Earful of noise

What is supposed to be a receptacle for sound, sometimes makes quite a racket itself

Craft of the graft

A plastic tube can be used to insert a graft into blood vessels, circumventing the need for bypass surgery

Hook in the gut

Scientists are striving to develop a vaccine against hookworm that is rampant in the Third World

Down the nuclear trail

Incidence of Down's syndrome linked to fallout from nuclear weapons testing

Saved by a cuppa cha

Green tea could prevent you from becoming liverish and weak-hearted

Down to the bones

Mercilessly lethal osteoporosis - the withering of a body's bone mass - may finally have met its match