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
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 …
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
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
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
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 to the bones
Mercilessly lethal osteoporosis - the withering of a body's bone mass - may finally have met its match
Teasing death
The trials run before introducing drugs into the market are peppered with death-inviting inaccuracies and even brazen lies
End of innocence
Two recently published American studies reveal that cytomegalovirus (CMV) can cause arterial blockages in infected individuals
The other course
Traditional curative systems like ayurveda, homoeopathy, acupuncture... are being revived as alternative medicine. But in India and the Orient, …
Hampering growth
A drug which functions in a unique fashion is being used to cure small-cell lung cancer in the UK. Researchers are looking for further uses of …
A snake in your guts!
"Eeeks", you may say, but a new robot which can travel down your intestines is opening up exciting possibilities of medical breakthrough, though …