Pickle, tea and a spice

Weeds of fortune

Easy to switch: Here is why India’s dairy farmers should shift to ethnoveterinary medicines

Low-cost ethnoveterinary medicines can help curb the use of antibiotics in Indian dairy sector and combat the overlooked pandemic of …

Nobel prize: Svante Pääbo’s ancient DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human

Pääbo sequenced genomes of our extinct relatives Neanderthals and Denisovans; These discoveries resulted in novel insights into human …

Not so wild: Sickle senna is widely available, nutritious but not much known

Sickle senna, a widely available but little-known herb, is ready to take on the pharma industry

Delhi's walking medicine bank

Omkar Nath Sharma has made it his vocation to collect unused medicines and distribute them to the poor

Malaria parasite’s drug resistance decoded

The finding will help understand drug resistance in other microbes causing bacterial infections, TB

World Health Assembly to discuss reforms

Health activists push for funds with no strings attached

The ideal gap

A two-and-a-half-year gap is ideal between births for the health of the babies

Asthma at home

What's cooking tonight?

Cooking smoke can increase the risk of catching tuberculosis

Sounds bad!

Finishing touches

Ayurvedic massage can reduce body's toxin levels by 58 per cent

Dying practice

Lack of medicinal plants forces village doctors out of trade

Against the grain

A researcher reflects on progress fighting hepatitis C — and a path forward

The development of treatments over the past 30 years reflects the amazing progress the field has made in tackling hepatitis C in a relatively …

AI can dangerously misinform patients: WHO calls for policies for its safe, ethical use in healthcare

Unsafe use of AI can lead to people losing faith in the technology, thereby undermining its benefits 

Alarming increase in global use of antibiotics, India is the largest consumer

A research published in a medical journal has sounded an alarm on overuse and misuse of antibiotic drugs

Umbilical discord

As a result of air pollution in Delhi, strains of toxic metals like lead and cadmium are increasingly finding their way into the womb

Ayurveda: Hurdles of practising traditional medicine are limiting its potential

Medical pluralism can potentially help achieve universal health coverage

Clinical trials for Ebola drug begin in Liberia

The drug was originally developed for other viruses

Stem cell breakthrough gets Nobel in medicine

British scientist John B Gurdon and his Japanese counterpart Shinya Yamanaka honoured

Film review: A planet of hope

Kalahandi: A Planet of Herbs / Director: Amarendra Kishore / 28 minutes / English/Hindi

In short

Boost to pharma production: Africa inches closer to setting up own drug regulator as member states ratify treaty

Agency will ensure drug manufacturers get approval from all African Union member states without a lengthy bureaucratic process