Death logs

Workers in the wood industry face higher risk of cancer

Smoking unabated

Women in the US continue to puff one too many

DNA to test carcinogens

Chips made of DNA strands can detect carcinogenic chemicals

Checking leukaemia

Stockpiling safeguards

Tragic potion

Herbal drug stuck in IPR jam, tribal group biggest loser

Export controversy

Sri Lanka struggles to protect rare anti-diabetes herb

African Union imposes historic ban on cruel donkey skin trade

Donkeys are critical to millions of people and are important for poverty eradication; Brazil to follow suit

In almost 4 decades, 400 US veternarians killed themselves, says study

It also reveals that veternarians are up to 3.5 times more likely to die by suicide than the general population with different occupations

Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman’s work on mRNA vaccines wins Nobel Prize for Medicine 2023

Such vaccines have saved millions of lives and prevented severe disease in many more, allowing societies to open and return to normal conditions

Wastewater is a valuable source of information — Africa’s scientists need to use it to find drug-resistant bacteria

Once sewer networks are in place, standardised protocols for assessing antimicrobial resistance in wastewater treatment plants must be established

Seven new cases of Kala-azar reported in one week in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur

Eighteen cases have now been reported in the district this year, casting serious doubt on the government’s plan to eradicate it next year

Gender bias in medicine and medical research is still putting women’s health at risk

Women’s health has too often been considered a niche area — even though it involves roughly 50% of the world’s population

Displaced from the hills: Livelihoods of tribal communities in Eastern Ghats under threat

Importance of biodiversity for communities dependant on agriculture has assumed greater significance with new farm laws, which may result in …

Bitter bounty: Why karela leaves can be a good harvest off your kitchen garden

Bitter gourd leaves not only have medicinal and nutritive properties, they can be added to tasty recipes as well 

Drones deliver medicines in Africa

A US-based company transports life-saving drugs, 148 vaccines and blood units to 2,000 health facilities across Ghana

Mountains of Sanjeevani

The Uttarakhand government's initiative to spend Rs 25 crore on an elusive mythical herb should trigger a wider quest to identify, document and …

Is pregnancy a disease?

The development of birth-control methods that use the body's immune system may be more convenient than condoms and pills. But several groups …

Anti-AIDS treatment aims at tolerating virus

Ayurveda practitioners in Kerala are experimenting with a novel approach to tackling AIDS: herbal medicines that increase the patient's immunity …

Checking population growth through the ages

The concept of family planning control dates back to the ancient Greeks. Though many scientific advances have been made in the field since then, …

Dirty games with the mind

A new study on the connection between marijuana abuse and human cognition throws more light on the long-term effects of drug addiction

No youth-pills

Human growth hormone, the drug hyped for being able to reverse the process of aging is exposed for its inefficiency

Fear no starch

By the turn of the century, you can dig your teeth into anything starchy and yet maintain good dental health -courtesy, genetically engineered plants

Success is a mindgame

A memory drug developed by Indian scientists could hold the key to a ultimillion dollar global market

On the comeback trail

The scientific community is trying hard to combat communicable diseases which have made a comeback