Antioxidants can accelerate tumour growth, suggests study

The chemicals inactivate a protein that works as tumour suppressor and prevents cancer

A complete American diet

Lethal and toxic chemicals found in US citizens

MDR-TB cases in India increase more than five-fold in two years

Minister says better surveillance and detection is the reason

India to get medical devices parks

Recommendations by a government panel include increased production of indigenous devices and a cap on their prices

This sugar substitute increases blood sugar levels

Study finds sucralose increases glycemic and insulin responses in obese people

Thirsty for breath?

Contaminated drinking water can lead to respiratory problems

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Push to create cadre of family doctors for rural India

Government's National Health Systems Resource Centre is finalising recommendations which are likely to seek inclusion of family medicine in MBBS …

Shortage of specialist doctors: DNB course can be a way forward

Training in Diplomate National Board course has helped deal with shortage of specialists in rural areas and skewed population-…

Ignoring WHO, ICMR to go ahead with HCQ for COVID workers

Indian studies yet to be completed; Indian Council of Medical Research says drug is safe

Mutations that make malaria drugs ineffective discovered

Gene kelch13 associated with malaria resistance

India has maximum infant deaths in the world

Lancet study says 5.5 million infant deaths in the world go unrecorded

Three win Nobel Prize for medicine

James E Rothman, Randy W Schekman, Thomas C. Südhof to be awarded for discovering transport mechanism of cells

Ayurvedic drug manufacturers divided over new eu directives

Tough trial

Can Indian traditional medicines transfer their ancient efficacy to the modern era?

Centre confirms three pentavalent vaccine deaths

Union health ministry says 17 other deaths of infants reported in Haryana, Kerala and Tamil Nadu were not linked to five-in-one vaccine

Rapid privatisation has worsened health care services in poor and middle-income nations: study

But public sector, too. needs quality improvement, say researchers from University of California

Government bans blood test for TB

Move comes a year after WHO said the test leads to misdiagnosis

The wisdom of indigenous healers

Medicinal Plants of India - Vols I & II S K Jain and Robert A DeFillips Publisher: Reference Publications Price: US $94.95

Barriers under pestle

There is an urgent need to rationalise traditional medicinal systems to stop unscrupulous use

Healthy kya?

Why are companies across all product categories 'nutracising' their brands? Obviously, to catch a huge market -- growing by the day -- for health …

Researchers find more reasons to quit smoking

Death due to renal failure and intestinal ischemia associated with smoking

Disappearing tree

An evergreen tree found only in Africa is on the verge of extinction because of large-scale stripping of its bark

EU to stop import of herbal products

By May 2003, the European Council was supposed to have reached a consensus on a directive that seeks to regulate the supply of herbal products in …

The inside story

Bad health is good business. The pharmaceutical industry knows that. But now bad health is turning out to be good business for the food industry …