Almost half of doctors in US from lower-income countries

India has spent around $1,850 million on 53,000 medical graduates practicing in the US

GlaxoSmithKline fined for unethical drug trials on infants in Argentina

Pharmaceutical giant to file appeal in apex court

Vitamin C could be panacea for drug-resistant TB

Vitamin triggers reaction which eventually kills off bacteria; could help shorten drug therapy

Breakthrough in search for new malaria cure

Scientists find a way to block malaria parasite from making itself at home inside host blood cells; research opens up possibilities of new …

In Brief

Three find their way to Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine

Their work explains the "GPS" in our brains

Guidelines released to help elderly take insulin injections the correct way

Updated guidelines say physicians should not use age as an excuse to avoid use of insulin which can delay treatment, result in complications

Delhi gangrape: is there a way to scientifically ascertain age of the sixth accused?

A look at the available technology shows no method is foolproof

Anti-malarial drug resistant parasites knock on India’s doors

Countries will have to consider the possibility of revising treatment strategy to counter drug resistance, says study

Moneymakers

Breathing uneasy

Threat from occupational exposure to pollutants, especially to young children and pregnant women, is growing rapidly. There is no time for …

Science for people

Scientists attending the 101st Science Congress discuss solutions to lift farmers, livestock owners out of poverty

India’s first centre for chronic conditions launched

The centre will conduct research into chronic diseases to find solutions and prevent their spread

In Short

Research on avian influenza virus to resume

Scientists had suspended research a year ago following public safety concerns over laboratory-modified H5N1 viruses

Highs and lows

The government's vanaspati van scheme is good news, but for it to succeed small-scale farmers and local communities have to be brought in its fold

Grow more

There is no land to cultivate medicinal plants, neither are there any legal provisions, nor market access. At present, the risks involved are …

Predicting the future

A severe shortage of medicinal plants and herbs threatens ISM. Cultivation may be the only way out. But currently medicinal plants that are …

A Himalayan Tragedy

People who have no idea about forests step in to further trade, while the indigenous herb gatherers get exploited further

Herbal heist

Hand-in-glove with the forest department, traders of medicinal plants and herbs make hay while communities who depend on herb gathering for …

SC awards Rs 5.96 crore compensation in medical negligence case

Wife of NRI doctor Kunal Saha, Anuradha, had died of complications after treatment at Kolkata's AMRI hospital in 1998

THE MONEY MAKERS

Super Market

Secretive. Exploitative. Is the market in Minor Forest Produce unmanageable? sopan joshi finds out

Most infant deaths in India occur on first day of birth

The country accounts for 29 per cent of the global deaths of newborns on their first day of birth

Cyclones, locust attacks: Climate disasters, COVID-19 pose dual challenge in South Asia

From flash floods in Pakistan to cyclone in Bay of Bengal, climate-related disasters have compounded COVID-19 crisis in South Asia