Lassa fever: Why there’s a call to declare a health emergency in Nigeria

The Nigerian Academy of Science has called for the current outbreak of Lassa fever in Africa’s most populous nation to be declared a …

Ayurveda offers remedy for failing memory

After yielding successful formulations like Liv. 52 and Guglip, Ayurveda now holds out promise of a new range of drugs to treat mental disorders.

Righting the target

Clearer understanding of an enzyme's role could lead to pain killers with less acute side-effects

Taking a short cut

A new method of drug development which expedites the lengthy process of scanning thousands of possible combinations, could lower drug prices …

Protected by pregnancy

A protein produced by pregnant women is found useful in preventing the development of skin tumours

The red tape vs Kanis

The forest department reserves the right to conserve arogyapacha, and prevents Kanis from selling it outside

The miracle-makers

Scientists are only now finding out the Kanis' knowledge of herbal remedies. The most outstanding find so far is arogyapacha

Super aspirin makes a debut

For those suffering with heart diseases, scientists just found drugs that are more effective than aspirin

Gut microbes can cause severe malnutrition

Study on Malawian children suffering from kwashiorkor establishes the link

Common heart medication less effective in south Asian people – new research

Clopidogrel may not be effective for many British south Asians

WHO strongly recommends COVID-19 pill Paxlovid for high-risk populations

Paxlovid may prevent more hospitalisations than its alternatives

Henrietta Lacks, whose cells led to path-breaking medical advances, receives posthumous WHO award

The scientific community hid her race and story for years   

Not so much of a devil

Reducing anaemia

Bad company

One defective eye can spoil the other. Early detection and treatment helps

Burgers? Burp!

Getting obese? Blame it on burgers, pizzas and french fries

Hard work pays

Hard manual labour may actually reduce the risk of breast cancer in women

Fatal attraction

Why pregnant women attract mosquitoes

Injecting a cure

The card up the sleeve

Roman tragedy

A mosquito brought down an empire that worlds' militaries couldn't

Airways and bloodways

A heart condition

People with breathing problems are more vulnerable to heart diseases caused by air pollution

Foetal memory

Learning starts in the womb

Herbal cures to fight kala azar