Overweighing balance

Bariatric surgery to treat obesity is gaining ground. But the potential side-effects after the surgery are often overlooked

Eye drops could dissolve cataracts, finds study

Drops first tested on rabbits and dogs

In Brazil, patients risk everything for the 'right to beauty'

In Brazil, patients are thought of as having the “right to beauty.” In public hospitals, plastic surgeries are free or low-cost

Cataract blindness hits women more than men in India

Women are 69% more likely to develop cataract — clouding of the normally clear lens of the eye — than men

Researchers discover new biomaterial to heal detached retina

They created a biopolymer that can act as a natural vitreous substitute, a clear gelatinous substance that fills the cavity between the eye lens …

Expert team meets Johnson & Johnson victims; may skirt base amount

Company representatives present its side too

Scientists develop natural material for faster blood clotting

The biomaterial with enhanced blood clotting efficiency can treat injuries in people with impaired blood clotting capacity 

First heart surgery on foetus in India, 3-D printing saves another baby in US

Despite cutting-edge technologies being available, such surgeries are not easy to perform, say doctors

Robotic surgeries to get cheaper [video special]

A patient has to usually shell out around Rs 50,000 more for a robot-assisted surgery

Delhi High Court orders J&J to pay 67 hip implant patients Rs 25 lakh each

Activists term compensation as eyewash, say the case is still on

'If humans, robots work together productivity will be higher'

Naresh Kantoor, managing director of Gurugram-based Encon Systems International, a firm that assembles industrial robots, says these machines do …

IIT Madras develops surgical robot for medical colleges

The use of robots offers greater precision and helps surgeons minimise loss of blood by restricting incisions to smaller areas

Treated, but partly

The Indian government has heavily slashed the prices of coronary stents. Will patients with heart conditions benefit from it?

Pure patriarchy: Hymenoplasty commodifies women, breaches privacy rights

Women are expected to retain their virginity prior to marriage and continue to be subjected to the patriarchal doctrine of the Indian society

Now bone implants can be 3D printed

A US firm comes up with a technology to help prevent multiple joint replacement surgeries

Many poor patients forego operation

They don't have family attendants to care for them after surgery

Cataract top cause of blindness in India, finds survey

The condition is responsible for 66.2 per cent of blindness cases in people above 50, according to the National Blindness and Visual Impairment Survey

Norms flouted at Punjab and Himachal eye camps

Doctor who performed surgeries at Punjab camp has been arrested while officials of the NGO are still on the run

Science and the Indian politician

If India conducted its first nuclear test many centuries ago, why did we wait till 1974 AD to conduct our second test in Pokhran? Where did all …

16 people lose eyesight after cataract surgery at a camp in Punjab

Preliminary findings to be submitted by Friday evening

Road safety bill: Can it help achieve zero mortality?

Experts attending a roundtable organised by Delhi non-profit Centre for Science and Environment urge for a people-centric law rather than one …