Category Archives: Health

These clues, called chemical signatures or biomarkers, are being studied to improve

Why does one person develop memory problems while another experiences seizures or changes in behaviour? [...]

Continuing mumps outbreak in Keralam leads to renewed demand for MMR vaccine

Outbreaks have forced the closure of schools and hostels for weeks in Alappuzha, Thrissur and [...]

October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month or Pink October, these volunteers are fanning out

Have you seen this motley group of women knitting crochet with colourful yarns at a [...]

Govt. caps trade margins on 137 anti-cancer drugs

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has undertaken trade margin rationalisation (TMR) of 137 identified [...]

Mahesh agreed to donate blood and travelled for over five hours to reach SDM Hospital

A blood donor from Chikkamagaluru travelled over 300 km to Dharwad to donate a unit [...]

Is a sugar-rich diet while on antibiotics a threat to the gut microbiome? A new study attempts

Antibiotics are among modern medicine’s greatest lifesaving discoveries. They have transformed once-dangerous bacterial infections into [...]

Early-onset Alzheimer’s disease looks very different to late-onset version: study

People who developed an early onset of Alzheimer's disease -- before turning 65 -- displayed [...]

The toolkit also enables scientists to study several proteins simultaneously

A powerful new genetic toolkit that could make it easier to study the bacteria responsible [...]

Trump administration advances plan for peptide drugs favoured by RFK Jr.

U.S. health officials are moving ahead with a plan to allow specialty pharmacies to produce [...]