Health News

Bihar govt to get more help from Gates Foundation to improve healthcare

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates meets Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar during a three-day visit.

Dec 5, 2015

Pot smokers beware! Marijuana can lead to serious mental disorder

The person using the drug can lose contact with external reality, the study warns.

Dec 4, 2015

600 million fall ill from food contamination every year: WHO

The report also looked at the way food is traded and sold.

Dec 3, 2015

India restores govt funding for AIDS programme after criticism

The central government had slashed its contribution and asked individual states to fill the gap.

Dec 2, 2015

Ethicists squabble over mores of gene editing tools and techniques

Several groups have already called for restrictions on use of the technology known as CRISPR-Cas9.

Dec 2, 2015

New blood sugar tests can better detect pre-diabetes

Two blood sugar tests rather than a single test would improve detection of pre-diabetes.

Dec 1, 2015

Demand for IVF option set to rise in China as one-child policy is relaxed

Chinese rules have pushed patients to go overseas or seek treatment in unregulated clinics.

Dec 1, 2015

In a first, retinal nerve cells are grown in laboratory

Human stem cells were turned into retinal nerve cells that transmit visual signals.

Dec 1, 2015

Deaths of teenagers from AIDS nearly quadruples in South Asia

Adolescent deaths from AIDS tripled over the last 15 years; 26 new infections every hour.

Dec 1, 2015

Roche drops project on antibiotic for treating 'superbugs'

Roche had agreed in 2013 to pay privately held partner Polyphor up to 500 million Swiss Francs for rights to the product.

Nov 30, 2015

'Made in China' drugs may provide tough competition to MNCs

China is focusing its industrial might to the challenge of making more of its own drugs for a vast and aging population.

Nov 30, 2015

AIDS related adolescent deaths tripled over the last 15 years: UNICEF

AIDS is the number one cause of death among adolescents in Africa.

Nov 28, 2015

Elementary school children with ADHD not getting medication, therapy: Study

Impact on the family and the child's age are the biggest determinants of whether parents tap into available services.

Nov 27, 2015

Interactive web system plus smartphone can help control BP: Study

Scientists developed an interactive web system, that along with the smartphone helped the participants in controling their blood pressure.

Nov 27, 2015

Japan: HIV-inhibiting protein in humans identified

The virus in the cells with the protein, known as MARCH8, did not affect the healthy cells.

Nov 26, 2015