Science & Health

IBM launches app to help people sleep better

SleepHealth gathers information from the users to study the link between their health and sleep habits.

Mar 3, 2016

We were unaware of the scale of Art of Living's festival: DDA tells NGT

The National Green Tribunal pulled up the DDA for letting the huge festival, in which about 35 lakh people are likely to participate, take place on the banks of the Yamuna river.

Mar 3, 2016

USFDA issues guidelines to cut Zika transmissions due to surgeries

The US Food and Drug Administration has said the Zika virus can be transmitted via donation of umbilical cord blood, placenta and growth tissues.

Mar 3, 2016

India hosts International Conference of Infectious Diseases for the first time; Zika on agenda

Experts from 160 countries have gathered in Hyderabad to participate in the four-day conference and will discuss the challenges infectious diseases pose to healthcare

Mar 3, 2016

Zydus Cadila gets USFDA nod for anti-diabetic drugs

The tablets, to be produced at the company's manufacturing site in Baddi, Himachal Pradesh, will be sold in the U.S. market.

Mar 2, 2016

Aurobindo Pharma receives USFDA approval for painkiller injection

The approved acetylcysteine injection has an estimated market size of US$28 million.

Mar 2, 2016

Centre issues advisory to states over Swine flu outbreak

The Swine flu outbreak in Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana has claimed 62 lives so far this year.

Mar 2, 2016

Watch Scott Kelly land back on Earth after 340 days in space

A Soyuz capsule carrying Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov landed in Kazakhstan on 2 March. The landing took place in a steppe near the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan at 10.26am local time.

Mar 2, 2016

Ban on sale of loose cigarettes likely as govt proposes changes in anti-smoking law

Union Health Minister J P Nadda said the anti-smoking law will be made stricter to discourage tobacco use in the country

Mar 2, 2016

AstraZeneca divestment drive continues, strikes deal with ProStrakan

AstraZeneca has sold the European rights of constipation drug Moventig to ProStrakan.

Mar 2, 2016

Astronauts Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko return to Earth after a year in space

The two astronauts were selected for a study on the human body after an extended stay in space.

Mar 2, 2016

NHRC issues notice to Centre over duty imposition on life-saving drugs

The NHRC asked the government to explain its move of removal of custom duty exemption and imposition of excise duty on key drugs.

Mar 2, 2016

China starts public cleaning campaign to combat Zika virus

As the total number of Zika virus cases in China reached nine, the authorities kickstarted an extensive cleaning campaign in public areas.

Mar 2, 2016

Meteor ‘flash’ lights up skies above Scotland

Scottish residents reported seeing a bright flash of light streaking across the night sky on 29 February. The phenomenon was captured on CCTV and dashcam, and images and video clips began circulating on social media. Many Scottish residents took to Twitter to report the sighting and speculate on what they had witnessed.

Mar 1, 2016

ISS: Scott Kelly hands over command of space station

Calling it bittersweet, Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly handed over command of the International Space Station to Tim Kopra on 29 February, as he prepared to return home after enduring the longest US spaceflight.

Mar 1, 2016