Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition

Discovery of special stem cells in fruit flies to help study diseases

Discovery of special stem cells in fruit flies to help study diseases R. Prasad IISER team says model will come in handy as it shares similarities with humans.

antimicrobial resistance week Health

Owning up to the onus

Ramya Kannan Pharmaceutical majors, including top names in India, commit to a new road map to combat antimicrobial resistance. Putting proper effluent treatment protocols in place would be a good start

Health

A silken touch to healing

A silk protein-derived product developed by a Bengaluru-based company promises to be a cleaner alternative to the traditional dressing for wounds

Fitness

Follow Section
See All

Fitness

Just what your trainer ordered

Susanna Myrtle Lazarus Healthy meal delivery services now have trainers and nutritionists on board to give clients the best of pre and post-workout food, writes SUSANNA MYRTLE LAZARUS

Fitness

The running sisterhood

Bhumika K. Limitless, a film that talks of the attitude towards women who run, hopes to encourage more women to take up this healthy sport, breaking the many barriers they face, says BHUMIKA K.

Multimedia

See All

Malady Nation: Remedying India's public healthcare

Other Articles

See All

Health Making medical education a public good

Good Health Hunting Health Good Health Hunting The four pillars of well-being

No fullstops Health No fullstops ‘Down’s Syndrome is not going to stop my son from leading a wonderful life’

TUBERCULOSIS FIGHT Health TUBERCULOSIS FIGHT Global fears over India’s ticking TB time bomb

Do air purifiers keep out pollution? In the absence of any government-set standards for indoor air quality, their efficacy rests more on anecdotal evidence than scientific assessment

Right to clean air As I write this column, my gaze is on the post-Deepavali haze that has enveloped Delhi. As a third-generation asthmatic, with a fourth-generation a

Malady nation A series on India's multi-dimensional healthcare crisis.

Around the world - November 20, 2016 A round up of this week's news in the science and health sector

Demystifying Science: What is Frankenfixation? Frankenfixation refers to the use of genetic modification to fix carbon dioxide into the soil. It derives from term popularised by critics of genetica

For your eyes only Dr. Satish helps relax and rejuvenate the eye muscles at The School for Perfect Vision

Time to act against early-onset diabetes Catching diabetes in its early stages could mean lesser complications later

Centre prohibits Draize test on rabbits In a major victory for animal rights campaigners, the Union Health Ministry has prohibited use of the cruel and obsolete “Draize” irritation tests th

Ebola may have mutated to better infect humans: study The Ebola virus may have adapted to better infect human cells, say scientists who identified mutations in the deadly virus that developed during the

Blood test to detect drug-resistant TB Mumbai-based researchers have identified two microRNA biomarkers present in serum samples that could potentially be used for TB diagnosis and TB disea

Global fears over India’s ticking TB time bomb The international public health community wants India to act urgently to tackle TB resistance, currently spreading at an alarming rate in the country