Health

Why Antibiotics Are Precious

You need only go back 70 years to a time when a scratch and a common infection could prove deadly. Routine surgery and childbirth could be a hazardous business. Penicillin had...

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India To Host ‘Call To Action Summit 2015 – Ending Preventable Child And Maternal Deaths’

The Summit will be a platform for 24 nations and the Summit partners to deliberate upon the importance of systems, partnerships, innovations, convergence, and evidence in endi...

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The First Real Smart Drug? Researchers Say Modafinil Works

A study published this week, however, makes bold claims on the properties of one of the most well-known smart drugs: modafinil. Modafinil is a medication prescribed for sleep ...

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Meet The GynePunks Pushing The Boundaries Of DIY Gynecology

A collective of radical bio-hackers and TransHackFeminists are out to reclaim gynecological medicine for those women, and for themselves. Under the name GynePunks, they’...

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Palakkad First HIV/Aids Literate Dist in Country

PALAKKAD: Palakkad will be declared the first total HIV/ Aids literate district in the country on Monday. T N Kandamuthan, district panchayat president, said that in the last ...

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MRI Scans Can Deliver Cancer Therapy

A hospital scan normally used to detect cancer could be used to steer tumour killing treatments to hard-to-reach targets in the body, say scientists. The UK team at Sheffield ...

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5 Brain Technologies That Will Shape Our Future

The race to decipher the workings of the human brain, and build new economies around it, is on. Today’s great entrepreneurs – people such as Paul Allen, Jeffrey Ha...

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A Startup Is Pushing the Boundaries of Biology with Synthetic DNA

Dr. Floyd Romesberg, one of the company’s co-founders, made news last year when he and a team of scientists successfully incorporated two synthetic nucleotide bases into...

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Google Won the Internet. Now It Wants to Cure Diseases

WHEN GOOGLE CO-FOUNDER Larry Page dropped his now-famous blog post revealing that Google was reorganizing itself as Alphabet, one of the most striking things was what he chose...

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Pregnant Women World-Wide Need Timely Access to Supplements

Over 32 million pregnant women around the world have anemia every year, a condition that limits the blood’s capacity to transport oxygen to the body’s cells. This ...

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IAA LEADERSHIP AWARDS HONOUR ICONS

IAA Leadership Awards 2026 brought together India’s leading business, advertising,...

August 12 2026

JJ SCHOOL’S FREEDOM ART REVEALED

Prof. Dr. Avinash Kolhe explores how JJ School of Art students captured India’s fr...

August 11 2026

OHH MY DOG: LOVE, LOYALTY, LOSS

Canine Loyalty Meets A Darker Tale of Loss, Courage and Justice. Arnab Banerjee reviews ...

August 10 2026