Vaping ban in India: Tobacco farmers and merchants oppose
Tobacco merchants request the government to reconsider its move to ban Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS) products, commonly known as e-cigarettes or vaping. The …
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Transplanted brain stem cells survive without anti-rejection drugs in mice
In experiments in mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have developed a way to successfully transplant certain protective brain cells without the need …
Ageing hormone can be reversed by more than two years
Using a combination of growth hormone and two common drugs used for diabetes medications, a scientist reduced epigenetic clock by an average of two-and-a-half …
Malaria Cases – India is fourth in the World : Lancet report
India ranked fourth in the number of malaria cases in the world according to the latest Lancet Commission report released on the evening of September 8, …
Digital disruption will make evidence-based healthcare a norm
Are we making a world in which all humans can live together, or are we sinking into the abyss of an unequal future and …
India-UK project to find affordable solutions to cancer
In India, one million new cases of cancer are reported every year. Nearly 60 per cent of the cases reach hospitals in late stages …
Indian Pharmaceutical firms receive 34% of FDA warnings this year
Indian pharmaceutical companies received a third of the warnings the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued for misbranding, selling unapproved medicines and …
FDA approves new drug regimen for TB
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved new oral three-drug regimen for the extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), estimated to have a mortality rate …
1st successful neurosurgery at RST Cancer Hospital
The newly established department of Neurosurgery at Rashtra Sant Tukadoji Regional Cancer Center (RST RCC) has performed its first surgery for spinal cord tumour successfully on …
Hormone injection helps weight loss in obese patients
A hormone injection can help obese patients lose weight, suggests a study. The study was published in the journal ‘Diabetes Care’. Researchers wanted to see if infusing …
