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Male doctors tend to have more help at home for childcare or elder care. (Photo: Pixabay)

Female doctors adjust lives to accommodate home

Female physicians are more likely to make professional adjustments to accommodate their responsibilities at home, according to a new study.

23 Nov 2017 10:04 AM

Amazing health benefits of Peepal

Here is how you can use it.

08 Nov 2017 2:48 PM

Apart from higher chances of misdiagnosis, you are also vulnerable to psychological syndromes. (Photo: Pixabay)

Here's how self-diagnosis using internet is harmful

Since there is a higher risk of misdiagnosis, the patient may bear the unpleasant side-effects.

26 Oct 2017 6:02 PM

Mutated APC genes cause excess activity of a cell signalling pathway called 'Wnt', which has been associated with bowel cancer for over 20 years. (Photo: Pixabay)

New drug to treat bowel cancer discovered by Brit researchers

Most bowel cancers are caused by a mutation in a gene called APC that in its healthy form actually acts to prevent cancer formation.

19 Oct 2017 8:50 AM

Female surgeons better at not killing you compared to male surgeons: Study

The research found that female surgeons were considered as being more skilled, better at following rules and communicating.

11 Oct 2017 5:36 PM

The Academy is known for its cloak-and-dagger methods to prevent any leaks, resorting to codenames for authors and fake book covers when reading in public. (Photo: AP)

Winner of Nobel Prize for literature to be revealed on Thursday

Last year’s winner, Bob Dylan, was the first singer songwriter to win the prestigious award, dividing the literary world.

02 Oct 2017 4:37 PM

Anna Wedell, chairman of the Nobel committee, center, and members of the committee Juleen Zierath, left, and Carlos Ibanez, announce the winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Medicine during a press conference at the Nobel Forum in Stockholm, Monday Oct. 2, 2017. The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to three Americans for discoveries about the body's daily rhythms. The laureates are Jeffrey c. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young. (Photo: AP)

Nobel for medicine give tin 3 Americans for body rhythm work

The laureates are Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young.

02 Oct 2017 4:15 PM

Sigmund Freud and the Nobel Prize trauma

Freud's name was put forward 12 times for a Medicine Prize and once for a Literature Prize but he never won.

30 Sep 2017 2:48 PM

Dabur is testing a subscription-based model for its ayurvedic medicines in the country. (Representational Image)

Dabur testing subscription-based medicine model in India

In a subscription-based model, consumers receives products from a company at a regular interval.

26 Sep 2017 4:20 PM

‘L-G office didn’t allow me food, medicines’

Refuting the charge, an official at the LG office said Sarita Singh did not inform the Raj Niwas staff that she needed medicine or food.

01 Sep 2017 4:30 AM

Dr Paul Ridker, lead researcher said that his Harvard University team’s findings would mean a new era of treatment.

Scientists discover drug that can slash cancer, heart attack risk by half

Wonder drug is being hailed as biggest breakthrough since statins.

28 Aug 2017 1:42 PM

All breast cancers are tested to determine if they require oestrogen to grow and about 80 per cent are found to be oestrogen-sensitive. These cancers can often be effectively treated with hormone therapy, such as tamoxifen, but as many as a third of these cancers eventually become resistant.

New drug that can prevent breast cancer growth identified

The potential drug offers hope for patients whose breast cancer has become resistant to traditional therapies.

09 Aug 2017 8:16 PM

Uncertainty among doctors about how much medicine patients really need after common operations contributes to the problem (Photo: Pixabay)

Surgery patients being left with extra opioids may be harmful, says study

The research raises concerns about over-prescribing addictive medicine that could end in the wrong hands.

04 Aug 2017 8:58 AM

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Already existing medicines may treat infectious diseases, says study

Here's what researchers found.

08 Jul 2017 11:13 AM

New drug extracted from chili can keep[ knee pain at bay for six months (Photo: Pixabay)

Chili painkiller to keep knee ache at bay

Drug created can keep problem at bay for six months

15 Jun 2017 5:32 PM

The move to reduce prices of 15 medicines is the latest in a series of price cuts that began late 2016 and has led to reduced costs of around 1,450 drugs. (Representational image)

Prices of 15 drugs set to be slashed

The NPPA had recently announced major price cuts for cancer drugs, up to 86 per cent in some cases.

10 Mar 2017 12:55 AM

Oncologist Paralkar and radiologist Morparia are published writers.

Doctors without borders

Chat went beyond the confines of the ER and into the literary passages of Dostoevsky and the likes.

09 Feb 2017 1:44 AM

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