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Researchers recommend that potential users become educated about the drugs they are going to use and their side effects. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

'Easy availability of drugs,' blames Amritsar woman, chains...

According to the 50-year-old mother, her daughter got addicted to drugs when she went for a job in a beauty parlour in...

29 Aug 2019 11:07 AM IST

Screengrabs of Karan Johars house party video. (Photos: Instagram)

Crazy allegation: Bollywood on a high!

An Akali Dal politico has accused Bollywood celebs of being high on drugs at filmmaker Karan Johar's latest bash.

1 Aug 2019 6:23 AM IST

The emotional and sexual abuse that some children endure can lead them to commit crimes later in life. (Photo: Pixabay )

Educational success curbs effects of child abuse: study

Successful school experiences kept teens from both committing crimes and having antisocial behaviours.

16 March 2018 1:25 PM IST

The risk of death from cardiovascular disease was 34 percent higher with febuxostat than with an older drug, allopurinol. (Photo: Pixabay)

Newer gout drug poses risk to heart patients

People with gout already face an elevated risk of cardiovascular and chronic kidney disease.

13 March 2018 9:45 AM IST

Its true that maybe in 50% of the population, a stroke grows very quickly. (Photo: Pixabay)

Anti-clot drug could cut stroke risk too

Those who do survive are often left with debilitating disabilities including paralysis and an inability to speak.

17 May 2018 2:10 PM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Patients, health care workers call for affordable insulin

Rally organizers say the average cost of insulin in the United States has tripled in the last 10 years.

13 May 2018 9:23 AM IST

$Osteoporosis is a progressive condition in which bones become structurally weak and are more likely to fracture or break. (Photo:Pixabay)$ Life

Osteoporosis drug may protect your heart too

Alendronate is potentially cardioprotective in hip fracture patients.

12 May 2018 7:36 PM IST

The only alternate to drugs is a hair transplant which several celebrities have opted for (Photo: Pixabay)

Baldness may be cured by drug designed for brittle bone disease

Currently there are only two drugs that can cure baldness and both have side effects while only producing disappointing...

9 May 2018 12:16 PM IST

HIV excels at evading the immune system by hiding out in certain immune cells. (Photo: Pixabay)

Is a cure for HIV inching closer? Scientists discover new possibility

Team creates neutralising antibody, effective not only against all genetically divergent global HIV-1 strains, but also...

8 May 2018 1:28 PM IST

Human tissues exposed to either drug for one week in a dish had reduced numbers of cells that give rise to sperm and eggs (Photo: AFP)

Antiepileptic drugs could lead to birth defects

Some of the most common birth defects are caused by a neural tube that fails to close completely.

2 May 2018 8:36 PM IST

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Exposure to epilepsy drug in womb can hamper kid's grades

Here is what a new study has found.

30 March 2018 5:26 PM IST

The latest WHO figures show that malaria infected about 216 million people in 2016. (Photo: Pixabay)

Discovery of malaria parasite survival genes offers new targets

Latest World Health Organization (WHO) data show that 216 million people were infected last year with the malaria...

7 May 2018 8:21 AM IST