Health & Medicine
Shared brain disruption illustrates similarities between mental illnesses
By By Bill Hathaway | 05 Jul 2013
Bone marrow transplant busts HIV in two patients
04 Jul 2013
Doctors caution that it is too early to talk about a cure as the virus could return at any point
Nanoparticles, made to order — inside and out
04 Jul 2013
New research enables high-speed customization of novel nanoparticles for drug delivery and other uses. - Anne Trafton, MIT News Office
Prescription pain pills turn poison pills for stressed American women
04 Jul 2013
Deaths from painkillers in recent years have been increasing much faster among women, quintupling since 1999
Growth, not just size, boosts brain aneurysms' risk of bursting
By By Elaine Schmidt | 03 Jul 2013
Vaginal delivery raises risk of pelvic organ prolapse
By By Karen N. Peart | 03 Jul 2013
Brain-penetrating particle attacks deadly tumours
By By Eric Gershon | 02 Jul 2013
Hold the medicinal lettuce
29 Jun 2013
USC research IDs potential treatment for HIV-related lymphoma
By By Alison Trinidad | 29 Jun 2013
How cancer spreads: Metastatic tumor a hybrid of cancer cell and white blood cell
By By Helen Dodson | 27 Jun 2013
Sleep apnea and pre-eclampsia share a common warning sign
By By Bill Hathaway | 27 Jun 2013
Cartilage gene linked to bone cancers
27 Jun 2013
New way to improve antibiotic production
26 Jun 2013
New alternative to surgery lets doctors remove suspicious polyps, keep colon intact
By By Rachel Champeau | 26 Jun 2013
Managing ‘internal clocks’ of post-harvest vegetables for health
24 Jun 2013
Vegetables and fruits don’t die the moment they are harvested; they respond to their environment for days, light can be used to coax them to make more cancer-fighting antioxidants at certain times of day
Targeted drug delivery could be transformed by microbubble technology
By By Michael Jones | 24 Jun 2013
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation