Health & Medicine
DNA safeguard may be key in cancer treatment
17 Mar 2015
Clinical outcomes with new CT scans no better than with functional testing for heart patients: study
16 Mar 2015
Can green tea slow cancer in smokers?
16 Mar 2015
Bionic heart that doesn’t beat could dustbin human transplants
13 Mar 2015
Unlike a normal heart that must beat 60-100 times a minute to keep the blood flowing, the artificial heart has only one moving part, but is equally efficient, finds global research team
Researchers devise new method to identify disease markers, a key step toward personalised medicine
13 Mar 2015
‘Ouch zone’ in the brain identified
11 Mar 2015
Early onset of hot flashes associated with blood vessel dysfunction, could predict heart disease
11 Mar 2015
New medical detector
10 Mar 2015
First Indian vaccine against Rotavirus launched
10 Mar 2015
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched the first indigenously developed and manufactured rotavirus vaccine, 'Rotavac,' making available low-cost vaccine to combat infant mortality caused by diarrhoea
How different types of cannabis affect the brain
07 Mar 2015
Scientists uncover new role for neurotransmitter that helps fight infection
05 Mar 2015
Scientists have shed new light on the complexities of the immune system that could help develop vaccines to boost natural defences against disease
Computer algorithm picks out the drugs that work
04 Mar 2015
Computer algorithms can tell apart the drugs that provide effective pain relief from ineffective placebos, a research team from Oxford University has found
Fighting a worm with its own genome
03 Mar 2015
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
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COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
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
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