China’s EV boom is cleaning the air, and may have prevented 262,000 deathsElectric vehicles are proving to be life savers. Studies show China's shift to electric cars has prevented thousands of premature deaths. A...
10 Jun, 2026, 03.20 PM IST
In 2012, archaeologists digging under a Leicester car park unearthed a skeleton with arrowhead and skull wounds and identified England's long-lost King Richard III, missing for 527 yearsIn a remarkable turn of events, excavations beneath a Leicester car park in 2012 unveiled a skeleton identified as King Richard III. A form...
07 Jun, 2026, 05.40 PM IST
Eli Lilly says next-gen obesity drug curbs sleep apnea, among other benefitsEli Lilly presented trial results for its new obesity drug retatrutide. The drug significantly reduced sleep apnea severity and knee osteoa...
07 Jun, 2026, 06.51 AM IST
Nearly 1.46 lakh AI-hallucinated references entered scientific papers in 2025: StudyA surge in AI-generated hallucinated citations has infiltrated scientific literature, with over 146,000 fabricated references appearing in ...
26 May, 2026, 05.56 PM IST
Heatwaves in India could rise 400% by century-end, putting health and jobs at risk24 May, 2026, 12.30 AM IST
Chinese medicines bring relief to India’s cancer patientsIndia’s cancer treatment landscape is seeing a shift as lower-cost immunotherapy drugs developed in China and marketed through Indian partn...
10 May, 2026, 08.50 AM IST
In 1898, Marie Curie spent years handling glowing materials by hand and changed modern physics foreverMarie Curie and her husband Pierre discovered polonium and radium in 1898. Their work changed physics, showing atoms were not stable. Radio...
07 May, 2026, 04.33 PM IST
Weight-loss drugs may also help cut alcohol intake: StudyA new study shows GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide may help reduce heavy drinking. A trial found weekly injections cut heavy drinking days by h...
30 Apr, 2026, 06.26 AM IST
Nearly 50% adults in India insufficiently physically active in 2022: Lancet StudyThe 2022 Lancet study revealed that nearly 50% of Indian adults lacked adequate physical activity, leading to a rise in non-communicable di...
26 Jun, 2024, 03.49 PM IST
Around 1 bn people globally will live with osteoarthritis by 2050, says Lancet studyA recent study published in The Lancet Rheumatology journal predicts that nearly one billion people worldwide will be living with osteoarth...
24 Aug, 2023, 05.41 PM IST
Global anaemia burden: Lancet study says the condition affected nearly 2 billion people in 2021Twice as many women than men were found to have anaemia in 2021 according to The Lancet Haematology. Anaemia affected almost two billion pe...
02 Aug, 2023, 09.48 AM IST
India could face third highest economic burden of COPD from 2020-50: Lancet StudyThe global death toll of COPD was found to have increased by 14.1 per cent between 2009 and 2019, an increase that the study attributed to ...
25 Jul, 2023, 06.02 PM IST
Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin has 77.8% efficacy rate, presents no safety concerns: Lancet studyCovaxin “induces a robust antibody response" two weeks after two doses are given, it said. “Covaxin’s Phase 3 efficacy results have been pe...
12 Nov, 2021, 08.21 AM IST
COVID-19 vaccines effective at reducing severe illness, hospitalisation: Lancet study"We are at a critical point in the pandemic as we see cases rising worldwide due to the Delta variant. Breakthrough infections are expected...
02 Sep, 2021, 12.17 PM IST
Controversial Lancet study linking HCQ, deaths in Covid-19 treatment retractedThe authors of the research linking the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and increased death risk during Covid-19 treatment have retracted t...
05 Jun, 2020, 09.41 AM IST
An almost retracted study on hydroxychloroquine exposes perils of hasty trialsWHO last week stopped one arm of the Covid-19 Solidarity trial of HCQ, only to resume it again this week. Its decision to stop the trial wa...
04 Jun, 2020, 07.09 PM IST
It's official: Lancet study says social distancing most-effective way to stop coronavirus from spreadingComprising quarantine, school closure, and workplace measures are most effective at reducing the number of cases.
25 Mar, 2020, 05.16 PM IST