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The penicillin war: India's journey from self-sufficiency to dependence on ChinaAfter India lost its dominance in making penicillin, a drought of three decades is coming to an end. The drug – which forms the base for a ...
Kumar Gandharva, the lord of the ragasOn the 100th birth anniversary of Kumar Gandharva, celebrate the musical genius who didn’t care much for tradition—who brought an effervesc...
World TB Day: Once regarded as a death sentence, tuberculosis is mostly curable today; six red flags to watch out forMen, the elderly are more vulnerable to TB.
Five facts about tuberculosis, a 40,000-year-old infection that continues to plague thousands across the globeHere are five things to know about an infection that has scourged the world for tens of thousands of years.
Natural immunity boosters more effective than pharmacological ones, says Jitendra SinghCiting a number of studies published in leading medical journals over the last two decades, he said that by and large the inference is that...
View: How randomised control trials have indeed been an effective tool for development economicsAn RCT randomly allocates volunteers to, say, two groups. One is treated with the drug in question, the other with a placebo. There are ove...
Shortage of important form of penicillin affecting 39 countries, including India: AMFIn Brazil, the shortage of penicillin coincided with a syphilis outbreak that, as a result, could not be brought under control. Between 201...
Food for thought apart, ample chaat & samosas on Davos thaliFood has always mattered in Davos which was first developed in the 19th century for sanatoriums for tuberculosis patients.
- Plants, animals in northeast use chemicals to communicate
Kolkata, Dec 19 (IANS) In a unique scientific exercise centred on northeast India, researchers have kicked-off investigations into how anim...
Proposal to revive Hindustan Antibiotics being considered:GovernmentHAL, country's first public sector undertaking in the pharmaceutical sector, has been facing severe financial crunch for quite some time no...