After 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 ...

On the 100th birth anniversary of Kumar Gandharva, celebrate the musical genius who didn’t care much for tradition—who brought an effervesc...

Men, the elderly are more vulnerable to TB.

Here are five things to know about an infection that has scourged the world for tens of thousands of years.

Citing a number of studies published in leading medical journals over the last two decades, he said that by and large the inference is that...

An RCT randomly allocates volunteers to, say, two groups. One is treated with the drug in question, the other with a placebo. There are ove...

In Brazil, the shortage of penicillin coincided with a syphilis outbreak that, as a result, could not be brought under control. Between 201...

Food has always mattered in Davos which was first developed in the 19th century for sanatoriums for tuberculosis patients.

Kolkata, Dec 19 (IANS) In a unique scientific exercise centred on northeast India, researchers have kicked-off investigations into how anim...

HAL, country's first public sector undertaking in the pharmaceutical sector, has been facing severe financial crunch for quite some time no...