Can Kerala’s policy to limit antibiotics misuse lead to reduced AMR?
With the successful launch of Operation Amrith (Antimicrobial Resistance Intervention for Total Heal...
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Commercialising health services can be a recipe for disaster, says Sujatha Rao
A few days ago, Sujatha Rao, former Union Secretary of the Health Ministry, quit the Lancet Citizens...
IACS scientists discover a new target for cancer treatment
Using human breast cancer cells, a team of scientists at the Kolkata-based Indian Association for th...
Eight years on, NIV Pune still relies on U.S. CDC for Zika test kits
In early July this year, to cut down the turnaround time for Zika virus testing when samples were se...
Kerala breaks the shackle of centralised testing, sequencing
When highly pathogenic virus outbreaks such as Nipah take place, contact tracing and isolation of cl...
12 papers involving a scientist from CSIR’s Indian Institute of Toxicology Research retracted
Twelve papers co-authored by Ashok Pandey, a scientist at CSIR’s Indian Institute of Toxicology Rese...
inStem’s fabric offers protection from pesticides
Researchers at the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), in Bengaluru ...
Rotavirus vaccine: tortured data analyses raise false safety alarm
Slamming the recently published paper by Dr. Jacob Puliyel from the International Institute of Healt...
H5N1 remains infectious on milking equipment for over one hour
Even as the Atlanta-based CDC has cautioned people to avoid drinking raw milk, especially in the Sta...
Will cattle be the next evolutionary lab for flu host-switching?
Cattle have so far not been associated with being infected in large-scale, and as a result, cattle h...
Tamil Nadu uses inexpensive method to treat rodenticide poisoning
Deaths caused by ingestion of rat poison containing yellow phosphorus is a major problem in a few St...
