Global Drug Spending To Hit $1.4 Trillion In 2020: IMS

Global spending on medicines will reach $1.4 trillion in 2020, driven by increased healthcare access in emerging markets and high-priced new drugs for cancer and other dise...

Pigeons Could Help Detect Breast Cancer

The latest species to add to that list is the common pigeon (Columba livia). According to a study?by a team of researchers in the US published in?PLOS One, pigeons have an ...

How Does The Gender Gap Affect Cardiologists?

Despite efforts to increase gender diversity in cardiology, major differences in job characteristics and pay persist between men and women who treat heart patients, accordi...

CRISPR Technique Could ‘Turn Off’ Muscular Dystrophy Gene, Study Says

A recent paper published in the journal Molecular Therapy found that, at least for one disease, that may be possible very soon. According to lead resear...

CRISPR Technique Could ‘Turn Off’ Muscular Dystrophy Gene, Study Says

A recent paper published in the journal Molecular Therapy found that, at least for one disease, that may be possible very soon. According to lead resear...

Curtain Raiser

“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood”
- Pablo Neruda

A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write...

Chemotherapy Drugs Broke The Blood-Brain Barrier For The First Time

For the first time, doctors at Toronto?s Sunnybrook hospital used ultrasound waves to successfully deliver chemotherapy drugs directly to the affected part of the brain thr...

Nobel Prize Winners Point The Way In Battle Against Diseases Of Poverty

What does it take to bring the fruits of scientific innovation to vulnerable patients in the world’s poorest communities? The discoveries recognised by the 2015 Nobel...

How India Cut Neonatal Tetanus Mortality By 99.76%

In 2012, a 12-day-old boy (we will call him “Baby Boy”) in Assam’s Sivasagar district could not be given his feed because he had lockjaw his face muscles ...