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 ...

A New Supermaterial Lets This Artificial Heart Pump Like The Real Thing

It’s been made by material science engineers from Cornell University, who say their foamy cardiovascular replica could have the potential to stand in as a replacement...

A New Supermaterial Lets This Artificial Heart Pump Like The Real Thing

It’s been made by material science engineers from Cornell University, who say their foamy cardiovascular replica could have the potential to stand in as a replacement...

Scientists Just Created An Artificial Skin That Could Let Patients Feel Again.

“The aim of our research was to make a synthetic skin that communicates information about pressure in the same way that real skin does,” Alex Chortos, a researc...

Over 8 Lakh Medical Shops To Be Shut On 14 October To Protest Online Sale Of Drugs.

As fast growing e-pharmacies eat into the incomes of lakhs of small chemist outlets, nearly 850,000 of them will remain shut on 14 October to protest against the online sal...

FIGO Calls For Treatment Developed At Wayne State To Fight Worldwide Preterm Birth.

Recommendations to reduce the rates of preterm birth developed at the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health’s Perinatology R...