Polio eradication by vaccination: good news and bad

A clinical trial gives hope that the right vaccination scheme could eradicate polio worldwide by 2018. Another study, though, warns that mutated viruses could jeopardize th...

Climate Change Could Happen Slower for the Next Decade

Atmospheric temperatures are expected to rise slowly in the next decade Temperatures have risen more slowly in the past decade than in the previous 50 years and will contin...

Global Warming has Temporarily 'Paused' due to Climate Fluctuations and Weaker Solar Irradiance

Global warming has been temporarily 'paused' according to a group of scientists, who attribute this interlude to climate fluctuations and a more restrained sun. Researchers...

Rotavirus vaccine can reduce 26,985 deaths in India

The central government’s decision to introduce rotavirus vaccine in India’s Universal Immunization Programme can reduce as many as 26,985 deaths annually due to...

How to Talk About Climate Change So People Will Listen

Not long ago, my newspaper informed me that glaciers in the western Antarctic, undermined by the warmer seas of a hotter world, were collapsing, and their disappearance ?no...

Habits of Highly Humanistic Doctors

Even in these times of highly commercialized health care you might still come across doctors and physicians who are humanistic.

How are they different?

I re...

Cotton Candy

The train was late the third day in a row. It meant that there would be a crowd again and I wouldn?t get to stand with my back to the wall. Of course it is just a 30 minute...

Climate conundrum: Conflicting indicators on what preceded human-driven warming

When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently requested a figure for its annual report, to show global temperature trends over the last 10,000 years, the Univ...

TB vaccine may prevent infection too, says study

BCG vaccine effective in fighting infection only in countries more than 40° latitude above the equator The vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), bacillus calmette- guerin ...