Indefinite strike called by hundreds of junior medicos has left healthcare services crippled in all nine government-run medical colleges and hospitals of Bihar. The worst-hit were the Patna Medical College and Hospital and Nalanda Medical Colleg... Read more
Why are people upset about new fast food restaurants opening? Are they really concerned about public health and pollution or are they just snobs? I have a confession to make. During the school six-week holidays I took my children to a Kentucky F... Read more
Regular exercise does in fact reduce people’s mental-health burden, according to a study published in The Lancet Psychiatry. The study examined the relationship between exercise and mental health to better understand the influence of exercise ty... Read more
Law enforcement officials in the US state of Virginia said on Thursday that they had taken down a multi-state drug ring and seized enough cheap fentanyl from China to kill 14 million people. The bust was announced in the wake of growing efforts... Read more
An international team of researchers led by Yale University, University of Iowa, and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, has discovered a new pathway that may improve success against an incurable t... Read more
This creamy tuna and anchovy mayonnaise from northern Italy suits meats, hard-boiled eggs and buttery lettuce, but is superb over tomatoes You say tomato, I say tonnato: the classic Piedmontese sauce with fat slices of summer tomatoes sprinkled... Read more
New research suggests that many adults in the United States who take low dose aspirin daily to prevent heart disease could be at risk of harm. New research finds that more than 6 million U.S. adults take aspirin to prevent heart disease without... Read more
Doctors use lasers and retinoic acid to treat skin damage. Scientists have now uncovered a common mechanism that links both, paving the way for new treatments. What links laser and retinoic acid treatment for sun damage? Skin damage, in the form... Read more
Blame junk food or a lack of exercise. But long before the modern obesity epidemic, evolution made us fat too. “We’re the fat primates,” said Devi Swain-Lenz, a postdoctoral associate in biology at Duke University. The fact tha... Read more
In this Spotlight, we introduce the glymphatic system: the brain’s dedicated waste clearance system. Now implicated in various conditions, it is high time that we became acquainted. Astroglia (illustrated above) play a pivotal role in the... Read more
