Monthly Archives: December 2017
Scientists reveal why anti-depressants do not work the same way in all
The mystery of why anti-depressants do not work equally well in all patients may finally have been solved.
Researchers from University Medical Center Mainz and...
AIIMS docs remove ice pick with minimally invasive video surgery
AIIMS surgeons have removed an ice-pick that had pierced a person's lungs, through minimally invasive video-assisted surgery.
The ice pick had narrowly missed the 27-year-old's...
Global applause, but GOI still short on health in 2017
Between rolling out a largely benign National Health Policy at the start of the year and bringing in Parliament a Bill that would allow...
Canada to allow recreational marijuana in 2018, India has a long history
In the second half of the new year, Canada would have joined only a handful of countries around the world where recreational marijuana is...
Bill to end MCI era seeks to allow Ayush doctors practice allopathy
It envisages allowing Ayush doctors to practice modern medicine after clearing a bridge course
The National Medical Commission Bill 2017 envisages allowing Ayush doctors to...
New guidelines to include brain cancer patients in drug trials
Cancer patients whose disease has spread to the brain or the central nervous system (CNS) are traditionally excluded from clinical trials of new anti-cancer...
Harvard researchers find chemical that increases efficacy of TB drugs
Researchers, including those from Harvard have zeroed in upon a chemical that can interfere with the propagation of the Tuberculosis bacterium, raising interesting prospects...
Not safe to eat in North and East; a look at what McDonalds food...
It wasn't quite the Thank God It's Friday moment for McDonalds afficionados as the morning papers bore tidings of a statement from the global...
Procalcitonin – a novel marker to help reduce antibiotic overuse
For every physician who has ever been baffled by a patient’s response - or the lack of it - to an antibiotic, procalcitonin may...
Exercise can improve memory in people with mild cognitive impairment
One more reason to get out of the couch and get moving. Exercise it seems is the key not only to a leaner body...
