Year: 2016

Ramdev-PTI

Baba Ramdev’s Newspaper Ads Go Against the Grain of Sound Science

Pushpa M. Bhargava 14/05/2016

He deserves credit for popularising yoga as an effective...

biotek

Biotech Entrepreneurs Who Give Back to Their Homeland

Nandita Jayaraj 14/05/2016

Besides creating a local impact via organic farming, Aardra...

Air pollution

Air Pollution in India Now A “National Crisis”

Soumya Sarkar 13/05/2016

Indian cities dominate the list of the world’s most...

Mosquito-Repellent Soap Invention Could Wash Away Malaria in Africa

Kieran Guilbert 13/05/2016

Faso Soap is designed to repel mosquitoes for up...

tuberculosis, STREAM clinical trial, TB research, infectious diseases, New England Journal of Medicine, UN General Assembly, Pretomanid, TB vaccine, MDR TB, XDR TB,

African Scientists a Step Closer to Testing for TB in a Matter of Minutes

Gerhard Walzl 13/05/2016

According to the WHO, 1.5 million people died from...

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Education Hasn’t Diminished India’s Preference For Boys

Tanay Sukumar 12/05/2016

The sex ratio of children ever-born (that is, including...

A hypodermic needle injection. Credit: stevendepolo/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Toward a Nationwide HPV Vaccination Campaign in India

Farah Khan 12/05/2016

Naysayers have forwarded unsubstantiated claims about lack of vaccine...