Year: 2017

Ashwini Kumar Choubey

Sorry Minister Saheb, I Will Continue to Treat Poor Patients from Bihar or Anywhere Else

Shah Alam Khan 12/10/2017

An AIIMS doctor reacts to minister of state for...

A pregnant woman stands on a scale before receiving a prenatal exam at the Maternity Outreach Mobile in Phoenix, Arizona October 8, 2009. Credit: Reuters

Why Giving Birth Is Safer in Britain Than in the US

Kate Wombersley 11/10/2017

The US has the worst rate of maternal deaths...

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Will Facebook’s Blood Donor Registration Feature Aid India’s Blood Banks?

Rezwan 11/10/2017

Facebook aims to make it easy for its users...

The structure of β-arrestin. Credit: Emw/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

In Big Breakthrough, IIT Kanpur Team Builds Powerful Tool to Control Cell Signalling

Ranjini Raghunath 11/10/2017

Scientists used artificial antibodies to stop a single signalling...

Left: sediment core collection from a dry lake bed in Banni Right: top - fungal spore, middle - snail shells , bottom - charcoal particles observed in the sediment layers. Credit: Anushree A.S.

Ecological History of Banni Grasslands Can Be Understood by Paleoecological Clues

Priyanka Runwal 11/10/2017

Tropical grasslands and savannas, although very large – both...

Celestina of Porcón Alto, a rural region high in the Andes, whose family has lived on the same plot of land for generations. Credit: Andrea Vale/IPS

Waiting for Healthcare in the Mountains of Peru

Andrea Vale 10/10/2017

“The doctors are always telling us that they’re going...

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Sixteen Children Die at Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College in Last 24 Hours

The Wire Staff 09/10/2017

Over a span of one week in August, over...