Month: March 2018

Representative image of a disease-based peer group meeting. Credit: youtube/JSS

How Community-Led Healthcare Is Helping People Around the Achanakmar Tiger Reserve

Shruti Samant and Anup Agarwal 09/03/2018

Villagers in Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur district meet regularly to educate...

A scene from the documentary film 'Unrest' (2017). Source: YouTube

A Film on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome That Tells a Story We Don’t Normally Hear

Amba Salelkar 08/03/2018

Beyond the candy fluff of ‘Women’s Day’, Unrest raises...

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New Medical Regulation Rules in Karnataka Suggest Government Has Flip-Flopped on Private Sector

Dr Sylvia Karpagam 08/03/2018

After putting out a strong draft of patient-centric amendments...

A metformin tablet. Source: YouTube

India’s Top-Selling Diabetes Drugs Backed up by Inadequate Clinical Data: Study

The Wire Staff 08/03/2018

Over 60 million people in India have been diagnosed...

A cell culture of HeLa cells. Credit: Doc. RNDr. Josef Reischig, CSc./Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Cells of Unknown Origin May Have Influenced Scientific Results for Over 50 Years

Neha C.V. 08/03/2018

Aggressive cell contaminants and subsequent misidentification of cell lines...

A general assembly in progress at the International Astronomical Union. Representative image. Credit: IAU

Where Are India’s Women Astronomers?

Aswin Sekhar 08/03/2018

The ratio of female to male professional astronomers in...

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Javed Abidi’s Brand of Activism Will Continue to Power Generations of Disability Rights Champions

Amba Salelkar 07/03/2018

His methods were unorthodox and discussions in any corner...