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Heart Disease, Stroke Among Top Killers in India

Dinesh C. Sharma 12/09/2018

Heart disease and stroke together contributed to 28.1% of...

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The Ethical Guidelines of Biomedical Research In India

Urvashi Bhattacharyya 03/09/2018

A look at the available guidelines for maintaining high...

HPV is the most common virus that infects the reproductive tract and Cervical cancer is by far the most common disease caused by it. Caption and credit: Manu5/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

It’s Time We Think of Men’s Role When Discussing Cancer Care for Women

Disha Shetty 29/06/2018

Men carry the HPV virus. And cervical cancer, of...

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State’s Tuberculosis Rampage Exemplifies the Failure of the ‘Gujarat Model’

Kiran Kumbhar 27/11/2017

Gujarat has so utterly failed in controlling TB that...

cancer

A Mumbai Street Is Ground Zero for India’s Unfolding Cancer-Care Crisis

Swagata Yadavar 04/09/2017

Although India’s incidence of cancer is still low compared...

uterus transplant

Indian Regulators Have Cleared the Way for Uterus Transplants Without Sufficient Research

Sarojini Nadimpally and Aswathi Raveendran 30/08/2017

Concerned authorities have been lackadaisical about drafting regulatory guidelines...

Ticks being picked off (the person in this image is not P.K. Rajagopalan). Credit: P.K. Rajagopalan

The Seven-Decade Transnational Hunt for the Origins of the Kyasanur Forest Disease

Nithyanand Rao 19/11/2016

Zeroing in on the genesis of this strange disease...