Indigenous vaccine against diarrhoea virus ‘safe’
A Phase III randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of 116E rotavirus vaccine undertaken in infants at three centres in India was
Read MoreDay: January 16, 2016
Editorial: The wages of scientific fraud
With the Supreme Court of South Korea upholding its 2010 ruling, Hwang Woo Suk, the notorious stem cell researcher from
Read MoreThe “landmark” stem cell paper may be retracted
The landmark studies on “stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency” (STAP) published in Nature on January 30 this year, which first
Read MoreEditorial: Regulating stem cell therapy
A revised set of guidelines on stem cell research was recently released by the Indian Council of Medical Research and
Read MoreMenAfriVac: first use of vaccine outside of the cold chain in Africa
“It’s a great Indian success story,” said Dr. Jacob John, a former virologist of the Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore.
Read MoreBlack skin, a response to skin cancer risk
The ability of ultraviolet radiation to cause skin cancer is well established. Yet, it is only “generally believed” that the
Read MoreEditorial: No end to inhumanity
The State of Washington recently joined the ranks of two others in the United States when Governor Jay Inslee suspended
Read MoreDuplication of images in stem cell papers spotted
After Hwang Woo Suk of Seoul National University plunged into ignominy for duplicating images and for other unethical practices in
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Restrictive global governance system affects public health
“The present global health crisis is not primarily one of disease, but of governance…” noted Ilona Kickbusch in a January-February
Read MoreEditorial: The ways of tobacco companies
For several decades, tobacco companies across the world vehemently denied and blatantly deceived and misled people about the dangers of
Read MoreSmoking causes type II diabetes
Fifty years since the first U.S. Surgeon General’s Report in 1964 clearly stated that cigarette smoking was a health hazard,
Read MoreA novel bird flu virus kills woman
Less than a year after the emergence of a novel bird flu virus A H7N9 in China, yet another new
Read MoreNow, reversing adult cells to stem cells becomes easy
If in 2006 Shinya Yamanaka showed to the world that reversing adult cells (differentiated cells) to behave like stem cells
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