Editorial: An ominous situation
That the medicine chest is bereft of effective new drugs to fight the extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) strain has once
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Can cold exposure be an effective strategy to fight obesity?
Besides high-energy food intake and a sedentary lifestyle, a factor that may be playing a role in expanding waistlines of
Read More‘Long-term outcomes in South African patients with XDR-TB poor’
Long-term outcomes in South African patients who have extremely-drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) are “poor” immaterial of HIV status, notes a
Read MoreEditorial: Smoking reveals a patchy record
Even as the prevalence of daily smoking among men in India has come down from about 34 to 23 per
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Choroideremia: gene therapy shows promise
The first Phase I clinical trial of a gene therapy for an inherited cause of progressive blindness called choroideremia —
Read MoreWhy oral polio vaccination must for India-bound Pakistanis
With no cases of polio being reported for three consecutive years, India will be declared as polio-free by the WHO
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Kerala on a mission to cut neonatal deaths to reduce infant mortality rate
Goa and Manipur may have knocked Kerala off the pedestal, but at 12 deaths among children less than one year
Read MoreIPAQT: subsidised Xpert TB test in private labs gets popular
The number of labs/private hospitals in the country offering the WHO-approved tests like GeneXpert, Line Probe Assay (LPA) for diagnosing
Read MoreMangroves in Florida expanding poleward
Adding to the growing evidence of climate change-induced poleward migration and/or expansion of many fish and terrestrial plant species, a
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