Can health spending of 2.5% of GDP only by 2025 help achieve the goals set by India’s National Health Policy?
The long awaited National Health Policy announced a few days ago proposes to raise public health expenditure as a percentage
Read MoreAcademics can change the world – if they stop talking only to their peers
Savo Heleta, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Research and creative thinking can change the world. This means that academics have enormous
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‘Copy and paste’ content spotted in IISER Thiruvananthapuram director’s papers
Over 50 papers published between 1984 and 2014 by Prof. V. Ramakrishnan, formerly with the School of Physics, Madurai Kamaraj
Read MoreControling HIV-like virus in monkeys by early intervention
In an interesting study, the immune system of monkeys was found capable of controlling HIV-like virus (simian-human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV))
Read MoreIndian researcher uses novel strategy to increase wheat yield, improve resilience to drought
Using a novel route, an Indian researcher has been able to increase wheat grain yield by 20% and also improve
Read MoreInstitutional delivery high but only 42% are breastfed in first hour of birth in India
Despite institutional delivery being as high as nearly 79% nationally, the number of children in India breastfed within one hour
Read MoreWHO’s website for vaccine safety information gains traction
The extent to which rumours about the safety of vaccines can impact the number of children vaccinated was witnessed in
Read MoreOstriches existed in India over 25,000 years ago, DNA evidence shows
Based on a DNA analysis of a fossilised eggshell fragment of ostrich, Indian researchers have for the first time found
Read MoreWhy is TB bacteria not on WHO’s deadly superbug list?
Of the estimated 10.4 million new tuberculosis cases globally in 2015, nearly 0.5 million estimated cases were multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB
Read MoreMumbai researchers identify a protein critical for sperm motility
A Mumbai-based team of researchers has identified one more protein — heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) — found in human
Read MoreLow measles-rubella vaccination coverage may cause more cases of congenital rubella syndrome
Only about 50 per cent of children aged nine months to 15 years in Tamil Nadu have been vaccinated by
Read MoreWhy India needs the rubella vaccine?
Buoyed by the successful elimination of polio six years ago and maternal and neonatal tetanus and yaws in 2016, India
Read MoreWatery exoplanets, but is there life?
The quest to find life outside the solar system got a big boost with the discovery of seven Earth-size extra-solar
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