Health and science stories relevant to India: research, medicine, space, environment, and climate.
Two years after surviving stage IV ovarian cancer, Baishali Bhattacharya gave birth to a healthy baby in 2024 and was able to breastfeed under medical supervision. She was operated on in 2020…
A study by the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (Nimhans) has found that fantasy sports participation can become an emotional crutch for vulnerable adolescents, linked to symptoms of stress, anxiety…
A 16-year-old boy from Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, weighing nearly 275 kg and with a body mass index close to 100, has undergone a high-risk laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital…
Doctors at Fortis Escorts Hospital in New Delhi have treated a 64-year-old man for a torn aorta, a severely leaking aortic valve and kidney cancer in a single hospital stay. The team…
Inherited colour vision deficiency (CVD), commonly called colour blindness, does not affect a child's ability to learn, according to ophthalmologists. Dr Susheela B Nair of KIMSHEALTH, Thiruvananthapuram, said that unlike refractive errors,…
A 3.5-billion-year-old rock from the Singhbhum Craton in Jharkhand carries the oldest directly dated chemical signatures of microbial life, scientists reported. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…
Vedika Devarajan, a ninth-grade student at Redmond High School in Washington, has developed a biomimetic neonatal incubator liner inspired by banana leaf veins. Her project, BananaBaby, aims to reduce hospital-acquired infections in…
Mumbai has recorded a sharp rise in vector-borne diseases in the first half of August. Malaria cases increased from 1,380 in all of July to 1,797, dengue from 466 to 613, and…
Acharya Balkrishnaji, co-founder of Patanjali Ayurved, has shared three Ayurvedic home remedies using garlic for wellness. He recommends consuming raw garlic cloves soaked overnight on an empty stomach to help with cholesterol,…
A study by the ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) in Hyderabad has found that more than one in three older adults surveyed show signs of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), with deficiencies in…
