Dr Prem Jagyasi and Team

I don’t usually prefer taking medicines for minor ailments because I fear their side-effects. But things may get better with Roy Curtiss and his fellow researchers of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, who are developing a new…

Rember, a new trial drug, is the biggest breakthrough for treating Alzheimer patients with declining memory. The UK scientists hail this achievement as the biggest ever in last 100 years. The drug is still on trial run. Nearly 321 patients with…

Has the time arrived for us to move back to the old glass containers as new studies are showing that plastic bottles can cause immense harm to our body? Bisphenol A or BPA, a polycarbonate plastic material that is used in making plastic bottles can…

American researchers have developed a new Bird Flu vaccine designed to last longer and which could offer more protection against the deadly strain of Avian influenza. This vaccine, developed by study author Suresh Mittal and his team at Purdue…

Everything we eat, do and think about has an impact on our health. As we look for ways to fight a wide range of diseases, the American Association for Cancer Research 2008 Annual Meeting suggested that continuous engaging in bad habits like drinking..

The drug and medical devices companies, in order to expand the market for their products, have been influencing doctors with consulting fees, free foreign trips and sponsoring educational conferences. The financial ties between the companies and the…

The United States of America has kept a goal of completely eradicating the mumps virus from USA by 2010 but sudden rise in the number of mumps cases since 2006 has raised doubts whether the target could ever be met. There have been 6,584 cases of mumps.

The painful tennis elbow that has crippled the likes of Sachin Tendulkar for days restricting their hand movements for days together has finally found its cure. Tennis elbow, known as lateral epicondylitis in medical terms, is actually a degenerative…

The possibility of cure of diseases like cancer depends on the extent of the development of the malignant tumors in the body. The earlier the diagnosis of the disease, the brighter is the possibility of cure. Traditional identification of the…

The worldwide projects on scanning the human DNA are leading to the conclusion that a large number of diseases are actually linked to the genetic composition of an individual. With the advancement of gene-scanning technique, since 2005, studies have…