Dr Prem Jagyasi and Team

According to a recent report published in the Lancet medical journal, obesity can cause the risk of several cancers like those of the bowel, kidney, and breast to almost double up. Risk of numerous blood cancers such as adult leukemia, multiple…

Viruses are responsible for a large number of diseases many of which are life threatening. In most cases, it is difficult to treat viral infections with common medicines. It is more than often left to the body’s immune system to develop antibodies…

Bats use their ears as radars to receive sonic waves that help them navigate in the dark. The same method of echolocation has been pioneered to help blind children and adults to maneuver their movements. Visually impaired people are believed to be…

Sociologists and Philanthropists need not worry about the population explosion any more; the tobacco epidemic is doing its job. If the governments across the globe do not take appropriate action, over 500 million people could die who have all the…

Technology is making all efforts to ‘create’ healthy babies. From animals to humans, more discoveries are coming out in the open. Even in the formation of a human being, science is intervening to prevent deformities in fetuses. To remedy thousands…

If everything goes well, then days are not far away when the tool to fight Bird-flu would be there in experts’ hands. This hope sparked up after researchers at Griffith University Institute for Glycomics, in the leadership of Professor Mark Von…

The problem with most prosthetic hands commonly available is lack of dexterity being of no real help to the amputees other than being ornamental in nature. This was until Touch Bionics introduced its bionic hand. This advanced prosthetic arm, dubbed…

When the neurologists were thinking that they had deciphered the functioning of the different parts of brain, a new discovery has now forced them to review their research. The doctors have accidentally stumbled upon a new area in brain responsible…

Among the various things, kids hate perhaps the needles used to vaccinate them against flu top the list. However, parents are helpless just like the medical communities while administering the flu vaccine and pushing the sharp needles into their…

Can you imagine a lunch with dishes none of which have traces of salt? Possibly you can’t. Salt is precisely one ingredient without which most of the food we eat seems very drab and tasteless. But some info that I’m just about to convey you is…