No headway on HIV vaccine after 20 years DNA India | Pune: Global efforts over the last two decades to produce an HIV vaccine have made little headway. Here’s why: Vaccine trials on monkeys and chimpanzees have routinely failed to elicit a satisfactory immune response against the human immuno-deficiency virus, the cause behind acquired immuno-...
Cure hope for osteoporosis The Telegraph India New Delhi, Feb 08: Indian and American scientists have discovered a new medical strategy to combat osteoporosis, raising hopes of a daily pill to prevent and even reverse this chronic disease of bone loss common in post-menopausal women. | The researchers have shown through animal studies that block...
Corporation signs MoU The Hindu | Staff Reporter | PACT: Corporation Commissioner K. Baskaran (second from right) and Senior Vice-President (manufacturing) India Cements S. Nanthakumar (left) exchanging the MoU in Tirunelveli on Monday. | TIRUNELVELI: The Corporation signed a forma...
A career with tremendous scope The Hindu | Physician assistance programme offers lots of job opportunities in health care sector. | Rare course: Only a few universities in India offer higher degree in PA programme | While the Central and the State governments are busy launching new schemes ...
JNU invites applications The Hindu | For higher studies: JNU will hold the national-level Combined Biotechnology Entrance Examinations on May 20 | The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, has invited applications for the Combined Biotechnology Entrance Examinations for admiss...
Children more sensitive to jatropha poisoning: study Indian Express | An armed forces study has shown that children are susceptible to jatropha poisoning if they ingest the seeds of the plant. Specialists from the Department of Paediatrics and Neonatology at Command Hospital Pune and Military Hospital at Ahmednagar c...
At PU, research gets over but wait for stipend continues Indian Express | Even as research work at the Panjab University continues to dip — no PhD scholar has been registered for nine months — the existing scholars have to wait for their stipends. | Over 20 PhD students in the pharmacy department haven't got their stipen...
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Hopes rise for osteoporosis-hit women Deccan Herald Kalyan Ray, New Delhi, Feb 7, DHNS: | A new cure for osteoporosis, a common ailment for thousands of middle-aged women, is in the offing. | However, the bad news is doctors cannot ...
Childhood's end? The Hindu | KANKANA BASU | The series of juvenile suicides - 26 in four weeks - has Mumbai on the edge. The pressure to perform and the lack of supporting family structures often lead youth ...
GM foods: How safe are they? The Times Of India What are GM and Bt foods? | GM stands for genetically modified. Plants of certain crops like soyabean, corn, cotton, sugar-beet and many others can be tweaked by scientists so that...
Cure hope for osteoporosis The Telegraph India New Delhi, Feb 08: Indian and American scientists have discovered a new medical strategy to combat osteoporosis, raising hopes of a daily pill to prevent and even reverse this chronic disease of bone loss common in post-menopausal women. | The resear...
Health insurance awareness low in country, says report Zeenews Mumbai: A majority of people have low awareness about health insurance products offered by various companies in the country, says a report. | "A majority of Indian consumers are unable to distinguish between the different insurance products offered b...
Govt to identify most polluted areas in State Deccan Herald Bangalore: | A comprehensive database on the pollution hotspots in Karnataka is being readied by the State government so that effective action can be taken to reduce pollution levels, said Secretary of the Department of Ecology and Environment, Kanwa...
DCI not to sanction dental colleges for 5 yrs The Times Of India MANGALORE: It is bad news for those wanting to set up dental colleges in India. The Dental Council of India (DCI), in a conscious effort at maintaining quality of education in dental colleges, has decided not to give permission for any such college f...
Rathore's attacker angry, depressed IBN Live Lucknow: S K Sharma, a Banaras Hindu University (BHU) professor and father of the man who Monday attacked former Haryana police chief S P S Rathore, said "abnormal circumstances" must have forced his son to stab Rathore, but "he should have not taken...
