New York: Listening to music appears to have a calming effect on hospital patients hooked up to breathing machines, according to a new report. Mechanical ventilation can be a distressing experience for critically ill patients, but researchers say tranquilizers will only prolong their hospital stay. To investigate whether listening to pleasing tunes could help, a group of American and Australian researchers reviewed studies that tested music plus standard care against...
05:31 PM, Dec 09, 2010
New Delhi: Food was once a good word. It symbolised fulfilment, nutrition and well-being. But when did it all change? When did we become such guilt-ridden unhappy eaters? Food writer Ratna Rajaiah explores many such questions in her new book "How the Banana Goes to Heaven". "As our cells are nourished and replenished, rejuvenated, our noses should exult in the embrace of a hundred aromas. Our taste buds should laugh...
05:04 PM, Dec 03, 2010
New Delhi: In a bid to check the widespread abuse of antibiotics, India's drug regulator, Drugs Controller General of India (DGCI), has proposed a new rule that will make it difficult for patients to self-medicate. Doctors will now have to write prescriptions for antibiotics in duplicate. One copy will have to be retained by the chemist for a year, from the date of sale, for verification and audit. Violations will...
11:05 AM, Oct 29, 2010
New Delhi: Robert Edwards of Britain won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine for the development of in-vitro fertilization, a ground-breaking process that has helped many couples over the last two decades have children. While Edwards was working towards his dream - creating the world’s first in vitro fertilized or test tube baby - a physician in India was working on the same subject but the odds were piled heavily...
06:28 PM, Oct 05, 2010
Stockholm: Robert Edwards of Britain has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine for the development of in-vitro fertilization, a breakthrough that has helped millions of infertile couples to have children. Edwards and Patrick Steptoe, who died in 1988, developed the IVF technique, in which egg cells are fertilised outside the body and implanted in the womb. Starting in the 1950s, Edwards and Patrick Steptoe developed so-called IVF technology in...
03:24 PM, Oct 04, 2010
London: For Africans wondering whether the malaria drugs they've bought are real, there may soon be a quick way of finding out: sending a text message. Across the continent, more than 30 percent of malaria medicines are estimated to be fake, and many look identical to the real thing. A new project called mPedigree lets consumers send in a code via text message that lets them check if their drugs...
11:39 AM, Aug 21, 2010
Scientists used mice to test cells that target molecules that the HIV uses to enter human cells. ...
08:56 AM, Jul 03, 2010
A Food and Drug Administration committee in the US will today decide on its safety and effectiveness. ...
10:03 AM, Jun 19, 2010
Doctors they say are healers and sometimes the only god for life but today the doctor is feared more than the disease. India today is increasingly producing a generation of doctors who are taking bribes instead of the Hippocratic oath. It’s a decay that has become part of the system, a system where trust deficit makes patients anxious every time they visit their doctors. ...
08:45 PM, May 16, 2010
CJ Suraj's wife, who was carrying a dead foetus in her womb, died of docs negligence in Delhi. ...
03:18 PM, May 09, 2010
CJ Suraj's wife, who was carrying a dead foetus in her womb, died of docs negligence in Delhi. ...
03:18 PM, May 09, 2010
Sildenafil citrate and Tadalafil are the main salts used in drugs to treat erectile dysfunction. ...
06:21 PM, May 07, 2010
Parliamentary panel says homeopathy producers must not get funds. ...
05:54 PM, Feb 22, 2010
Researchers to share award for work that improved understanding of cells. ...
03:30 PM, Oct 05, 2009
Experts say there is a need for newer forms of defence. ...
03:16 PM, Oct 03, 2009
Cabinet approved amendments to the Indian Medicine Central Council Act. ...
03:54 PM, Sep 11, 2009
Celebrity news website claims pop star's doctor is under probe focus. ...
11:26 PM, Jul 15, 2009
The singer was reportedly addicted to pain killers. ...
01:25 PM, Jun 30, 2009
Farewell | Sony mourns | Elvis' heir | Kids' custody | Last call ... 
