New subtype of prostate cancer discovered
Washington, Jun 17 : New subtype of prostate cancer discovered Scientists have identified a new subtype of prostate cancer that occurs in about seven per cent of patients with advanced…
Mumbai: Telecom executive gets kidney from poor nephew, thanks to DNA match
MUMBAI: A DNA report came to the rescue of a 64-year-old top telecom executive, whose plea to receive a kidney from his poor nephew, was rejected in March on suspicion…
Scientist launches hunt for Loch Ness ‘monster DNA’
Inverness, United Kingdom, June 17, 2018 -Tales of a giant creature lurking beneath the murky waves of Loch Ness have been around for more than 1,500 years — and one…
Indian-American indicted for multi-million dollar fraud scheme in US
New York: An Indian-American former president of a blood-testing company along with its founder has been charged in the US for allegedly engaging in a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud…
PGI begins trials of first ‘made in India’ biological heart valve
LUCKNOW: Human clinical trail of first ever ‘Made in India’ biological heart valve has begun with city’s Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences on board. The observations, which…
NCLT Chandigarh allows Fortis to withdraw SRL demerger scheme
The National Company Law Tribunal bench in Chandigarh has allowed Fortis Healthcare to withdraw its scheme to demerge SRL diagnostics from the group and merge it with its step down…
Health spending pushed 55 million Indians into poverty in a year: Study
About 55 million Indians were pushed into poverty in a single year because of having to fund their own healthcare and 38 million of them fell below the poverty line…
Novel imaging technique can capture over 10k genes at once
Los Angeles: In a breakthrough, scientists have developed a new technique that enables them to image 10,421 genes at once within individual cells. The technique, called intron seqFISH (sequential fluorescence…
Medical seats: Why pure merit works in Assam, not in UP
If medical admissions were entirely merit based what would be the cut-off percentile required to fill all seats? Without the entire list of NEET qualified students in the country, gauging…
MBBS fee in private colleges capped at Rs 6.8 lakh per year
BENGALURU: The maximum annual fee for a first-year Indian student of an undergraduate MBBS course in a private medical college in Karnataka cannot exceed Rs 6.8 lakh a year. For…
