British Indian ex-minister Alok Sharma knighted; 30 more PIOs to be honoured

Alok Sharma, an Indian-origin former UK minister, has been knighted for his contribution to combatting climate change through his leadership at the COP26 summit by King Charles III in his first New......

Type 1 Diabetes On Rise In India

India on average lost 44.85 years of a lifetime due to Type 1 diabetes in 2021. *IMAGE: In India, 818,620 people were living with Type 1 diabetes -- an increase of 5.1 per cent from 2020.......

India among top 10 countries with highest Type 1 diabetes prevalence: Lancet

An estimated 8.4 million people were living with Type 1 diabetes across the globe in 2021, and India was among the top ten countries with highest prevalence of the disease, according to a modelling......

AIIMS director Randeep Guleria gets another 3-month extension

The tenure of All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi director Dr Randeep Guleria has been extended by another three months, according to an office memorandum issued by the premier......

Ranbaxy acquires Biovel, enters vaccine line

India's biggest drug maker, Ranbaxy, has acquired Biovel Lifesciences, a Bangalore-based biotech company making typhoid and influenza vaccines, for an undisclosed sum. With this, Ranbaxy would make......

GSK to use gel to enter OTC erectile market

GSK Consumer Healthcare, the world's largest pharmaceutical OTC company, is soon to roll out a blockbuster product in the burgeoning erectile dysfunction drug market.The new OTC gel, an invention......

Reliance Clinical Research Services goes global

Reliance Clinical Research Services has commenced studies for clients in the United States, the United Kingdom and West Asia in areas including infectious diseases, vaccines and oncology to take......

Clinical trials: Why India is irresistible

A vast, unwieldy population, a plethora of diseases, and rampant poverty: this was the picture India presented to the outside world till a while ago.But these days the fact that India has the......

Why swimming's transgender ruling is important to the sports world

IMAGE: FINA also agreed to work towards establishing an 'open' category for some events. Photograph: Costas Baltas/Reuters Why swimming's transgender ruling is important to the sports world......

Semenya accuses IAAF of breaching confidentiality

'The arbitration proceedings are subject to strict confidentiality provisions and this information should not have been released' IMAGE: South Africa's Caster Semenya. Photograph: Eric......