Study Finds Over 30 Minutes of Instagram or Snapchat Use May Weaken Children’s Attention...
NEW DELHI, India — Children who spend more than 30 minutes a day on platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and Facebook may experience...
New Antibody Therapy Shows Strong Early Results Against Multiple Myeloma
NEW DELHI, India — A new immune-targeting antibody therapy has shown striking potential to eliminate residual traces of multiple myeloma, a deadly blood cancer,...
Experts Urge More Skilled Surgeons for Complex Revision Knee and Hip Surgeries in India
New Delhi— With India’s ageing population and the growing number of artificial joint failures, experts are calling for an urgent increase in the number...
Air pollution can heighten anxiety and trigger panic-like symptoms: Doctors
By Rachel V Thomas
New Delhi-- Amid continuing poor air quality in the national capital, doctors on Friday noted that air pollution can not only...
Brain-Eating Amoeba Infection: Kerala Reported 170 Cases and 42 Deaths in 2025
NEW DELHI, India — Kerala recorded 170 cases and 42 deaths from amoebic meningoencephalitis, commonly known as brain-eating amoeba infection, in 2025, the government...
Memory Is Reconstruction, Not Replay: Insights from Neuroscience Experts on Harvard Thinking Podcast
In a recent episode of the Harvard Thinking podcast, hosted by Samantha Laine Perfas, leading neuroscientists and psychologists explored the intricate and often surprising...
Study Links Common Childhood Virus to Bladder Cancer Risk Later in Life
NEW DELHI-- A common virus that many people contract in childhood may trigger DNA damage that increases the risk of bladder cancer decades later,...
Over 600,000 Lives Lost to Malaria in 2024; Drug Resistance Emerging as Major Global...
NEW DELHI, Dec 4 — Malaria infected an estimated 282 million people and killed 610,000 worldwide in 2024, according to the World Health Organization’s...
IIT Bombay Study Reveals How TB Bacteria Reinforce Their Outer Coating to Survive Antibiotics
NEW DELHI — A new study from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has shed light on how Mycobacterium tuberculosis — the bacterium...
Mapping our deep-rooted relationship with medicinal plants
By Kermit Pattison
Harvard Staff Writer
Regions with longer histories of human settlement tend to have greater variety, study finds
Long before modern pharmaceuticals, our ancestors turned...