Indian-American researcher developing portable device to detect tainted medicines
NEW YORK--An Indian-origin researcher is developing a low-cost, portable device to detect tainted medicines and food supplements that otherwise can make their way to...
Cancer Day Special: Diagnosed with cancer? Don’t take it lying down
By Nishant Arora
NEW DELHI-- Being diagnosed with cancer at a prime age with flying dreams and a family to look after can be earth-shattering...
Healthy lifestyle may trim heart risks in diabetics
NEW YORK--Just two months of healthy living classes can significantly reduce the risk of common diabetes complications, including cardiovascular disease, stroke, limb amputation and...
Singular view of cancer: A cancer’s surprise origins, caught in action
By Nancy Fliesler
Boston Children's Hospital Communications/Harvard Gazette
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Boston Children’s Hospital have, for the first time, visualized the origins of cancer from the...
All you need to know about Zika virus
NEW YORK-- Outbreaks of Zika virus, a mosquito-borne vector, were first reported from the Pacific in 2007 and 2013 (Yap and French Polynesia respectively)...
How app helped rural Indian women use modern contraceptives
WASHINGTON-- A unique smartphone app developed by an Indian-American researcher from the Johns Hopkins University has helped married rural women in India better understand...
Biological Origin of Schizophrenia
By PAUL GOLDSMITH
Harvard Gazette
The risk of schizophrenia increases if a person inherits specific variants in a gene related to “synaptic pruning”—the elimination of connections...
Feeling depressed or hopeless? Check with your brain, not heart
By Nishant Arora
NEW DELHI-- Have you started feeling depressed or moody while in love, lacking focus or motivation to finish a task at work...
Diet, exercise not enough to restore normal weight but mindfulness could
NEW YORK--Researchers at a US university have found the brains of obese children function differently from those children of healthy weight, and suggest that...
IMANE Women’s Forum to Host a Talk on Healing Relationships on March 20
BURLINGTON, MA—Women’s Forum of the Indian Medical Association of New England, known as IMANE, will host a talk on “Healing Relationships Through Energy Medicine...
