A novel test based on genetic information allows individuals to calculate their age-specific risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, a study led by an Indian-origin scientist has revealed.


Novel Alzheimer's test can predict age of disease onset


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Do you frequently have meals at a restaurant? Beware, you may struggle to control your food budget since people who dine out frequently tend to underestimate the money they spend on eating out, a study led by an Indian-origin researcher has showed.


Frequent dining out may dent your food budget


Researchers including one of Indian origin have developed a smartphone-controlled, battery-operated diagnostic device that costs as little as $100 and claims to detect Zika, dengue and chikungunya within 30 minutes.


Smartphone app to detect Zika, dengue in 30 minutes


Medical services in 17 government hospitals in Maharashtra were severely hit on Monday after over 4,000 resident doctors went on a mass Casual Leave to protest growing incidents of attacks by patients' relatives.


Patients suffer as 4,000 doctors go on mass leave


Medical services in 17 government hospitals were disrupted on Monday when over 4,000 resident doctors went on a mass Casual Leave to protest growing incidents of attacks by patients' relatives.


4,000 Maharashtra resident doctors go on mass leave


The Federation of All India Farmers Associations (FAIFA) on Monday urged the Health and the Finance ministries to levy low taxation on tobacco crops under the new GST regime as it will affect the economic condition of the farmers.


Tobacco farmers urge ministries to keep low tax under GST


President Michel Temer has guaranteed Brazilian society and the ambassadors of 20 countries that buy the country's meat that those products are healthy and that the criminals that had been adulterating them had been stopped.


Brazil meat scandal: Temer assures foreign markets


Ordering packaged food from e-commerce sites has increased many folds in the recent years but the absence of manufacturing and expiry dates on such products often leads to the product not being fully utilised. A whooping 96 per cent of the participants in a recent survey agreed that ecommerce sites should mandatorily disclose manufacturing and expiry dates of such products sold on their sites.


Consumers want ecommerce sites to display manufacturing and expiry dates on packaged food: Survey


The warming climate could make us shorter over time, suggests new research that found that mammals in the past had responded to extreme global warming events by shrinking in size.


Global warming could make us shorter


Reassess how you live your life on a day-to-day basis by knowing about genetic research, flick through an engaging and inspiring bildungsroman of Lord Ramas faithful Hanuman, and read about key issues in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.


Science, mythology and the Andaman islands (IANS Books This Weekend)


The Tata Trust has agreed to open a cancer research centre-cum-hospital in Jharkhand capital Ranchi, official sources said on Thursday.


Tata to open cancer hospital in Jharkhand's Ranchi


Software major Wipro on Thursday announced winning a 12-year contract to develop enterprise master patient index tool for the National Healthcare System (NHS) in Scotland.


Wipro to develop patient index tool for Scottish healthcare


West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday met the widow of Sanjoy Roy, who died last month due to alleged 'inadequate treatment" at a private hospital here, and offered her a job at the state tourism department.


Mamata gives government job to Sanjoy Roy's widow


Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda on Thursday said the new Health Policy 2017 prioritises investments and financing of health services.


New policy to prioritise health investments, says Nadda


The United Nations warned on Wednesday that around two-thirds of Yemen's population, are in need of urgent assistance to avoid the risk of starving to death over the coming months.


UN warns two-third Yemenis facing famine


Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who is a tuberculosis and Hepatitis B conqueror, on Wednesday launched a mobile application named 'ABC of Breast Health' here and said timely detection, treatment and awareness can held a person survive any disease.


Timely detection of any diseases is beneficial: Amitabh Bachchan


The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Wednesday ruled out any foul play in the death of a 28-year-old Dalit student of Jawaharlal Nehru University, who allegedly hanged himself in his friend's room here on March 13.


AIIMS autopsy rules out foul play in JNU student's death


With Indian big pharma companies getting bogged down due to regulatory issues, mid-cap companies based in Hyderabad may provide opportunities for investors, said HDFC Securities on Wednesday in a research report.


'Andhra Mid-cap pharmas may offer investment opportunities'


Indian-American Seema Verma has been sworn-in as the head of a key healthcare agency in the Donald Trump administration.


Indian-American sworn-in as top US healthcare agency head


A Unani medicine practitioner practising black magic has been arrested in Hyderabad on charge of marrying a woman patient through fraud.


Man practising black magic held for marrying woman fraudulently


A newborn baby was allegedly abducted by an unidentified woman from a government hospital in Kolkata on Tuesday, triggering protests, including a road blockade in the city's heart.

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