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Jay Desai
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Franklin Templeton MF Schemes See Dip After Future Group Firms Default
Two group companies missed their payments due on Thursday.
Dec 04, 2023
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Why You Should Read 'Early Indians' Before You Cast Your Vote
Tony Joseph's 'Early Indians' tells you why what the Hindu right-wing wants you to believe is wrong, conveyed well with the evidence to back it.
Dec 03, 2023
Media
The Pattern of Misinformation Infiltrating Indian Media Today
'India Misinformed: The True Story' is an extension of the online work of 'Alt News', which is geared towards debunking fake news.
Jun 10, 2019
Top Stories
Debate: Preprints Are Double-Edged and Their Risks Outweigh Their Benefits
Preprints are likely to create confusion and distortion, and they are not the solution for paywalls. They need to be reconsidered.
Nov 27, 2018
Expanded Access and the Bedaquiline Debate: A Practitioner's View
The Indian government and DCGI already have a programme along the lines of FDA-introduced Expanded Access but it needs to be more robust and better outlined.
Jun 25, 2018
Corporate Hospitals in the US Point to the Path India Shouldn't Be Taking
Unfortunately, the Indian healthcare system is following the American model at the moment.
Jun 21, 2018
The Art of Medicine, and Its Inadequacies
I am pessimistic about the science that I have chosen to practice all my life. But I remain very bullish on the art.
Jun 12, 2018
Why We Should not Call Our Communal Friends ‘Bigots’
If we are to win this ‘war’, our strategy should instead be to educate and reform.
May 05, 2018
The Modern-Day Hippocratic Oath Disappoints
The World Medical Association's new Hippocratic Oath is re-energising but has two obvious deficiencies.
Jan 07, 2018
Medicine in 2017 Saw Big Breakthroughs in Child Neurology
An AIIMS paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine on treatment of children suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy provided high levels of evidence about treatment.
Jan 01, 2018
The Data Shows Women Make Better Doctors, So Why Do They Face a Glass Ceiling?
The case of Soumya Swaminathan rising to the top ranks at the WHO is an exception.
Dec 24, 2017
The Science of What an Absolute Meat Ban Can Do to Our Brains
Recent research is beginning to throw some light on whether eating meat during pregnancy impacts the development of the foetus's brain.
Jun 04, 2017
Science
Science's Search for the Origins of Belief Has Drawn It Into the Human Mind
Religion has evolved with Homo sapiens. It will likely fade away with further evolution when we have better regulation of our emotions and more refined ways of handling stress.
May 15, 2017
Science
The Truthful Version of What Arogya Bharati Is Trying to Sell
We now have a reasonably good scientific explanation for what Karl Marx so eloquently described merely on the basis of his observations of society and intuition.
May 10, 2017
The Scientific Case Against the Death Penalty
Many experts believe that there is enough data to emphatically claim that violent behaviour is, in part, biological.
May 01, 2017
Top Stories
The Exhilarating World of Neurogenetics
In a short time, we have made such tremendous progress that many diagnoses are now re-categorised based on the genes and mutations rather than based on the clinical manifestations.
Apr 23, 2017
Here's What We Know About the Science of Stammering
We know that there is a biologic basis to the disorder that is stammering and that it goes beyond the affected person’s control.
Apr 20, 2017