Ruby Hall Clinic, MedLern partner to boost clinical training, workforce development

The collaboration will deploy MedLern’s digital learning platform across Ruby Hall Clinic facilities in Pune, enabling structured, standardised and continuous skill development for healthcare professionals to enhance patient care

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India has immense talent, but science investment remains modest: Nobel laureate Szostak at Ashoka University meet

Ashoka University convened leading Indian and global scientists in New Delhi to discuss shifting scientific priorities amid climate change, AI and funding uncertainty.

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Swallowable ‘Smart Pill’ samples gut bacteria from inside, opening new window into digestive diseases

The findings, published this month in the Wiley Online Library, are based on experiments in Sprague–Dawley rats. Researchers demonstrated that the pill-sized microdevice could autonomously move from the stomach into…

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WHO, AYUSH Ministry hold key technical meeting to integrate traditional medicine into global health standards

The agreement lays the foundation for integrating Ayurveda, Siddha, and Un(ASU) systems into global healthcare standards, with India providing both financial and technical support.

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Addiction-stricken community struggles to keep a syringe program going after Trump’s order

In some places, the order is galvanizing support for syringe exchange programs, which decades of research show are extremely effective at preventing disease among intravenous drug users and getting them…

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Heat, humidity due to climate change could increase stunting in South Asia’s children by 2050: Study

Looking at exposure during the third trimester revealed that health outcomes due to heat and humidity were about four times worse than those from heat alone, explained Kathy Baylis, a…

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