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Swedish researchers say adding more types of diabetes would enable better, more personalised treatment.

It turns out we are just hard-wired to love socializing. Now we just have to learn how to do it healthily.

How does that square with most of women's anecdotal evidence to the contrary?

India’s top-selling medications for diabetes have been approved for sale based on shoddy testing, with the requisite trial data falling well short of international standards, finds a new study published in the journal BMJ Global Health. As a result, the health of many 

While few women would say they enjoy having their period, most would agree that there seems to be huge variability in the quality of the experience. One variable that can make several days of each month markedly less pleasant is 

Life is stressful. Most of us have learned to live with it as a bad side effect of modernity. But stress has been with us for a long time — ever since the first sabre-toothed tiger chased the first human. 

One of the biggest reasons why it’s hard to eradicate malaria is that a dormant form of the parasite lurks in the livers of some patients. This dormant form is resistant to most antimalarial drugs and can reawaken months or 

The first case of a transgender woman being able to breastfeed was documented recently, after the 30-year-old underwent a hormonal regimen to stimulate lactation. The woman approached doctors at Mount Sinai’s Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York 

For the past decade, even as researchers have developed more and more treatments that allow people with HIV to live longer and healthier lives, and early treatment and safe sex campaigns have slowed the spread of the virus, there’s been 

Hey, Government of India. Long time, no chat. With Akshay Kumar’s Pad Man releasing tomorrow, I’ve got menstruation on my mind — and a proposal for you. Before we begin, I’d like to make it clear that in an ideal 

The brain acts much differently when we’re outdoors, compared to when we’re inside a lab, a new study has found. “Something about being outdoors changes brain activity,” said Joanna Scanlon, the study’s lead author. Scanlon’s research team put EEG equipment 

Electronic cigarettes are fast becoming the must-have souvenir from a trip abroad (remember when it was a VHS tape?) and while they’re still not common here, they’re fast picking up steam. So, here are the four, main things you need 

Antibiotic-resistant superbugs have been increasing in recent years all over the world, but significantly in India, where a perfect storm of factors — from unregulated sales of antibiotics, overprescription of antibiotics, and patient expectations — have created an environment wherein 

Prerna Sharma works long hours at one of Mumbai’s most popular hair salons. As she begins another work day of cutting, colouring and styling her clients’ hair, she tells me about her experience of being diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome. 

In a time of constant access through technology and evening calls with global counterparts replacing the typical 9 to 5, and life moving at a faster pace than ever, what has traditionally been called ‘work-life balance’ has never felt so 

A study recently published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry suggests a new and unusual source for a male birth control pill: ouabain, a plant extract that African warriors and hunters traditionally used as a heart-stopping poison on their arrows. (First there 

Some things improve with age. The gender gap in housework is not one of them. A new study has found elderly men across Europe and the US spend less time on housework than elderly women — a kind of obvious