November 2015

Of the eight million cancer deaths worldwide in 2012, five million occurred in middle-income countries and 500,000 in low-income countries, says a new study led by an Indian-origin researcher.

The rate of new HIV infections rises significantly in the five years leading up to violent conflict in a country, says a new study. The researchers looked into the relationship between bloodshed and HIV incidence in sub-Saharan Africa.

UBM India is all set to host the 3rd Annual India Pharma Awards scheduled on 30th November, 2015 at ITC Maratha, Mumbai and pleased to announce TAKE Solutions as our presenting partner. The event is more than an ‘Award Night’ and it will bring together the luminaries of the Pharmaceutical Industry combined with a night of glamour, entertainment, jubilation and the pride of being the crème de la crème of the Indian Pharmaceutical sector.

Children of poverty stricken families suffer lags in brain development and score as much as 20 per cent lower on cognitive tests, a new study has found. Low-income children had atypical structural brain development and lower standardised test scores, with as much as an estimated 20 per cent in the achievement gap explained by development lags in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, researchers said. Socioeconomic disparities in school readiness and academic performance are well documented but little is known about the mechanisms underlying the influence of poverty on children's learning and achievement.

India aims to scale up start-ups in the biotechnology sector to at least 1,500 in the next two to three years to boost technological interventions in the health and agriculture sectors, a senior biotechnology department official said.

Diabetic retinopathy is one of the biggest causes of preventable blindness among Indian adults, doctors said. Calling diabetes an uncontrolled disease in India with 65 million cases, the doctors say that at least 40 percent of the severe diabetics will suffer from diabetic retinopathy if steps are not taken to control it.

It may appear counterintuitive but including a little bit of sweets in your meal could help you stop gaining unhealthy weight, new research suggests.

An experimental drug aimed at combating Alzheimer's disease has a host of unexpected anti-ageing effects in animals, a new study says. To combat the disease, the drug targets Alzheimer's major risk factor - old age.