Is painkiller safe? Before eating pancreas, know about them. ...

Pain in the body is common. Many times this pain is caused by a disease, sometimes due to serious injury. But some people are also caused by pain due to weakness, some due to stress. In this way, people start taking pencillers without thinking.

Breaking news: Sample medicines worth crores seized, 2 held

In a major haul, a joint team of the drug department and police raided a house in Sambhal district on Friday morning and seized a huge

Scientists discover way to halt breast cancer spread

Researchers at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute found that blocking the production of asparagine with a drug called L-asparaginase in combination with a low-aspargine diet greatly reduced the breast cancer’s ability to spread in mice.

New research:Diet may influence the spread of a deadly type of breast cancer

Investigators found that by limiting an amino acid called asparagine in laboratory mice with triple-negative breast cancer, they could

Report:Old antibiotic compounds could become life-saving drugs

Turns out, discarded antibiotic compounds could be developed for new life-saving drugs.

In the heyday of antibiotic development in the mid-20th century, many different chemical compounds with antibacterial properties were examined, but only a small proportion was selected for development into drugs.

"YEAR ENDING" a time for appraisal: 10 ways to get the most out of your performance appraisal

Performance appraisals are like a rite of passage in the world of work. As employees, we're often involved in them whether we like it or not. But how often do you think about how to get the most out of them? Here are 10 tips for doing just that.

1. Acknowledge that it's necessary
Feedback is the best way of ascertaining whether we're getting better at what we do, but don't feel obliged to put up with out-of-date performance appraisal processes. Today, we're used to getting regular feedback and communications online.

Breast cancer treatments may increase heart risk, doctors warn

Chemotherapy has saved the lives of millions of women with breast cancer, but it may have also damaged their hearts.

Secret of wine: In wine, there's health: Low levels of alcohol good for the brain- report

While a couple of glasses of wine can help clear the mind after a busy day, new research shows that it may actually help clean the mind as well. The new study, which appears in the journal Scientific Reports, shows that low levels of alcohol

Now cancer diagnosis become easy: Low-cost "lab on a chip" to detect cancer developed

Scientists have developed a low-cost reusable "lab on a chip" - using an ordinary inkjet printer - that can detect lethal diseases like cancer and could potentially enhance diagnostic capabilities around the world, especially in developing countries.

A health boost for Indian pharma sector

It has been a long established fact that pharmaceutical sector plays an important role in ensuring a robust health sector in any country.  The sector’s turnover during India’s independence was hardly Rs 10 crore. The sector has grown so phenomenally that its

one step towards HIV/AIDS treatments: Novel pharmaceutic action for HIV/AIDS discovered

A research team at the University of Nebraska Medical Center has used a process they call LASER ART (long-acting slow effective release antiretroviral therapy) to discover an unexpected pathway to open cell storage areas for antiviral drugs. The discovery could revolutionize current treatments for HIV/AIDS by extending the actions of disease-combating medicines.

Q4 Earnings Faring Well for Pharma ETFs

The Q4 earnings season is faring better than the last few years with not only earnings growth on track to reach the highest level in two years but also total earnings set to create a new quarterly record. Most sectors are coming up with good results, with healthcare being no exception. The sector has impressed with both results and price performance.

Trump wants to blow up the FDA. The drug industry? Not so much

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resident Donald Trump wants to remake the Food and Drug Administration. And he happens to have a “fantastic person” in mind to do it, he said Tuesday — someone who will turn the agency into an industry-friendly shop that cranks out new cures on the double.

How thousands of cancer patients were prescribed a drug that couldn’t help them

The Food and Drug Administration frequently speeds experimental medicines to sale by approving them before scientific evidence shows they work.