Health & Medicine
Spread of drug-resistant malaria bug should worry India: expert
04 Feb 2017
Detection of malaria parasites resistant to the frontline artemisinin (ART) combination therapy in some south Asian countries should worry India, Govindarajan Padmanabhan, a top biochemist and malaria researcher at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, has warned
Deep learning algorithm does as well as dermatologists in identifying skin cancer
27 Jan 2017
Rather than building an algorithm from scratch, the researchers began with an algorithm developed by Google that was already trained to identify 1.28 million images from 1,000 object categories
Antibiotics, not dirty hospitals, the main cause of C. difficile epidemic
25 Jan 2017
Overuse of antibiotics like ciprofloxacin led to the outbreak of severe diarrhoea caused by C. difficile that hit headlines from 2006 onwards. The outbreak was stopped by substantially reducing use of ciprofloxacin and related antibiotics