Health

The exercise aims to check readiness of hospital against any possible surge in Covid-19 infections.

With an aim to stop harassment of LGBTIQA+ people, Tamil Nadu State Medical Council has declared “conversion therapy” – a method of counselling used for convincing them to change their sexual orientation to heterosexual or the gender identity of transgender people to cisgender – as an act of “professional misconduct”. In a notification, the council […]

Amid growing concerns over the rampant use of narcotics in Kashmir, senior authorities on Tuesday issued an advisory for the sale of certain drugs in the Valley. In the advisory, the Kashmir divisional administration issued a set of dos and don’ts for the sale of drugs categorised by the Pharmacy Council of India under categories […]

More than 6 years back when UP native Gayatri (name changed) made up mind to get rid of her organs identical to females, she would not have thought that she would have a perfect male genital one day. Cut to October 2022, Gayatri now has a perfectly-shaped and functional penis thanks to doctors at the […]

Indian tech start-up Avay Biosciences has launched ‘Mito Plus,’ an indigenous state-of-the-art bio 3D printer that can print human tissues. Bioprinting is a method of tissue replication that uses ‘bioinks’ which are engineered to print artificial living tissues like skin used during bioprinting. Bioprinting temporarily or permanently supports and nurtures living cells. The first prototype of Mito […]