Dr N. Sekhar wins Dr K. V. Thiruvengadam Award for Health Care Excellence
Dr N. Sekhar, renowned vascular surgeon at Kauvery Hospital, was honoured with the prestigious Dr K. V. Thiruvengadam Award for Health Care Excellence for his[…]
Beyond Condoms and Vasectomy: Why Male Contraception Is Finally Having Its Moment, and What It Means for India
For about half a century, men have had two dependable ways to prevent pregnancy: condoms and vasectomy. A third, withdrawal, is widely regarded as unreliable.[…]
Teaching the Body to Hunt Its Own Cancer: The Science Behind the mRNA Cancer Vaccine
On August 19, 2026, two drug companies announced a result that cancer researchers had waited years to see. In a large Phase 3 trial, a[…]
Russia Isolates Nearly 200 After Lab Worker’s Death in Siberia; Officials Now Cite “Pneumonia of Unknown Aetiology”
A laboratory worker at an anti-plague institute in Russia’s Irkutsk region has died, and close to 200 people who may have had contact with her[…]
Deepinder Goyal’s Temple Wants to Put a Sensor on Your Head. Could It Really Reshape the Wearable Market?
The wearable market has spent a decade measuring the same handful of things on the wrist and, more recently, the finger: heart rate, sleep, steps,[…]
Your Smartwatch’s Calorie Count May Be Lying to You — And the Error Gets Worse the More It Matters
Nearly 4 in 10 US adults — roughly 100 million people, and about 560 million worldwide — now wear a smartwatch or fitness tracker, leaning[…]
MIT Built a Robot That Runs Its Own Physics Lab — Here’s Who Actually Stands to Benefit
Setting up a single precision optics experiment can take a trained researcher months of painstaking, hands-on work — nudging mirrors by fractions of a millimeter,[…]
Corridor Raises $25 Million to Build an AI-Powered Health Insurance Broker for Small Businesses
A new startup wants to fix a problem that’s easy to describe and hard to solve: small businesses in the US routinely get worse service[…]
Kauvery Hospital, Trichy Hosted 10th Edition of CATALYST Advanced Laparoscopic Surgical Skills Course
Kauvery Hospital, Trichy, hosted the 10th edition of CATALYST – Advanced Laparoscopic Surgical Skills Course from September 18 to 20, 2026, at Courtyard Marriott, Cantonment,[…]
Two-day academic programme on comprehensive dementia care organized
Athulya Senior Care, in collaboration with Madras Medical College (MMC) and Athulya Academy, organised a two-day academic programme titled “Comprehensive Dementia Care: Current Concepts, Clinical[…]
