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[…]
Litemed India targets menstrual pain with “Curapod-M”
Litemed India, a Hyderabad-based health-tech firm, has launched Curapod M, which it claims is a science-led solution designed specifically for menstrual pain and cramps. Fully[…]
