Medicine

Dr Subash Babu has become the first Indian scientist to win the prestigious 2022 Bailey K Ashford Medal for his exemplary research and contributions to tropical medicine.

Dr (Maj) Satish Somayya Jeevannavar’s medtech startup launched the AiSteth, a digital stethoscope that records and analyses patient heart sounds that can be interpreted by professionals across cities, in a bid to provide affordable rural healthcare.

Dr Dhruv Joshi and Dr Dileep Raman through their platform Cloudphysician provide intensive care to patients in ICUs through a remote system. Here’s how it works.

Dr K Prathibha from Kerala speaks of how she lobbied to bring a protocol for conducting health screening tests of the accused and suspects in police custody.

Fibroheal Wound Care, a Bengaluru-based startup founded by Vivek Mishra, Bharat Tandon and Subramanian S, makes silk protein-derived bandages that help heal wounds, amputations and treat burn victims.

At a clinical trial by the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a drug named Dostarlimab was administered to patients with rectal cancer, who have now been declared ‘cancer free’. Here’s all you need to know about the trial and the future of the study.

Founded by Meenakshi Singh, Dr Cherian and Kuldeep Singh Chauhan in December 2019, Synapsica addresses the issues of inconsistency, inaccuracy and misdiagnosis in imaging and radiology practice.

Almost 200 years ago, Kolkata-based Dr Madhusudan Gupta performed India’s first human dissection. But what did it mean for medicine, and how did it affect existing practices in colonial India?

Indian doctors have taken to creative content to give advice about lesser-known medical facts. Here are 10 such doctors you ought to follow on Instagram.

Centred in Jamkhed village in Ahmednagar district, and extended to other villages in neighbouring districts, Dr Mabelle Arole and Dr Rajanikant Arole's Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP) remains the gold standard of what it means to provide community-based primary healthcare to rural India.