Medical Explainer
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Video: Could your butt muscles be dying because of your desk-bound lifestyle?
Gluteal amnesia, or dead butt syndrome, may be more common than you think.
Shibika Suresh & Makrand Sanghvi
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What Shubh Mangal Saavdhan gets wrong about erectile dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction may be caused by psychological factors like stress but also physiological factors like bad cardiovascular health.
Prerana Dharnidharka
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Doctors find that the 'boy with bleeding eyes' has cancer
A four-year-old boy in Assam has a rare symptom of leukemia that caused his eyes to bleed.
Priyanka Vora
Trending
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Ordinary voters flagged Modi speech to Election Commission – and came up against a broken system
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Harsh Mander: Past, present and future – what Narendra Modi’s campaign of hate signifies
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Mumbai principal sacked after being targeted by Hindutva website; says she is mulling legal action
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‘What does it take / to let go?’: There’s a new anthology of English haikus written by Indian poets
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Memoir: A journalist remembers the 1960s and how the Naxal movement was portrayed in books and films
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What causes autism? What we know, don’t know and suspect
One of the great and enduring mysteries of autism is what causes the brain to develop so differently.
Andrew Whitehouse, The Conversation
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You can train your body into thinking it’s had medicine
Can we harness the mind to reduce side-effects and slash drug costs?
Jo Marchant, mosaic.com
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Why the simple formula for weight loss (or gain) doesn’t often work for dieters
Calories consumed minus calories burned: it's as simple as that. But, then, not all calories are equal.
Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley, mosaic.com
Video
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Watch: Students in Pakistan enact moments from Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding event
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‘Hind’s Hall’: Rapper Macklemore releases poignant song in support of Palestine, US campus protests
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Met Gala 2024: From Alia Bhatt to Isha Ambani, what Indians in attendance wore
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Watch: South Korean band performs Rabindra Sangeet accompanied by traditional Korean instruments
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Watch: This man fused hip-hop with Bharatnatyam to dance to Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
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Menopause: A condition that affects half the population is woefully neglected
There are a few things science doesn’t know about the menopause: what it’s for, how it works and how best to treat it.
Rose George, mosaic.com
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Why most cancer isn’t due to ‘bad luck’
Two major studies have come to different conclusions – but there's much more to it than chance alone.
Sarah Allinson, The Conversation
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Explainer: What is the 'flesh-eating' disease that's spreading across Syria
The collapse of Syria's health system is helping spread leishmaniasis but not in the way some media outlets have reported.
Michael Barrett, The Conversation
The Reel
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Watch: Politics, ambition and crime in Vasantha Balan’s ‘Thalaimai Seyalagam’
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How the fantasy film ‘Pathala Bhairavi’ heavily influenced Telugu cinema
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Watch: Manoj Bajpayee’s hundredth movie ‘Bhaiyya Ji’ is a revenge drama
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Start the week with a film: Why ‘Manjummel Boys’ was a blockbuster
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How actor Shahana Goswami flies under the radar and above the competition