Medical Snapshot

Podcast: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's a superbug – and it can travel all across the world

Microbiologists talk about how drug-resistant bacteria from one part of the world can affect those from another part, even if they have never ventured abroad.

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian
· Nov 16, 2016 · 03:30 pm
There’s a new test to detect drug-resistant TB, but Indian doctors don’t trust it yet

The test is not up to WHO standards, say experts.

Menaka Rao
· May 27, 2016 · 02:30 pm
Reduce pain and manage symptoms: What research says about yoga for cancer

Medical studies show that yoga is useful to manage side effects of the rather harsh cancer therapies, but not much more.

Nayantara Narayanan
· Mar 31, 2016 · 04:30 pm

The best medical images of the year: a mesmerising nano-world where science becomes art

Winners of the Wellcome Images Award 2015 tell us about how they got their special shot.

Robert Marc, Gregory Szeto, Khuloud Al-Jamal and Michael Hausser, The Conversation
· Mar 16, 2015 · 06:30 am