Over 2000 years ago, Hippocrates proposed that all disease begins in the gut, a concept we now recognise more than ever. The human body contains a varied ecosystem of microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses, and fungi, known as the microbiota. Researchers are increasingly focusing on the potential link between the microbiome and neuropsychiatric diseases. The microbiota … Read more
Ajay Seth, Economic Affairs Secretary 5 min read Last Updated : Jul 24 2024 | 11:32 PM IST Economic Affairs Secretary Ajay Seth, in a conversation with Ruchika Chitravanshi and Asit Ranjan Mishra, goes into the details of the Budget fine print. Edited excerpts: From the Reserve Bank of India’s extra dividend, you … Read more
The “incredibly alarming” discovery of the poliovirus in Gaza only adds to the besieged territory’s status as one of “the most dangerous places to be a child right now”, the head of the UN children’s agency has warned. The executive director of Unicef, Catherine Russell, said during a visit to Australia that Gaza was increasingly … Read more
When the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this past week issued its final rule codifying the financial disincentives to be levied by its Office for Civil Rights against provider organizations found to have committed information blocking, reaction was swift and mostly dissatisfied from industry groups. The point of such penalties, which could be … Read more
Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Moscow, when Washington’s man in Delhi, Eric M. Garcetti, made a highly uncharacteristic and undiplomatic outburst targeting his host country, questioning whether India was taking its now-close partner, the United States, for granted while it pursued “strategic autonomy” in its relations with Russia, what kind of … Read more
5 min read Last Updated : Jul 24 2024 | 11:54 PM IST Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has diligently done what has been asked of her, as she has consistently done over the last six years — to deliver a Budget document with reasonable fiscal discipline and limited reform ambitions. The question that remains … Read more
To witness how the United States has become the world’s unchallenged oil and gas behemoth is to contemplate the scene from John Allaire’s home, situated on a small spit of coastal land on the fraying, pancake-flat western flank of Louisiana. Allaire’s looming neighbor, barely a mile east across a ship channel that has been pushed … Read more
Albany, Georgia-based Phoebe Physician Group, an affiliate of the Phoebe Putney Health System, operates in a predominantly rural, 41-county service area where caregivers say it has become increasingly acceptable in the patients’ eyes to miss a doctor’s appointment. THE PROBLEM As such, the physician group’s overall no-show rate was at 12% – more than double … Read more
Everyone benefits in a gender-equal society, but many from the Gen-Z feel that feminism has gone a bit too far. A recent survey conducted by IPSOS, a multinational market research and consulting firm on International Women’s Day throws a curveball into our understanding of Gen-Z’s relationship with feminism. Hyped as the most progressive generation, the … Read more
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presents their Blackwell platform at an event ahead of the COMPUTEX forum, in Taipei, Taiwan June 2, 2024. Image: Reuters/Ann Wang Nvidia’s stock has multiplied tenfold since late 2022 and almost tripled so far this year. The chipmaker became the world’s most valuable company for the first time on June 18, … Read more