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Medicine Nobel

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine, awarded to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, marks a pivotal moment in our understanding of gene regulation and cellular differentiation.

Innovative means to tackle delirium

Delirium is a condition that occurs commonly in older people. The rising elderly population means more cases of delir ium to manage, emphasising the need for capacitybuilding to manage this condition in hospitals, at home or in 24-hour residential care homes.

Buddhadeb better, desperate to go home

The medical team attending to ailing former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is unwilling to discharge the 79-year-old Marxist leader till his intravenous (IV) antibiotics course ends by this week though he is desperate to go back home.