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In what can be a shot in the arm for the field of cognitive science, the Ministry of Science and Technology has come up with screening tools for early detection of dyslexia in four different languages. The assessment of dyslexia is carried out using a series of age-appropriate, culturally-valid psychological tests in the child's native language - Hindi, English, Kannada and Marathi. Scientists working on the project said nearly 70 to 80 per cent of students are diagnosed with Learning Disorders (LDs). Dyslexia is the most common learning disability with almost 35 million children in the country suffering from it.

A team of specialists at Johns Hopkins Children's Centre, including one of Indian origin, has successfully treated a child with a highly virulent form of tuberculosis known as XDR TB, or extensively drug-resistant TB.

Researchers have developed a cost-effective one-step test that can screen, detect and confirm hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections from blood or urine samples. Current blood-based HCV testing requires two steps and can be expensive, inconvenient and is not widely available or affordable globally.

Lead exposure in early in life is associated with increased risk of sleep problems and excessive daytime sleepiness in later childhood, says a new study.

Researchers have identified a drug that works to limit the spread of glioblastoma, the most common primary tumour of the brain and central nervous system which is also regarded as one of the most aggressive of all cancers.

The blind spot of the human eye can be shrunk with certain eye-training exercises, thus improving a person's vision slightly, a new study has found. The human eye includes an unavoidable blind spot. That is because the optic nerve that sends visual signals to the brain must pass through the retina, which creates a hole in that light-sensitive layer of tissue.

Staying up late and not getting six hours of sleep puts one at high risk of becoming a Type-II diabetic, a disease once believed to be caused primarily by being overweight, prominent diabetes experts say.

A whopping 66.11 percent of Indian children possess "abnormal levels of sugar" in their body, reveals a new nationwide three-year-long survey, the results of which were released here on Friday.

Of the eight million cancer deaths worldwide in 2012, five million occurred in middle-income countries and 500,000 in low-income countries, says a new study led by an Indian-origin researcher.

The rate of new HIV infections rises significantly in the five years leading up to violent conflict in a country, says a new study. The researchers looked into the relationship between bloodshed and HIV incidence in sub-Saharan Africa.