Syrian doctors talked to ABC(American Broadcasting Company) News about treating some of the youngest victims of the chemical attack that happened in Northern Syria yesterday. Some of the children died even before they reached the hospitals while many kids asked for their parents as they were given the treatment. Mizar Hassani is a doctor working […]
It’s been an year since she underwent a heart transplant.( In fact, the first child in Mumbai to get a heart at just the age of eight.) Since her life was saved by doctors, Madhavi Vishwakarma has taken the resolution to become a cardiologist herself! Madhavi- a class four student of Lakshdham High School, was […]
A 14 month old Iraqi child who had disfigured face successfully underwent a high-risk skull reconstruction surgery in a hospital in Delhi. It’s said that the kid is recuperating well. The surgery has once again revealed Indian medical fraternity’s prowess in the global medical field. The boy had to spend his first year with a […]
The petition that Nima Purohit(37) and her husband, Ujjwal Purohit filed in the Supreme Court in 2012 for amending the Medical Termination of Pregnancy(MTP) Act, 1972 is still pending. It’s been now almost five years since Nima underwent pregnancy termination. “When we lost our baby, our dreams were shattered,” she says. The couples claim that […]
Sujoy Guha, a 76 six year old biomedical engineer who has invented a male contraceptive that’s proven to have a 98% success rate in preventing pregnancy(the same as condoms) is on the lookout for a company that would sell it. As per Herjan Coelingh Bennink, a gynaecology professor who helped create the contraceptives Cerazetta and […]
The most recent round of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership(RCEP) was held in Japan in early March. One of the key aspects of this year’s RCEP was the insistence by developed nations to add provisions which will impact negatively the production of cheaper medicines. If these provisions are added, it could badly affect India’s Revised […]
A plague hit the city of Surat in Gujarat in September 1994. The government officials soon declared an international public health emergency and reported it as a pneumonic plague epidemic. Needless to say, this resulted in widespread panic-both in India and abroad. Though the plague was largely pneumonic, the bubonic form was found in three […]
A vaccine made by Pune-based Serum Institute has shown an inspiring 66.7% efficacy against severe rotavirus gastroenteritis in infants in Niger(West Africa). The oral vaccine is now considered as a gamechanger in the global war against the virus. As per the WHO, the virus kills around 600 children every day, out of which 22% are […]
Dr C Palanivelu’s life is anything but ordinary. For one thing, he started his medical career when he was 40- starting at an age when many medical professionals are well settled in life. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. Let’s look at things from early on. Challenging poverty The young Palanivelu used to […]
Over the past couple of decades, Kerala has built a robust reputation as one of the best places for palliative care globally. The contrast in the state of affairs for terminally ill patients now as opposed to thirty years ago could be seen in an experience related by Dr MR Rajagopal- an anasethetist based in […]