Research Article: May 26, 2024
Background: Physician trainees need to have robust gender awareness for better professional relationships and patient outcomes. A cross-sectional study was conducted among undergraduate (UG) medical students (MBBS) of a medical college in Hyderabad, India, in Novem...
Vemulapati Pragjna*, Vaibhav Shandilya*, Vishruti Pandey*, Katkuri Sushma, Aravind P Gandhi
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CREATIVE SPACE: May 22, 2024
So, what if I smell, speak and look different,
So, what if I am drugged and obtunded?
I can still sense
My emotions are not blunted.
Vasundhara Rangaswamy
Book Review: May 21, 2024
Carl Elliott. The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No. WW Norton & Company, May 14, 2024. 368 pages. ISBN-10: 1324065508, ISBN-13: 978-1324065500
J Wesley Boyd
Letter: May 16, 2024
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), India, has released guidelines for intensive care unit (ICU) admission and discharge [1] to guide intensivists and registered medical practitioners (RMPs) in an Expert Consensus Statement (ECS). This is based on the recommendations of 24 experts ...
Hareesh Angothu, Krishna Prasad K M, Bhadrinarayan Varadarajan
Commentary: May 10, 2024
For decades, India has been a staunch supporter of the human rights regime. However, lately, its positive role has been jeopardised by glaring instances of human rights violations against prisoners, especially those with disabilities. Since the edifice of the Convention on the Rights of Persons w...
Shruti Tripathi, Shreya Tripathi, Satendra Singh
Commentary: May 09, 2024
Erosion of standard of healthcare in the United Kingdom underlies the industrial action taken recently by staff in the publicly provided National Health Service. Underfunding and understaffing, largely as a consequence of neoliberal government “austerity” policies implemented following the 2007-0...
John WL Puntis
Letter: May 03, 2024
Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) are a major cause of global mortality and morbidity. In India, Alcohol Use Disorder is among the most prevalent of these [1]. Inadequate knowledge about the illness and its treatment, lack of resources, and regressive government policies (criminalisation of drug us...
Sanjukta Ghosh, Ajinkya Kalia, Abhilasha Jogadand, Abhijit Ramdas Rozatkar, Tamonud Modak
Commentary: April 26, 2024
The primary objective of any research, regardless of its domain such as health, technology, psychology, or any other subject, is to enhance the overall well-being of individuals. Rigorous processes are involved in conducting research ethically and in communicating its outcomes to society. However...
Shubhada Nagarkar