1. Carry on Doctor

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    When you turn 57 and move towards the next day, a system that performed well all these years can begin to send signals. The wild and the adventurous overlook a calendar at their own risk. All machines have a lifetime. Some stand by their warranty, some outlast, some succumb. So...
  2. Breastfeeding vs Rotavirus Vaccine?

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    By Arun Gupta The scientists responsible for this study (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20442687 ) argue in favour of interfering with the process of breastfeeding to allow the Rotavirus vaccine. The authors say : “”The lower immunogenicity and efficacy of rotavirus vaccines in poor developing countries could be explained, in part, by neutralizing activity in...
  3. Anna exercising in hospital

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    Anna Hazare, whose health has been a cause of concern to his well-wishers seems a bit better, if this photograph tweeted by his PA, Suresh Pathare is any indication. Anna is admitted to Sancheti hospital in Pune.   Anna has been suffering from severe cough, making sleeping at night difficult....
  4. Hospitals in the ICU

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    By Uma Sudhir   The police escort was in the line of a verbal firing. I was at Osmania General Hospital in Hyderabad, in the RMO’s room, where a convict brought in from Chanchalguda central prison for a medical check-up was bewildered, looking on in total confusion over what the...
  5. How Indian doctors loot patients

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    This is an article written by Padma Bhushan Dr B M Hegde, Editor-in-Chief of `The Journal of the Science of Healing Outcomes’ and former VC of Manipal University. Dr Hegde is also a former professor of Cardiology of The Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London. He lives in Mangalore....
  6. Bharat to India, 100 km

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    By Uma Sudhir (This blog was posted by Uma Sudhir on her blogsite www.umasudhir.wordpress.com in September 2009. The blog has been edited to bring it up to date. But the subject matter of the blog is as relevant today as it was then) In the last week of August, I...

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