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The instant incineration into dust of thousands of people, animals, plants and homes in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and the decades-long suffering of the…
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If you can’t fix the problem change the standards
Reducing the risks of nuclear war — the role of health professionals
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Painkiller: retracing America’s opioid epidemic
Painkiller, Producer: Chris Hatcher, Director: Peter Berg, English, Netflix series in six episodes, August 2023.
Urgent need for planetary health education for healthcare professionals and students in India
The current climate crisis has had a significant negative impact on human health across the globe including India. Climate change is leading to global heating, rising sea levels and more severe extreme weather events such as floods, cyclones and droughts. These events have direct and indirect det...
Right to abortion of survivors of rape in India
The Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Amendment Act, 2021, contains some progressive changes. However, survivors of rape will continue to go through mental as well as physical trauma to secure an abortion. We argue that the MTP Amendment Act, 2021, fails to address the rights of rape survivo...
COMMENT : The Consumer Protection Act, 2019: A critical analysis from a medical practitioner’s perspective
The landmark judgment in the case of Indian Medical Association v VP Shantha in 1995 brought the medical profession under the ambit of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986. The Consumer Protection Act, 1986, was later repealed and replaced by the Consumer Protection Act, 2019. This article delves i...
Antimicrobial stewardship in low- and middle-income countries: Developing a broader perspective through an ethical analysis
The increase in the number of cases of antimicrobial resistance has gained attention worldwide. The main drivers of this situation are the misuse and overuse of antimicrobials for human and animal health. The imbalance between ensuring appropriate use of antimicrobials and providing equal access ...
In Clinical Trials Registry-India, the classification of sponsors needs to be standardised

Background: In recent years, there has been a big push to register trials, but there are a number of problems with the data in public clinical trial registries. Here, we describe a cross-sectional study of the classification of the primary sponsors of all Phase 2, Phase 2/3, and Phase 3 interv...

Reframing language in mental health discourses: towards a more humane approach
This is a reflection on the nature of language used by psychologists in the contexts of referrals and assessments. Through an example of a brief referral, I attempt to unpack the “clinical” language that may dehumanise and pathologise individuals. Further, I attempt to reframe it through a langua...
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