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Gardiner Harris. No More Tears, the Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson. Random House; April 2025. 444 pages, $32.00 (USD), ISBN: 978-0-593-22986-6.

Who really owns science? The Sci-Hub ban and the battle for scientific equity

On August 19, 2025, the Delhi High Court ordered the blocking of Sci-Hub, a landmark ruling affecting access to scientific knowledge. Founded by Alexandra Elbakyan, Sci-Hub provided free access to millions of pay-walled research articles. While publishers framed th...

The causality, casualties, and cost of war — what we should know but don’t

Tanisha Fazal, Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War, Oxford University Press, 2024, 256 Pages, INR 2,626 (Hardback), ISBN: 9780190057473

Journeying with cancer: A trilogy
First there was one and then two, and before I knew, there were one too many, counting made little sense, morphing new with exuberance, new is not progress, not always, I found, how can I complain, when, birthed from my own. They too are mine.
The “catch-all” intern: An ethical issue in Indian teaching hospitals

Medical internship is intended to be a supervised period of clinical training, exposure to the hospital setting and learning efficient patient care. However, in many Indian teaching hospitals, interns increasingly function as a “catch-all” workforce, informally ass...

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