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April 01, 1999
Between five and 10 per cent of HIV infection is acquired perinatally. The incidence of such infection will rise as more women get infected. Children with HIV progress to AIDS-related illness more rapidly than do adults. Hence, the prevention or reduction of perinatal transmission rates is an ess...
October 01, 1998
A critique of the management of rape and sexual assault in women and girl children
October 01, 1998
One of modern civilisation's achievements is the realisation and dissemination of the knowledge that the rights to life, liberty and security of person are primary, inherent and inalienable to every human being, irrespective of race, nationality, economic status or other man-made discriminations,...
July 01, 1998
Medical ethics and medical education could mean different things to different generations, different students. So we sought people's experiences, and their comments on what medical ethics mean in the lives of students and teachers today. The questions were constructed so as to identify the links ...
July 01, 1998
We often saw patients being investigated for research purposes, not for their own good. I remember one seriously-ill patient being subjected to all sorts of painful tests, though he was clearly going to die anyway. When I asked my seniors, they said he was an interesting case, and they might as w...
July 01, 1998
My first memory of my medical college days is of a professor who would ask me strange questions during the bedside clinic, such as: "Where is Kamshet?" or, "Where are the Alpana Talkies?" As an outsider to the city,I had no clue of the correct answer. Everybody enjoyed such interrogations except ...
July 01, 1998
To the best of our knowledge, medical ethics is not taught as a separate subject in Indian medical colleges. St John's Medical College has a programme for teaching medical ethics to its undergraduate students. We describe here the structure of our programme, the syllabus and the teaching methodol...
April 01, 1998
All research designs have their strengths and limitations. A comparison of lung cancer in the US and India with average tobacco intake in the two countries could say something about whether cigarette smoke causes cancer. So could following two groups, of smokers and of non-smokers, over ten years...
April 01, 1998
Advances are constantly being made in medical science. There has been a marked increase in the number of medical journals. The corporate sector has also entered this field in a big way. Many newer medical periodicals are being published by corporate houses. These are often distributed by post or ...