Category: Editorials
Quality metrics in academia: time to revisit the…
Publication and citation metrics have been used for many years now as apparently objective parameters to evaluate educational institutions as well as individual researchers. A recent report in Science, about the Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS), near Chennai, Tamil Na...
Death and denial of care in Indian prisons
Custodial death is generally linked in the public mind with police brutality and torture, not with indirect brutality through negligence and callous treatment in jail custody. Yet it is not known how many of the thousands of prisoners who die in our jails every year died due to neglect by the jai...
Methodological challenges in studying the chronically ill elderly:…
In low- and middle-income countries, caring for the elderly is a responsibility that is undertaken within households with minimal institutional support from the community or structural support from the state [1,2]. Usually, this responsibility is shared within the home, with the physical and emot...
ChatGPT: Impact of an artificial author on bibliometrics
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in medical science has been widely discussed and debated. Topol foresaw that AI, particularly deep learning, would be used in a variety of applications, with users ranging from specialty doctors to paramedics [1]. He discussed how deep neural networks (DNNs...
Rajasthan’s Right to Health Act, 2022: Gaps and…
On March 21, 2023, Rajasthan became the first state in the country to pass an Act implementing the right to health, titled “Rajasthan Right to Health Act, 2022” [1]. This is the realisation of a long standing demand of civil society groups and can be considered a landmark initiative by any state ...
Key ethical challenges in providing dialysis in low…
Maintenance dialysis is life-sustaining but poorly accessible in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). There are not enough functional dialysis centres in the public sector, and in the private sector dialysis is prohibitively expensive. This results in the need for (de facto) rationing of pub...
Police investigation and unethical “scientific interrogation”
Shraddha Walkar’s horrific murder has rekindled the urgent issue of domestic violence and violence against women in India [1]. With women’s bodies often becoming part of a larger ideological and political narrative, Walkar’s brutal murder was given a communal turn due to the interfaith nature of ...
COP27 Climate Change Conference: Urgent action needed for…
The 2022 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) paints a dark picture of the future of life on earth, characterised by ecosystem collapse, species extinction, and climate hazards such as heatwaves and floods [1]. These are all linked to physical and mental health problems,...
Infertility – an unfinished reproductive rights agenda in…
Twenty-five years after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) mandate in 1994, India has fallen far short of providing universal access to preventive and treatment services for infertility. This mandate was a call to “prioritize the reproductive health and rights of al...
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature…
The UN General Assembly in September 2021 will bring countries together at a critical time for marshalling collective action to tackle the global environmental crisis. They will meet again at the biodiversity summit in Kunming, China, and the climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow, UK. Ahead of th...
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