Category: Letters
October 15, 2024
In 2023, as per the World Health Organization (WHO), India emerged as the country with the highest number of tuberculosis (TB) cases, reporting 2.8 million cases and contributing to 27% of the global TB burden [1]. Worldwide, there were 7.5 million newly diagnosed TB cases in 2022, marking the hi...
Prajna Anirvan
October 15, 2024
I read with great interest the editorial on the pharmaceutical company–healthcare relationship published in the April-June issue of this journal [1]. Clinical practice guidelines are increasingly used by physicians to guide treatment decisions, and the pharmaceutic...
Pathiyil Ravi Shankar
October 15, 2024
Telemedicine technology plays a crucial role in addressing healthcare challenges, particularly in countries like India, by mitigating physician shortages, reducing patient burden and costs, and aiding in disease prevention. The term telemedicine, meaning “healing at a distance,” was coined in 197...
Dipen Dabhi, Yatiraj Singi, Nirmal Nagar
July 17, 2024
We chanced upon a number of errors in a PubMed entry (PMID: 24727622) of the abstract of an article published in your journal a decade ago. This prompted us to think how PubMed entries are rectified and whether it may be important to publish an erratum in a forthco...
Natasha Das, Saurendra Das
July 17, 2024
In Afghanistan, maternal mortality and infant mortality — two key indicators of population health — are among the highest in the developing world, partly because of nearly a half-century of conflict and persistent socioeconomic instability [1]. The latest data in 2...
Muhammad Haroon Stanikzai
July 17, 2024
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), India, has released guidelines for intensive care unit (ICU) admission and discharge [1] to guide intensivists and registered medical practitioners (RMPs) in an Expert Consensus Statement (ECS). This is based on the recommendations of 24 experts ...
Hareesh Angothu, Krishna Prasad K M, Bhadrinarayan Varadarajan
July 17, 2024
Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) are a major cause of global mortality and morbidity. In India, Alcohol Use Disorder is among the most prevalent of these [1]. Inadequate knowledge about the illness and its treatment, lack of resources, and regressive government policies (criminalisation of drug us...
Sanjukta Ghosh, Ajinkya Kalia, Abhilasha Jogadand, Abhijit Ramdas Rozatkar, Tamonud Modak
April 21, 2024
As the world grapples with the constant threat of new pathogens, the role of government oversight in research and response efforts has become a topic of considerable debate in the academic community. In the recently released “SOP [standard operating procedure] for Nipah virus research in Kerala f...
Raman Swathy Vaman
April 21, 2024
Saviour babies or saviour siblings are conceived specifically to be sources of biological materials — ranging from cord blood, stem cells or even organs — to save another child, usually an older sibling, who is suffering from a disease like thalassemia that can be cured with this biological mater...
Salik Ansari, Harikeerthan Raghuram, Anant Bhan
October 09, 2023
Recently, the data quality of the National Sample Surveys (NSS) and the National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) has become the centre of discussion [1,2]. Two issues that have been raised include the overestimation of the rural population in these surveys and greater response rates in poorer wealth...
Siddhesh Zadey, Parth Sharma, Pushkar Nimkar
