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July 01, 2000
Recent times have seen a great spurt in the growth of privately, owned hospitals (including private trusts) in our city. Most of these start with noble ideas of providing advanced medical treatment to our citizens. Some even have collaborations with major hospitals of global fame. After a few yea...
July 01, 2000
Two and a half years ago, we put out a press release jointly signed by health professionals and voluntary organisations, excerpts of which are reproduced below:
July 01, 2000
I am an American social worker seeking information on the ethics of routine medical circumcision. I find lots of medical arguments for and against the practice, but almost nothing on its ethics.
February 24, 2014
It is learnt that the central government is about to include Hepatitis B vaccination in the Expanded Programme of Imunisation. The Expenditure Finance Committee has recommended an allotment of Rs. 2,825 crore during the Ninth Plan for this purpose. This decision involves an annual expenditure of ...
April 01, 2000
I feel bad that the journal, which is perhaps the only representative of any remnants of ethical core of health care in India, is floundering due to problems with funds.
April 01, 2000
The government of India has banned certain combinations of medicines as being non- rational and one among them is a fixed-dose combination of dextropropoxyphene with any other drug other than anti-spasmodics and/or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
April 01, 2000
With regard to Professor Sanjay Mehendale's valuable article on 'Ethical considerations in AIDS vaccine trials', could I make afew critical comments? In preventive HIV vaccine trials, any participant who gets infected as a consequence of his or her participation in such a trial deserves the best ...
April 01, 2000
I have been following, for some years now, with great interest, and some amusement, the beliefs of Kothari et al in their crusade against oncologists. Let me state right now, that I enjoy reading their theories - but take them with the proverbial pinch of salt. I refer specifically in this letter...