Category: Research Articles
April 26, 2024
The primary objective of any research, regardless of its domain such as health, technology, psychology, or any other subject, is to enhance the overall well-being of individuals. Rigorous processes are involved in conducting research ethically and in communicating its outcomes to society. However...
Shubhada Nagarkar
April 25, 2024
This reflective piece deals with the challenges of healthcare delivery in a resource-constrained setting. The narrative is set in an emergency room and the story follows a doctor's desperate efforts to save a young girl suffering from disseminated tuberculosis, whose condition is exacerbated by e...
Prajna Anirvan
April 12, 2024
Nancy Olivieri is a senior haematologist and professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. In the early 1990s, she was conducting investigator-initiated research of an experimental drug, deferiprone, in children with thalassaemia, for which a pharmaceutical company, Apotex, started giving some ...
Sandhya Srinivasan
March 29, 2024
This is a personal account of medical practices and healthcare behind bars, which draws on direct experiences and narrations from fellow prisoners, accumulated during eleven years in custody. It touches on issues of the relationship of medical professionals with the torture of detenus, the anarch...
Vernon Gonsalves
April 21, 2024
Background: Given the imperative for dental practitioners to be familiar with the existing ethical principles and laws governing their practice, this study aimed to evaluate awareness and practice of the dentists (code of ethics) regulations 2014 and consumer prote...
Gautami S Penmetsa, Gadde Praveen, M V Ramesh, Korukonda Radha Rani
April 21, 2024
Background: Care provision received renewed attention during the Covid-19 pandemic as several healthcare providers vied for the coveted title of “frontline warrior” while they struggled to provide care efficiently under varying health system constraints. While several...
Arima Mishra, Sanjana Santosh
March 08, 2024
The mental health discourse in India has been primarily viewed through a biomedical lens that often overlooks the cultural context and social inequalities. To ensure equitable access to preventive, promotive, curative, and rehabilitative mental healthcare, India needs practitioners who combine a ...
Mukta Gundi, Seema Sharma
April 21, 2024
Background: The Covid-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented impact on many sectors globally including research. We assessed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the research portfolio, and on the approval turnaround time for research protocols subm...
Enock Kipchirchir Kebenei, Daisy Cheruiyot, Gideon Cornel Msee, James Nguya, Timothy K Kiplagat, Elizabeth A Bukusi
April 21, 2024
Background: Transgender individuals seeking gender-affirming surgeries (GAS) are often denied or delayed by mental health professionals (MHPs). Studies on the gatekeeping of GAS have been mainly conducted in the Global North and primarily focus on the perspectives of health professionals. This...
Harikeerthan Raghuram
February 07, 2024
Maya John, Christa Wichterich, editors, Who Cares? Care extraction and the struggles of Indian health workers, Zubaan Academic, New Delhi, 330 pgs, Rs. 895, ISBN: 978 93 90514 03 8 (paperback)
Vijayaprasad Gopichandran
