This case presents the challenges faced in managing a premature infant with multiple unexplained neuromuscular symptoms. The discussion focuses on the ethical dilemmas surrounding the initiation of palliative care in the absence of a clear diagnosis. Key ethical qu...
Kay Redfield Jamison, an author, clinical psychologist, and professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, grapples with bipolar disorder — shaping her professional focus. She dealt with manic-depressive disorder as a professor of psychiatry and a succe...
There’s a weight we carry, unseen, unnamed,
A quiet ache, a heart untamed.
It lingers in the daylight’s glow,
A shadow that refuses to let go.
In this book, Saurav Kumar Rai explores the different dimensions of the revivalist movement in Ayurveda, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in the United Provinces (present-day Uttar Pradesh). He also examines the status of Ayurveda immediately followin...
Following the pharmacovigilance crises of 2004 involving the use of Vioxx and antidepressants in minors, medicine regulators turned to big data, also called real-world evidence, to support their efforts to establish the safety of treatment protocols. In many areas ...
The tridosha paradigm is foundational to Ayurveda. Ayurveda uses it to explain life processes, classify illness states, and facilitate therapeutic choices. The paradigm has an aspect that is heuristic and practical; it has another aspect that is purely speculative ...
From the late 1940s to 1991, the adverse effects of prescription drugs were primarily established through the publication of detailed case studies by doctors in medical journals. Subsequently, pharmaceutical companies would change the labels of medicines accordingl...
Background: Family planning programmes globally emphasise voluntarism and rights in contraceptive provision, shifting the focus away from fertility regulation. With the intent of measuring the policy-practice gap, this study aims to determine access to voluntary ri...
Primary care with indigenous communities, just as with any other community, needs compassionate perseverance in individual cases but also touches on a communitarian value- system that can truly give insights into the community’s self-determined idea of health and w...
An interventional neurologist recently responded to my two-year-old article suggesting that Ayurveda should be approached in a qualia-centric manner. He questions the fundamental assumptions of what he calls “Western” science yet tries to use the same to claim that...