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 ...
In the one year that I spent in Israel as a student of public health from October 2023 to September 2024, I was stunned and disappointed by the ignorance and inaction of the academic institutions towards a state-sponsored genocide as the violence in Gaza escalated ...
This case study involves a successful medical aspirant with 88% mobility disability who was denied admission by the Disability Assessment Board (DAB). After failing to get relief from the High Court, the candidate challenged the decision in the Supreme Court. The C...
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 ...
Amrita Bagchi, Healthcare in Post-Independence India: Kolkata and the Crisis of Private Healthcare Services. Routledge, London, 2023. Pages 201. ISBN 978-0-367-732-7; DOI: 10.4324/9781003169475
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...