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November 01, 2023
With the proliferation of pharmaceuticals and advances in innovative medical technologies, use of animal-derived products is widespread in the healthcare industry. The use of these products sometimes conflicts with the religious beliefs of patients. I was involved in an ethical dilemma during reo...
October 26, 2023
Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This overall environmental crisis is now so sev...
October 20, 2023
In response to the continuing high prevalence of anaemia recorded in the National Family Health Survey-5, the Indian government launched a policy for mandatory iron fortification of the rice provided through public nutrition programmes in India. This was done even though a rigorous evidence analy...
October 17, 2023
Ronald M Green and George A Little, editors. Religion and Ethics in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Oxford University Press, $95 (Hardcover), 280 pgs, 2019. ISBN: 9780190636852.
October 14, 2023
This paper focuses on the ethical tensions seen in health systems research by researchers owing to their scientific obligations to their research, ethical obligations to study participants, and social obligations to the community. Health systems research differs from other public health research ...
October 12, 2013
Hans Siepel. Voices of the Soul: The Forgotten Truth about Dementia. Soesterberg: Aspekt Publishers, 2022. 194 pages (Paperback). ISBN: 9789464626896. German edition. Hanau: AMRA Verlag, 2013. €16.95 (hardcover). Dutch edition. Leeuwarden: Elikser, 2016. (currently not available).
September 13, 2023
Chadhi Nabhan, Toxic Exposure: The True Story behind the Monsanto Trials and the Search for Justice, Johns Hopkins University Press, February 2023, 328 pgs. $ 29.95 (hardcover), ISBN-13:9781421445359,
July 14, 2023
Aruna Gopakumar, Yashodhara Lal, And How Do You Feel About That? Breakdowns and Breakthroughs in the Therapy Room, Penguin, December 2022, 376 pages, Rs 243 (Paperback) and Rs 230.85 (Kindle), ISBN-10: 014345742X, ISBN-13: 978-0143457428.
October 09, 2023
Background: The sensitivity and skill of care providers, especially physicians, while communicating bad news to patients can improve patients' acceptance of treatment and their emotional adjustment. We aimed to determine how to break bad news to cancer patients and consider their preferences i...
June 14, 2023
Giovanni A Fava, Discontinuing Antidepressant Medications, Oxford University Press, January 2022, 192 pages, $38.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9780192896643