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July 01, 2000
Clinical trials of the quinacrine nonsurgical sterilisation (QS) method raise a number of troubling ethical issues. This update on the quinacrine saga will present some of these dilemmas for discussion.
April 01, 2000
This essay will discuss the ethics of medical fees charged by doctors in their individual capacities, for services rendered to patients. There is no rational basis for current practices in fee charging. There are no laws or norms in this regard. Also, what is and is not ethical varies with circum...
April 01, 2000
Scientific research to control women's fertility by causing immune reactions has been continuing for almost three decades all over the world. This search for 'suitable targets within the body' has been extremely controversial, with women's groups and health activists globally opposing the 'vaccin...
January 01, 2000
Women's groups in India have grappled with ethics in medical research since the early '80s when blatant ethical violations during clinical trials came to light. From injectable contraceptives being tested on women unaware that they were part of a trial; inadequate follow-up and downplaying side-e...
January 01, 2000
A search of the literature and of Internet materials provides little on this topic. This is because histopathologists spend most of their professional lives beyond the public's view, in laboratories and libraries. However, disillusionment with the medical profession is combined with a growing tre...
January 01, 2000
Here's a recipe to promote an IVF clinic: Buy a new piece of equipment, use it and then claim to achieve "the first pregnancy in South Asia" using this equipment. Nine months later, claim another 'first' when the baby is born -to get your name in the newspaper twice for the same procedure.
January 01, 2000
There is an ongoing global debate on improving access to essential drugs for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWA). Treatment activists need objective and factual information on the relevant aspects of HIV/AIDS drugs to enable them to fully participate in the debate, organise campaigns to increase a...
October 01, 1999
The Sunday newspaper has a full page feature on 'Dil ka doctor and his state-of-the-heart plans'. The box, "Our panel of doctors", informs readers of the top 10 cardiologists in five metropolitan cities. The 'special report' on the 'techniques which will tame our pagal dil" presents the cafeteria...
October 01, 1999
ML Kothari et al have highlighted some important facts about heart disease and its treatment. Despite the constant advances in medical science, there are many lacunae in our knowledge of this condition. High technology methods of diagnosis and treatment have not solved questions related to the ca...
October 01, 1999
The young doctor was posted in the cardiac catheterisation laboratory soon after joining a cardiology fellowship. One day, while looking at a coronary angiography film, he asked done of his seniors, "What should be done for such a lesion?" The senior smiled and replied, "We should treat the patie...