Daily Archives: 15/05/2020
Advisory for managing Health care workers working in COVID and Non-COVID areas of the hospital
1. Background Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Directorate General of Health Services (EMR Division) The health care personnel working in hospitals are at increased risk of acquiring the COVID-19 disease, if there is a breach in the personal protection while managing patients. The health-work force is a valuable and scarce resource. Large number of […]
Suspend All Doctors, Cancel Their Registrations…
Rajasdeshpande RajasDeshpande 1 week ago  © Dr. Rajas Deshpande Have you ever spoken with a doctor, a judge, a police, minister or an an IAS officer in their office? Almost every common man has had almost a similar experience: an arrogant air of authority, hidden hints of superiority and a subtle dose of “I […]
COVID-19 deaths compared with “Swine Flu”
April 9, 2020 The age affected structure doesn’t fit with pandemic theory Carl Heneghan, Tom Jefferson “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes Pandemic, as the definition goes, is […]
Depression
      Rakesh Jain, MD, MPH Clinical Professor Department of Psychiatry Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine Midland, Texas Recent Evidence for Treatment Augmentation With Second-Generation Antipsychotics in Major Depressive Disorder Supported by an educational grant from Otsuka and Lundbeck Alliance  ●Please feel free […]
Tele medicine
 रजज री स.ं डी.एल.-33004/99 REGD. NO. D. L.-33004/99 स.ं 174] No. 174] ऄसाधारण EXTRAORDINARY भाग III—ख ड 4 PART III—Section 4 ाजधकार से काजित PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY नइ दद ली, बहृ पजतिार, मइ 14, 2020/ििै ाख 24, 1942 NEW DELHI, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2020/VAISAKHA 24, 1942 भारतीय अय ु ि ान पररषद् के ऄजध […]
Accelerated Article Preview Infection of dogs with SARS-CoV-2
       https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2334-5    Received: 12 March 2020 Accepted: 6 May 2020 Accelerated Article Preview Published online 14 May 2020 Cite this article as: Sit, T. H.C. et al. Infection of dogs with SARS-CoV-2. Nature https://doi. org/10.1038/s41586-020-2334-5 (2020). Thomas H. C. Sit, Christopher J. Brackman, Sin Ming Ip, […]
Droplet corona
Dr. Joseph Fair, a virologist and epidemiologist who has been hospitalized with the coronavirus despite being in good health and taking precautions, said Thursday that he believes he contracted the virus through his eyes on a crowded flight. Fair, 42, an NBC News contributor who has responded to multiple outbreaks around the world, got sick […]
A place beyond words
I didn’t know the lingo then, but my grandmother was already deep into a process scientists call retrogenesis, a cognitive return to birth. Shameful to admit: in my naïve and selfish twelve-year-old eyes, this could sometimes feel like a positive development. Nana cackled gleefully at my juvenile jokes, spent hours watching me play video games, and […]
CoronaVirus, Plague – Perspective is Everything!!
by Bindu Krishnan I saw this post that my dear friend Anu had shared on her FB timeline and I immediately wanted to share it with all my blog readers because this is just what we need – a different perspective !!. For the past 60 odd days, the world is locked down to varying […]