Daily Archives: 27/08/2025

Linaclotide

Linaclotide, sold under the brand name Linzess in the US and Mexico (and Constella elsewhere), is a prescription medication primarily used to treat irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C), chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC), and functional constipation in pediatric patients aged 6-17 years. 9 It is an orally administered oligopeptide that acts locally in the gastrointestinal […]

Dr. Pritam Kaur

The Soft Skills of the 21st Century Physician-Cardiologist

Chapter GC Khilnani, Suman BanerjeeIntrOductIOnMedicine as a discipline has always faced a complex epistemological order and structure. Since the time of Hippocrates, where the first seeds of a rational discipline were planted, there has been an effort to reconcile its electively scientific nature with the “humanistic” dimension of caring for patients. This imposes a constant […]