Monthly Archives: June 2026
Boy, 11, dies from rabies after bat landed on his face while he slept as doctors issue warning
An 11-year-old boy died after contracting rabies from a bat in a rare occurrence as health experts have issued warnings, calling the dire incident ‘a wake up call’. The fatal bite took place in Northern Ontario where the boy had been staying during the summer of 2024. The boy was peacefully sleeping when he suddenly […]
Cow-Derived Materials in Modern Medicine (“Grafts from Cow”)
Dr. Sanjay Maheshwari is a well-known cancer surgeon, urologist, and Medical Director of the MP Birla Group of Hospitals (including Priyamvada Birla Cancer Research aspects) in Satna, Madhya Pradesh. He has a strong reputation for surgical expertise, leadership in rural healthcare access, cancer care, and handling complex cases.0 Bovine (cow-derived) xenografts are established in mainstream […]
Guidelines for Organization and Delivery of Intensive Care Services
Directorate General of Health Services Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Government of India 2026 Abbreviations: ABG Arterial Blood Gas AMC Annual Maintenance Contract CAUTI Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection CLABSI Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection CT Computed Tomography DNB Diplomate of National Board DVT Deep Vein Thrombosis ECG Electrocardiography ECMO Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation EMR Emergency […]
bloodwork
I’m a cardiologist. After 40, stop guessing about your health. These numbers tell you whether you’re building a long, vibrant life — or quietly declining without knowing it. I run these on myself. I run them on every patient I care about. Most are cheap bloodwork. All are available now. And together, they paint a […]
How 100 hospitals switched to pen and paper to defeat a national cyber-attack
Skip to content null 2 days agoShareSave Add as preferred on Google Joe TidyCyber Correspondent, World Service, Romania One after another the calls came in from hospitals; criminals were infecting computer networks in a mass hack that was putting countless lives at risk. At Bucharest’s national cyber-security centre (DNSC) they watched helplessly as the hackers […]
The People’s Perspective on MedicineFrom Xyzal to Zyprexa: Weird Drug Names Proliferate
The People’s Perspective on MedicineFrom Xyzal to Zyprexa: Weird Drug Names ProliferateIn the prescription drug world many brand names are unspellable, unpronounceable, and incomprehensible. Why are weird drug names so popular? This article about weird drug names was written by Dennis Miller, R.Ph., a retired chain store pharmacist. His book, The Shocking Truth About Pharmacy: […]
A Heartfelt Tribute: The Enduring Grace of Mrs. Neena Neelam Bohra
Dr. Neena Bohra is a veteran psychiatrist, treating pateints from all walks of life for 45 years. She has been teaching post graduates since 1983 and has headed the psychiatry department at some of the leading government hospitals like RML in Delhi. Dr. Bohra has served as secretary, Central Mental Health Authority, Government Of India […]
Qing Li.
A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to […]
सफ़ेद कोट की जेब में रखी ज़िंदगी
सफ़ेद कोट की जेब में रखी ज़िंदगी मेडिकल कॉलेज के दिनों में लगता था, बस रेज़िडेंसी मिल जाए, तो ज़िंदगी मुकम्मल हो जाएगी। रेज़िडेंसी में लगा, एक विशेषज्ञ बन जाऊँ, तो शायद सुकून मिल जाए। फिर लगा, नाम हो, पहचान हो, मरीज़ों की लंबी कतार हो, सम्मेलनों के मंच हों, किताबों में मेरा नाम छपे, […]
Dr. Saryu Prakash Garg
Dr. Saryu Prakash Garg (also known as Dr. S.P. Garg or SP Garg) is the visionary founder and Managing Director of Bio-Med Private Limited, Ghaziabad — a pioneering Indian company established in 1972 that manufactures vaccines for both humans and animals. Early Life and Education Born on June 18, 1938, in Jewar, India, Saryu Prakash […]
Midjourney Scanner
Something just happened today that I genuinely did not see coming — and it could change the future of preventive medicine more than anything I’ve written about on this platform.Midjourney — the AI company that became famous for generating images from text prompts — just announced a medical hardware division and unveiled a working prototype […]
Dr Roop Sidana
Dr. Roop Sidana: A Life Dedicated to Healing Minds In the early 1980s, a young psychiatrist stepped off a bus in the dusty town of Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, carrying little more than a suitcase and a big dream. Mental health was barely spoken about in those days. People called it “paagalpan” (madness) and whispered about […]
The Process of Becoming a Doctor is Incomplete Without Compassion
Cadaver Comment Controversy: Medical education is not just the transfer of knowledge, it is also a rite of passage into responsibility. Recently, a comment made by a medical student about a cadaver has sparked controversy. One medical student said on a video that “cadavers have no feelings, they are just bodies.” Another student supported this […]
The Anti-Psychiatry Movements: From Radical Critique to Consumer/Survivor Advocacy and Platforms Like Mad in America
The anti-psychiatry movement, often traced to the 1960s but with deeper historical roots, represents a sustained challenge to the foundations, practices, and societal role of psychiatry. It questions the medical model of mental illness, the efficacy and ethics of treatments like psychiatric drugs and involuntary commitment, and the power dynamics between professionals and those labeled […]
Dr. Nandan Singh Bisht: The Steady Hand Guiding Dehradun’s Busiest Emergency Ward
Imagine the chaos of a typical night in a major government hospital emergency: sirens blaring, families in panic, stretchers rushing in with critical cases — heart attacks, accidents, severe infections. In the middle of it all stands a calm, experienced figure issuing clear instructions, checking ECGs, reassuring relatives, and ensuring no life slips through the […]
Champat Rai (born Champat Rai Bansal,
Champat Rai (born Champat Rai Bansal, 1946) is a prominent Indian leader associated with the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. He serves as the General Secretary of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, which oversees the construction and management of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. He is also an international […]
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, a gynecologic oncologist operating Poplar Avenue Clinic (a women’s health clinic and med spa) in Memphis, Tennessee, was convicted in January 2026 after a federal trial.0 A jury found him guilty on 40 of 46 counts: 18 counts of adulteration of medical devices, 16 counts of misbranding medical devices, and 6 counts […]
A Miraculous Second Chance: How a Surgical Error Nearly Claimed a 13-Year-Old Girl’s Life
In the summer of 2025, Steven and Lori Stokes faced every parent’s worst nightmare. Their 13-year-old daughter, a vibrant girl from southern Oregon who loved school, friends, and the simple joys of family life, needed heart surgery. What should have been a carefully executed procedure at a respected children’s hospital turned into a harrowing ordeal […]
The Surgeon’s Fatal Stitch: The Heartbreaking Case of Dr. Asif Shah and Sheila Hynes
In the sterile, high-stakes world of cardiac surgery, where every suture can mean the difference between life and extended years with family or irreversible tragedy, one mistake can shatter everything. At the renowned Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, a routine double heart valve replacement for a beloved great-grandmother named Sheila Mary Hynes ended […]
The Shadow of the Syringe: The Rise and Catastrophic Fall of Dr. Dipak Desai
The Shadow of the Syringe: The Rise and Catastrophic Fall of Dr. Dipak Desai In the sun-baked sprawl of Las Vegas, where dreams of fortune flicker like neon lights along the Strip, Dr. Dipak Desai built an empire on procedures that promised quick relief and faster profits. A gastroenterologist who immigrated from India, Desai rose […]
Inflammation
For decades, the entire field was built on one target: lower LDL cholesterol. Statins save lives — that’s settled science. But too many of my patients did everything right — took their statins, hit their numbers, lived clean — and still ended up on my table with a ruptured artery. We were treating the smoke […]
Modernization and practicality should come first—Indianization as a cultural bonus, not the main goal.
Modernization and practicality should come first—Indianization as a cultural bonus, not the main goal. Nurses’ uniforms need to prioritize function, comfort, hygiene, and safety in high-pressure environments over colonial aesthetics or symbolic decolonization. Kangana’s point about outdated British-era styling (caps, belts, stiff designs with military influences) has some merit as a conversation starter, especially tied […]
Chirag Panjwani
In the dusty lanes of Agra, where the Taj Mahal stood like a silent spectator to a million tourist questions, a boy named Chirag Panjwani was born in 1993. “Beta, Taj Mahal dekh ke kya feel hota hai?” strangers would ask him every summer. Little Chirag, barely tall enough to reach the window, would roll […]
Broken Windows Theory on violence against doctors
Yes, in an analogous way—unaddressed minor disorders or incidents of disrespect/impunity can normalize and escalate violence against doctors, much like the core idea of Broken Windows Theory. Quick Recap of Broken Windows Theory Proposed by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling in 1982, the theory argues that visible signs of minor disorder (e.g., a literal […]
Dr. Kabi Prasad Mishra (1938–2014): The Poet-Cardiologist Who Mended Hearts and Minds
Picture this: a sharp-eyed doctor in a white coat, stethoscope around his neck, peering at an ECG strip like it was ancient Sanskrit poetry. Suddenly, he’d break into a warm smile and quote Lord Jagannath or a line from Odia literature, turning a tense consultation into a heartfelt conversation. That was Dr. K.P. Mishra — […]
Golden rule
The dusty roads of Uttarakhand snaked through the foothills as the old Maruti Suzuki Swift rattled along, carrying four medical representatives on their weekly circuit. It was one of those crisp mornings in early October, post-Navratri, when the air still carried the faint scent of incense from distant temples and the roads were littered with […]
The Untold Story of Duckback: How Four Brothers Tamed the Monsoon
Imagine this: It’s the early 1910s. A young Bengali man, fresh from studying chemistry at Stanford and Berkeley, steps off the ship back home. His name is Surendra Mohan Bose. He could’ve easily landed a fat salary under the British Raj. Instead, he dives headfirst into the Swadeshi movement—boycotting foreign goods, dreaming of a self-reliant […]
IMA President-elect assaulted while rescuing colleagues as mob storms Udaipur hospital, violence sparks nationwide outrage from medical fraternity
Jaipur: The alleged brutal assault on the President-Elect of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Rajasthan chapter, and several other doctors at JP Orthopaedic Hospital in Udaipur has sparked uproar… — Read on medicaldialogues.in/news/health/doctors/ima-president-elect-assaulted-while-rescuing-colleagues-as-mob-storms-udaipur-hospital-violence-sparks-nationwide-outrage-from-medical-fraternity-172066
Buntanetap
Buntanetap (also known as Posiphen or ANVS-401; sometimes referred to informally as a “tab” or tablet/capsule) is an investigational oral small-molecule drug being developed by Annovis Bio for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD).10 What it is and how it works Current development status (as of mid-2026) It is not yet […]
deemagclinic
deemag and chest clinic 