PUBLISHED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO    A Review of Recent Literature Brian J. Miller, MD, PhD, MPH Dr Miller is Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, and the Schizophrenia & Psychosis Section Editor for Psychiatric Times. The author reports that he receives research funding from Augusta […]

7/5/2020 Inside Story, Sion Hospital-22 We have all been going through this pandemic, affecting the world in its brutal ways, and made us standstill. Disturbing for each one in different ways. Things are different in different parts of India. In Mumbai, it’s the side which you may not have seen and I wish you never […]

On this past International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I reread a bit of Bertrand Russell. In 1933, dismayed at the Nazification of Germany, the philosopher wrote “The Triumph of Stupidity,” attributing the rise of Adolf Hitler to the organized fervor of stupid and brutal people—two qualities, he noted, that “usually go together.” He went on to make one […]

Why are we so shocked? Isn’t this a mirror of our Society where Misogyny is normalised? Do you really think that just blaming those boys and feeling disgusted by their mindset is going to change anything? Does this incident make you question your own mindset, and that of your friends, brothers, boyfriends, husbands, sons, and […]

With fewer than two psychiatrists for every 100,000 people, experts are seeking innovative solutions to address the emergency Global development is supported by About this content Kiran Dhillon in West Bengal Fri 20 Dec 2019 06.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 14 Jan 2020 13.54 GMT Shares 106 [if IE 9]><video style=”display: none;”><![endif] [if IE 9]></video><![endif] O […]

 CLASSIFICATION OF THE CUTANEOUS MANIFESTATIONS OF COVID-19: A RAPID PROSPECTIVE NATIONWIDE CONSENSUS STUDY IN SPAIN WITH 375 CASES. Supplementary material: Photographic atlas . C. Galván Casas* , A. Català* , G. Carretero Hernández , P. Rodríguez-Jiménez, D. Fernández Nieto , A. Rodríguez-Villa Lario , I. Navarro Fernández , R. Ruiz-Villaverde , D. Falkenhain, M. […]

  As the world battles a global pandemic, healthcare and frontline workers have been pushed to the forefront to deal with more than just the disease– and often without proper protection. The new novel coronavirus doesn’t have a vaccine so far, and PPE and N95 masks are in short supply as nobody (not even the […]

It is a mystery that has left doctors questioning the basic tenets of biology: Covid-19 patients who are talking and apparently not in distress, but who have oxygen levels low enough to typically cause unconsciousness or even death. The phenomenon, known by some as “happy hypoxia” (some prefer the term “silent”) is raising questions about […]

Dear Friends, Corona Virus is here to stay for quite some time, and so we have to change our ways of Medical Practice, to keep ourselves , our families and our staff safe. Here are some important tips for safe practice , though every one can add or modify to some extent, depending upon his […]

 A strategy document from the Royal College of Anaesthetists, Association of Anaesthetists, Intensive Care Society and Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine Background As a logical and necessary part of the country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, elective surgery was suspended throughout the NHS to liberate staff and capacity for patients requiring hospital admission for […]

May 1st 2020 Dear madam, This is in response to your notice dated May 1st 2020, vide letter no. 52/DGHS/PH-IV/COVID- 19/2020/prsecyhfw/6363-6412. In response to the Notice served by Health and Family Welfare Department, New Delhi I wish to submit this letter as my response. You will be quite surprised to know that the answer to […]

The new england journal of medicine Correspondence Covid-19 Cases To rapidly communicate information on the global clinical effort against Covid-19, the Journal has initiated a series of case reports that offer important teaching points or novel findings. The case reports should be viewed as observations rather than as recommendations for evaluation or treatment. In the […]

Found this gem of a piece written by some anonymous soul in another group… WE ARE NOT IN THE SAME BOAT … I heard that we are in the same boat. But it’s not like that. We are in the same storm, but not in the same boat. Your ship can be shipwrecked and mine […]

Scarce N95 Masks Can Be Safely Disinfected With Steam By Linda Carroll April 24, 2020  ADD TO EMAIL ALERTS (Reuters Health) – As the number of COVID-19 cases explodes around the world and PPEs become increasingly scarce, the need to disinfect and reuse disposable N95 masks becomes an important option, according to Texas researchers […]

Famotidine & Covid-19   The coronavirus pandemic is believed to have originated in China’s Wuhan, and it’s in this town that a possible link between famotidine and Covid-19 survival was first noticed. Doctors who worked with coronavirus patients in Wuhan reportedly discovered that although one in five Covid-19 patients aged above 80 had died, many among […]

 LOCKDOWN GUIDELINES THE THREE ZONES RED ORANGE GREEN    SOURCE: MHA.GOV.IN           LOCKDOWN GUIDELINES RED ZONE Areas where the incidence of Covid-19 positive cases are highest THE RULES ARE THE STRICTEST IN THE RED ZONE DISTRICTS, AND PROGRESSIVELY GET EASIER IN THE ORANGE […]

1. The conundrum in these matters is to quash or not to quash the notification issued by the Central Government bearing No. S.O.2941(E) dated 18.11.2009, amending Notification No. S.O.1055(E) dated 19.10.2001 and thereby inserting Note 4 (four) Signature Not Verified Digitally signed by CHETAN KUMAR in the table at the end of Note 3 (three). […]

————————————————– The Israeli coronavirus drug reportedly with a 100% success rate even among severely ill patients is being tested in the United States for the first time. Pluristem Therapeutics Inc., a biotech company based in Haifa/Israel, reported that seven patients who were at a high risk of death due to respiratory failure, multi-system organ failure, […]

*कल की मीटिंग के बाद पढ़ा तो बहुत होगा लेकिन क्या करना है और कैसे करना है। उसके बारे में जानने के लिए कृपया यह पोस्ट पूरा पढ़े* 1.अस्पताल के ओ पी डी के पास बाहर की ओर एक स्क्रीनिंग कारनर बनाना है, जहां पर निम्नलिखित चीजें होनी चाहिए- एक रजिस्टर सैनिटाइजर गलबज़ N95 मास्क […]

Usa has topped confirmed cases of COVID-19, Donald Trump stood at the lectern of the White House press-briefing room and was asked what he’d say about the pandemic to a child. Amid a meandering answer, Trump remarked, “You can call it a germ, you can call it a flu, you can call it a virus. […]

The International Health Regulations (2005) are a legally binding instrument of international law that aims to a) assist countries to work together to save lives and livelihoods endangered by the international spread of diseases and other health risks and b) avoid unnecessary interference with international trade and travel. The purpose and scope of IHR 2005 […]

Dr Rajeev Jayadevan 29.4.20 Note: This document is not meant for the general public. It is created exclusively for healthcare workers and policy makers, to make the healthcare system a safer place for themselves, for patients and for the community. While adopting strategies to reduce COVID-related deaths among healthcare workers, it must be noted that […]

Now , it’s almost certain that lock down is going to be extended. Role of private Drs and Nursing homes continues to be in confusion. Clear cut policy and directions are clearly lacking. I haven’t been able to understand till now ….what’s my role. I should be doing my work as stated by government. Well […]

Well, I am a doctor who cleared MBBS in 1977 at Maulana Azad medical college, Delhi and have had a pretty long professional carrier. These are my views about the state we are in nowadays. There are two scenarios which may confront a doctor today in the days of Corona epidemic. The first I don’t […]

Thanks to 50 autopsies carried out on patients who died from COVID-19, they found that it is NOT PNEUMONIA, strictly speaking, because the virus does not kill pneumocytes of its type only but uses an inflammatory storm to create an endothelial vascular thrombosis, with the corresponding diffuse thrombosis the lung is the most affected because […]

Background The world is facing an unprecedented threat from the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus (referred to as the COVID-19 virus). Many countries are following the advice from the World Health Organization (WHO) regarding the introduction of physical distancing measures as one of the ways in which transmission of the disease can be […]

Gouri Passi There are certain striking common threads in each outbreak, with the most deadly ones being zoonotic. Over the last century, scientists have been quietly acknowledging increasing outbreaks of novel infectious diseases at regular intervals. Sixty per cent of these emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic and strikingly 71.8% originate in wildlife. A careful analysis […]

Posted by SHISHIRDR on APRIL 26, 2020 “The war has begun, the bodybags have started pouring in but I see none of them wrapped in the tricolour, no one honouring them with 21 gun salute.” A war is won not by the political and bureaucartic hail of befuddiment but by the corage and valour of […]

Government of West Bengal Department of Health and Family Welfare Directorate of Health Services Wing- A, 4th Floor, Swasthya Bhavan GN 29, Sector- V, Salt Lake, Kolkata- 700091 Memo No: HPH/9M-21/2020/95 To, The MSVP, Medical College and Hospital (All) The Chief Medical Officer of Health (All) West Bengal Sub: Guidelines for reuse of PPE & […]

The first volunteer who availed herself in Oxford for a jab in the first Europe human trial of a vaccine to protect against the coronavirus pandemic is all well and good. 

Ever thought of that? Whole house will be sealed. Your wife children and parents too will be taken to Isolation ward. You may not ever meet some or all of them again. They may die or you may die. Situation is still tougher if you are only husband wife living with kids abroad/ away. Case […]

In the 1920s, a rich man in India put his son on board a ship from Bombay to the United Kingdom in order to acquire a law degree and become a barrister, as was fashionable among all privileged families in the country at the time. The boy, however, did not want to be a lawyer; […]

The lockdown had begun.That meant shutting down the clinic and one visit a day to the hospital to see a few admitted patients.Like all interested clinicians,I was reading every word printed on Corona.The news channels were full of just one news :The epidemic.Everyday the news of people falling like nine pins were pouring in from […]

  Claim Format by the requisitioned Private Hospitals, functioning as COVID Hospitals 2020   1. Name of the COVID Hospital  :    2. Address of the Hospital : District: PIN: 3. Contact of the Hospital  :  Land/Mobile : Email ID: 4. Date of requisition as COVID Hospital  […]

                               Based on ICD International Statistical Classification of Diseases (16 April 2020) WHO/HQ/DDI/DNA/CAT Table of Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A- B- C- D- […]

By Tim Cook, Emira Kursumovic, Simon Lennane22 April 2020 Sai The deaths of 119 NHS staff have been analysed by three leading clinicians. We present their findings here. Coronavirus disease 19 — or covid-19 — is a pandemic illness currently causing the deaths of thousands of patients across the globe. In recent weeks, there has […]

           ISHRAE COVID-19 Guidance Document for Air Conditioning and Ventilation   How to operate air conditioning and ventilation systems to control spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Residences, Workspaces and Healthcare Facilities.    Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating & Air Conditioning Engineers […]

 WELCOME: Webinar hosted by HORIBA – We will start in a while… @ 2020 Samoszuk Consulting. All rights reserved.   Pathophysiology & Pathogenesis Cytokine Storm & Pathological Changes Biomarkers & Clinical Correlations    @ 2020 Samoszuk Consulting. All rights reserved. Protocols & Clinical Trails @ 2020 Samoszuk Consulting. All rights reserved. […]

‘Closing borders is ridiculous’: the epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavirus strategy Anders Tegnell talks to Nature about the nation’s ‘trust-based’ approach to tackling the pandemic. Marta Paterlini ?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″ standalone=”no”? Share on Twitter Share on Twitter ?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″ standalone=”no”? Share on Facebook Share on Facebook ?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″ standalone=”no”? Share via E-Mail Share […]

   A Manual for Parents and Caregivers    FOREWORD As COVID-19 pandemic continues to expand in India and in the world, only one thing is certain: the current outbreak will have profound impact not only in the health and economic situation, but also on the psychosocial well-being of societies across nations. […]

One of Australia’s most eminent vaccine developers says there may never be a vaccine against COVID-19 for some very good reasons. Professor Ian Frazer, the immunologist who co-invented the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine which prevents cervical cancer, said a coronavirus vaccine was “tricky”. He told news.com.au that although 100 different teams around the world […]

PPE Ok some basic rules while getting PPE especially the coveralls 👇 1.Look for SITRA certification. 2. Material should be non woven polypropylene. The polypropylene itself should be at least two-ply, preferably 3 or 4 ply. The ‘Ply ‘ is a layer of either spunbound (S) or meltblown (M) polypropylene. Two ply will be SM. […]

Dr Sundeep S Salvi MD, DNB, PhD (UK), FCCP (US), FICS, Hon FRCP (Lon) Director, Pulmocare Research and Education (PURE) Foundation, Pune, INDIA Email ID: sundeepsalvi@gmail.com Tel No: +91 9921211000  The Corona virus disease-19 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS- Cov-2) that spreads via aerosol and […]

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