BAD MEDICINE DANIELA DRAKE 04.14.14 5:45 AM ET 133117414DR027_HEALTH_WORKE DAVID RAMOS/GETTY By the end of this year, it’s estimated that 300 physicians will commit suicide. While depression amongst physicians is not new—a few years back, it was named the second-most suicidal occupation—the level of sheer unhappiness amongst physicians is on the rise. Simply put, being […]

Teaching Hospitals Cost More, but Could Save Your Life 72 JUNE 5, 2017 Austin Frakt Austin Frakt THE NEW HEALTH CARE Perhaps not evident to many patients, there are two kinds of hospitals — teaching and nonteaching — and a raging debate about which is better. Teaching hospitals, affiliated with medical schools, are the training […]

ADD ANOTHER HIGH-PROFILE departure to the list of people leaving Verily, the Google-spawned health science company: Thomas Insel, a neuroscientist and former head of the National Institutes of Mental Health who was leading Verily’s mental health initiatives. After barely a year and a half, Insel is joining a startup called Mindstrong, aiming to come up […]

NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSIONNEW DELHI   REVISION PETITION NO. 2425 OF 2016   (Against the Order dated 20/05/2016 in Appeal No. 498/2015 of the State Commission Chhattisgarh) 1. JAIRAM SAHU S/O. LATE SAMARU SAHU, R/O. RADHIKA NAGAR, BHILAI, TEHSIL AND DISTRICT-DURG, CHHATTISGARH ………..Petitioner(s) Versus   1. CHANDULAL CHANDRAKAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL & ANR. THROUGH DIRECTOR, […]

The Union Cabinet Minister of Women Welfare & Child Development has asked the Union Health Ministry to make it mandatory for hospitals to display the number of caesarian deliveries being conducted with a perceived idea in public that Obstetricians perform caesarian sections unnecessarily as they don’t have enough time to monitor a pregnant woman during […]

EndocrinologyWritten by Christian NordqvistLast updated: Thu 14 Apr 2016A pheromone is a chemical an animal produces which changes the behavior of another animal of the same species (animals include insects). Some describe pheromones as behavior-altering agents. Many people do not know that pheromones trigger other behaviors in the animal of the same species, apart from […]

No doctor goes to work anticipating that something violent is going happen to them. But sometimes, tragedy strikes when we least expect it. For doctors, dealing with a violent situation is not something that happens on a daily basis; however when it does happen, it is important to be prepared on how to face the […]

Stop Violence Against Doctors India India 707 Supporters The Recent spurt of attacks on Doctors and on hospitals and clinics is alarming. If people start taking the law into their own hands and mobs start administering justice as they deem fit then it is a sorry state for a country like India. It means anarchy […]

Paurush Ambesh. Author links open the author workspace.Opens the author workspace Department of Internal Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, New York City 11219, USA Show more https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2016.07.023 Get rights and content Open Access funded by Cardiological Society of India Under a Creative Commons licenseopen access Abstract Incidents of violence against doctors in the Indian subcontinent have […]

Shukun Yao, Qing Zeng, […], and Jiangjun Wang Additional article information Abstract The incidence of patient-doctor disputes are alarmingly increasing in China, this article reviews the current status and causes of violence against medical workers in China, six strategies to tackle the daily worrying problems have been proposed and hopefully could improve the medical working […]

“Allow us to treat you without fear. Allow us to save lives without fear of losing ours.” — Dr Pillai Vishnu Violence against doctors has reached such an extreme in India that the medical staff is afraid to come to work and they need a police presence in the hospitals where they work. More than […]

*Mind,Moods and Magic Dr Harish Shetty:* *4 JUN* *DR YESHWANT AMDEKAR* [Dr Yeshwant Amdekar a Pediatrician and a legend in the field of Medicine spoke on the ‘evolution of medical practice’ at the INDIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Margao Branch Goa yesterday. The talk that will be soon on the ‘You tube’ was Wisdom Personified. Drawing on […]

Doctors are not a sociable lot. They have one or two close friends, and they’re usually other doctors. They’re cut off from the non-physician world. The only feedback they get is from other doctors who think like them. Doctors do not travel out of their cities to attend weddings of their close friend’s son or […]

The most recent spring semester Benjamin Rush Institute (BRI) lectures at Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine (MUCOM) focused philosophically on a doctor’s vocation. In Dr. Jason Eberl’s lecture, “The Hippocratic Oath: Still Ethically Valid?” attendees learned about the implications of taking an oath, and then applied those implications to the Hippocratic Oath, and other […]

By JOSH KATZ JUNE 5, 2017 New data compiled from hundreds of health agencies reveals the extent of the drug overdose epidemic last year. AKRON, Ohio — Drug overdose deaths in 2016 most likely exceeded 59,000, the largest annual jump ever recorded in the United States, according to preliminary data compiled by The New York […]

To, Prime Minister of India/ Health Minister of India/ Dr. Jitendra Singh, State Minister PMO/ Others Respected Sir, Greetings from Indian Medical Association! IMA is a representative of collective consciousness of over 3 lakh doctors spread over 30 State branches and 1700 Local branches and is present in almost every district of the country. It […]

Lieber Research Group, Harvard University GORY DETAILS A Blog by Erika Engelhaupt Injecting Electronics Into Brain Not as Freaky as it Sounds  POSTED MON, 06/8/2015 No need to wait for the cyborg future—it’s already here. Adding to a growing list of electronics that can be implanted in the body, scientists are working to perfect the ultimate […]

AUTHOR: MEGAN MOLTENI. MEGAN MOLTENI SCIENCE DATE OF PUBLICATION: 04.20.17. 04.20.17  TIME OF PUBLICATION: 7:00 AM. 7:00 AM The HiSeq 4000ILLUMINA WHEN BIOLOGIST RAHUL Sinha started his first independent research project at Stanford last January, he had a single-minded goal. He had just completed his post-doc in the lab of Irv Weissman, the Stanford biologist […]

MotherJones Ryan Rogers was a 28-year-old alcoholic who entered a posh rehab facility to stop drinking; 17 days later he was dead. JOHN HILL MAY/JUNE 2015 ISSUE Illustration: Max-O-Matic On December 30, 2012, as part of a series called Drugged, the National Geographic Channel aired an hourlong documentary about a 28-year-old named Ryan Rogers. It […]

       Alcohol isn’t just a mind-altering drink: It has been a prime mover of human culture from the beginning, fueling the development of arts, language, and religion.FOOD + DRINKANDREW CURRY, BRIAN FINKE | POSTED ON: MARCH 1, 2017 Share this on WhatsApp   Beer and other alcoholic beverages are “important to human culture” […]

  Straight from the heart series   Attention all Senior Colleagues; Past presidents, Association Presidents, Medical Leaders, National Awardees, Teachers, Administrators and Mentors  We need your blessings and support in fighting the cause of medical profession Dear Colleague   The medical profession is facing the toughest timer of the era. Now and then we are […]

From the desk of Dr KK Aggarwal, National President, IMA Dear Colleague IMA delegation met West Bengal, CM, Mamata Banerjee today. Delegation members 1. Dr KK Aggarwal, National President 2. Dr R N Tandon HSG 3. Dr V K Monga HFS 4. Dr Marthanda Pillai Past president 5. Dr Shantenu Sen State Secretary 6. Dr […]

Not to be confused with Quantum cognition. The quantum mind or quantum consciousness[1] group of hypotheses propose that classical mechanics cannot explain consciousness. It posits that quantum mechanical phenomena, such as quantum entanglement and superposition, may play an important part in the brain’s function and could form the basis of an explanation of consciousness. History […]

A brain–computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a mind-machine interface (MMI), direct neural interface (DNI), or brain–machine interface (BMI), is a direct communication pathway between an enhanced or wired brain and an external device. BCIs are often directed at researching, mapping, assisting, augmenting, or repairing human cognitive or sensory-motor functions.[1] Research on BCIs began in the […]

Computational neuroscience (also theoretical neuroscience) studies brain function in terms of the information processing properties of the structures that make up the nervous system.[1] It is an interdisciplinary computational science that links the diverse fields of neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology with electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics, and physics. Computational neuroscience is distinct from psychological […]

 . If everything is biologically determined genes must be controlling your action. If so doesn’t the old saying in Geeta rings true that man is not the master of his destiny but does according to the wishes of the supreme. ‘Sabmaya ka Kher hai’.And genes being biological phenomena can be considered to be controlled by […]

5/25/2017 George Bakris, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago School of Medicine A recent article by Moore, et al in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology reported results of a 16-yr longitudinal study of > 2600 normotensive patients in the Framingham Offspring Study (1). Patients were followed to evaluate […]

Beautiful message explaining how Happiness is a State of Mind. All of us should try to develop such attitude  A man of 92 years, short, very well-presented, who takes great care in his appearance, is moving into an old people’s home today. After waiting several hours in the retirement home lobby, he gently smiles as […]

“4 days delay in taking remedial steps proved to be harmful to the patient and it jointly costed Rs. 12 lakhs to the Gynaec, Anesthetist and the Hospital ” Case Details : DR. SUTAPA DASGUPT & ANR, KOLKATA V/s. TAPAN KAR & ANR. REVISION PETITION NO. 315 OF 2016, decided on 18 May 2017 /GetJudgement.do?P%2F315%2F2016&dtofhearing=2017-05-18 […]

Anti drug lobby is a conglomerate of multiple lobbies working to discredit and undermine drugs in psychiatry field.The notable members are 1) psychology lobby – thinks drugs have encroached and destroyed their sanctuary of mind. The most prominent but not most influential lobby 2) neutraceutical lobby – most economically powerful lobby, more than even pharmaceutical […]

 OCT 2 My Baby has ROP!!!! June 3rd 2006 – Ishaan was born. It was a great moment in my family. After many years of treatment and prayers, Neethu and I were proud parents. But he was born in less than seven months of pregnancy – 27 weeks of gestation as neonatologists describe it. Ishaan […]

D-dimer (or D dimer) is a fibrin degradation product (or FDP), a small protein fragment present in the blood after a blood clot is degraded by fibrinolysis. It is so named because it contains two D fragments of the fibrin protein joined by a cross-link.[1] D-dimer concentration may be determined by a blood test to […]

“The Hospital was saddled with Rs. 24,56,000 as it conducted the Neurosurgery in absence of facility of CT Scan/ NCCT, but the Doctors were absolved” – Delhi State Commission. http://cms.nic.in/ncdrcusersWeb/GetJudgement.do?method=GetJudgement&caseidin=8%2F0%2FCC%2F161%2F2003&dtofhearing=2017-04-18 B.R. Saini & ors. V/s. Lions Hospital & Research Centre & ors. Complaint No. 161/2003, decided on 18/04/2017. Facts in short : 1. The deceased […]

From the desk of Dr KK Aggarwal National President, IMA   Enough is Enough: Dilli Chalo “6th June” No compromise on the following 1.  Implementation on Inter- ministerial committee meeting report in six weeks 2.   Stringent Central Act against violence on medical professionals 3.   Single window accountability with no criminal charges on doctors without intent to harm a patient […]

Straight from the heart:The plight of the medical profession today  Dr KK Aggarwal National President IMA & HCFI   IMA is the voice and represents the collective consciousness of the medical profession in the country. It practically covers all the doctors in India directly through its membership of 3 lakhs, spread over 30 States and […]

Omair Ahmad http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/talk/physician-heal-thyself/article9707122.ece Patients are not broken toys that need mending. They are humans, in need of compassion as much as the skills of a good doctor I accompanied my mother to an eye clinic a couple of weeks ago. One of her cousins — a doctor — had recommended it. With a century-old history, […]

Nice to hear so many comments in support of Doctors. I am doctor too and posted this question just to see reaction of general p… MoreOm Lakhani Om Lakhani, Strong supporter of Doctors’ rights Answered Sun The author of this question has asked this question satirically to start a debate on this topic. I ‘respect’ […]

Catatonia, described in 1874 by K. L. Kahlbaum, is a distinct and heterogeneous neuropsychiatric syndrome, with both motoric and behavioral signs. It may be hypokinetic, hyperkinetic, or mixed and includes volitional signs, such as mutism, negativism, and automatic obedience. It was formerly relegated to a schizophrenia subtype, or considered extinct after the advent of modern […]

A variety of medical conditions can produce stupor, which is a decreased awareness and interaction with the external environment. Stupor can occur with preserved alertness, more often seen in catatonia, or with lethargy, more often seen in delirium. Differences between etiologies (psychiatric vs medical) do not appear to alter the general treatment approach for catatonia. […]

A shocking news came in recently for some doctors when the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) barred 21 doctors across the state from exhibiting their PG degrees obtained from a so-called American university. The council has further termed such courses to be ‘questionable’. The administrative body purported that the institute has been charging lakhs to grant […]

it is laudable that medical council of india has now recognised foreign qualifications like m.r.c p.; f.r.c.s. etc, which, hitherto, had the dubious distinction of not being valued in india. A postgraduate doctor with degrees like m.r.c.p.england is now eligible to seek an appointment as a teaching faculty in any indian medical college. similarly i […]

Elon Musk launches Neuralink, by Nick Statt@nickstatt Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is backing a brain-computer interface venture called Neuralink, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company, which is still in the earliest stages of existence and has no public presence whatsoever, is centered on creating devices […]