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‘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. […]

MEDICO DEATHS due to COVID19 – 107 doctors, 30 nurses in Italy 49 doctors 20 staff in USA 40 doctors, 28 staff in Iran 24 doctors in Indonesia 21 doctors in Phillipines 18 Doctors, 10 staff in China 10 doctors, 9 nurses/staff in UK 8 doctors and staff in Mauritius 6 Doctors in India(1 ayurvedic) […]

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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Bindu Shajan Perappadan April 18 2020 Mental well-being is the key to fight the disease, says Venkat Raghav; The COVID-19 fever doesn’t kill you but the guilt can, says Rohit Dutta. The high fever, mind numbing tiredness and the constant positive mental/emotional enforcement from the medical staff — that is what most COVID-19 survivors, across […]

White House press briefing on Friday, Peter Alexander, a correspondent for NBC News, asked President Trump about the psychological toll of the covid-19 crisis: “Nearly two hundred dead, fourteen thousand who are sick, millions, as you witnessed, who are scared,” Alexander said. “What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who […]

By Lisa Sanders, M.d. Dec. 17, 2006 A lonely old man sits at home one Christmas Eve and has a series of unexpected visitors: the restless spirit of his long-dead business partner, followed by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. By morning, this wretched, miserly recluse has been transformed into the season’s icon […]

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Mahabharata. Photo: Shutterstock The epic Mahabharata is full of pointers to issues of psychiatric dimensions and offers many answers, says national president of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) K K Aggarwal who considers Lord Krishna as the most celebrated counsellor. He says Krishna, in the true sense, was the first and perhaps the most celebrated […]

Indian Journal of Psychiatry Wolters Kluwer — Medknow Publications Hitesh C. Sheth, Zindadil Gandhi, and G. K. In western literature, the oldest description of symptoms of PTSD, an anxiety group of disorder, is seen in Homer’s Iliad written around 720 BC. According to Shay, Achilles was suffering from symptoms of PTSD. However, in the Indian […]

‘Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me. (Hamlet, Act III Scene 2) These lines, from what is often referred to as the greatest play ever written, depict a seemingly acute episode of […]

The drama of Shakespeare and his colleagues reflects a common misunderstanding at that time as to the causes of mental health problems. They tended to describe anyone with such difficulties as suffering from ‘madness’ a term we would not now use in those cases; but the dramatists recognized that it was a condition that could […]

Antibacterial and immunomodulator activities of virgin coconut oil (VCO) against Staphylococcus aureus — Read on http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6817632/

TNN | Last updated on – Jan 12, 2018, 08:05 IST 1/11Bollywood films made on physical or mental disabilities BCCL Films are rightly touted to be the mirrors of the society we live in. While the Hindi film industry is catching up on the social issues that the Indian society faces, it has also been […]

Photo Credit: NIAID – RML This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (yellow)—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells (blue/pink) cultured in the lab. Most COVID-19 coronavirus patients present with the typical symptoms of fever, fatigue, dry cough and/or shortness of […]

 अपनी नवजात बेटी से मिलना मेरे लिए किसी सेलिब्रिटी से मिलने जैसा था. मैं लंबे समय उससे मिलने के बारे में सोच रही थी. मुझे ऐसा लगा कि जैसे मैं उसे पहले से ही जानती हूं. मैंने उसकी आंखों में भी नहीं देखा और मुझे उससे प्यार हो गया. उस वक़्त मैं इतना ही […]

Mental Illness Book Lists — Read on http://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/mental-illness

These books serve as an introduction to mental health literature in India. Mental Health Stories have a way of holding our hands in the most difficult times; and if the narrative brings with it the visibility some of us need to make sense of our struggle or that of our loved ones, it can be […]

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and a great time to explore the many writers who write on diverse topics related to mental health and mental illness. The following list of books about mental illness contains fiction, graphic novels, nonfiction, memoirs, biographies, and more, all books that broaden our understanding of mental illness from first […]

LOG IN HIRE WRITER Home Blog College Resources Movies About Mental Illness: Real Look At Mental Health 02 Jul 2019 All categories Essay Writing Guides Student Tips Citation Guide Academic Writing Essay Topics Education News College Resources People choose particular films because they make them feel, speak of aspirations, dreams, desires or fears. They tell […]

People choose particular films because they make them feel, speak of aspirations, dreams, desires or fears. They tell of darker things of life, allowing us to portray something that would be challenging to put in words. Movies about mental illness belong to such category where a person is forced to analyze, evaluate, and reflect based […]

12 Pieces Of Literature About Mental Illness You May Not Know — Read on http://www.google.co.in/amp/s/www.theodysseyonline.com/12-pieces-of-literature-about-mental-illness.amp

.entry-header All of these stories have a main character with some form of mental illness. It could be depression, long term mental illness, or a mental strain that suddenly causes insanity. Sometimes the character’s perceptions are presented to us, other times we’re shown the effects of their problem on themselves and others. Some stories have […]

Not the taboo subject it once was, mental illness offers rich territory to explore in books for kids and teens. Stories chronicling the struggles of young people and their friends, siblings, or parents who suffer from anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), agoraphobia, an eating disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, hypochondria, and other illnesses make for engrossing, insightful reading and […]

Best Mentally Ill Characters (244 books) — Read on http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/19822.Best_Mentally_Ill_Characters

244 books — This list was created and voted on by Goodreads members. This list is for the best characters, not the best books. The character does not have to be officially diagnosed as mentally ill or go to therapy in the book to qualify. Fiction only please. If you can, please add the name […]

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself. To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile, said Plato. Many books and novels have been written about mental health issues, with the purpose of talking about it more out in the open. Here are some brilliant accounts of protagonists in […]

18 Book Characters That Accurately Represent Mental Illness — Read on http://www.google.co.in/amp/s/www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/farrahpenn/book-characters-that-accurately-represent-mental-illness

Bustle 11 of the Most Realistic Portrayals of Mental Illness in Novels By REBECCA KELLEY May 13, 2014 Matt Cardy/Getty Images News/Getty Images There is a great tradition of mental illness in fiction. The Victorians loved stashing mad women up in towers or attics, where they could slow-w-wly peel the wallpaper from the walls or […]

Works of fiction dealing with mental illness include: Literature • Ajax, circa 450 – 430 BC; tragedy by Sophocles • Heracles, 416 BC tragedy by Euripides and Hercules Furens, c. AD 40–60 tragedy by Seneca the Younger, both of which cover Hera filling Hercules with a homicidal madness. • Orlando Furioso, 1516-1532; epic poem by […]

Patient Story: Personality Disorders Maria, a single woman without a job, sought therapy at age 33 for treatment of depressed mood, chronic thoughts of killing herself and having no social contact for many months. She had spent the last six months alone in her apartment, lying in bed, eating junk food, watching TV and doing […]

                        EDITORIAL BOARD EDITOR IN CHIEF  Dr. O. P. Sharma ASST. EDITORS Dr. Vivek Handa, Dr. J. K. Sharma, Dr. Mohit Sharma, Dr. Anil K. Manchanda, Dr. Puneet Khanna MEMBERS DESK […]

 G. Umberto Meduri, M.D. Professor of Medicine Division of Critical Care & Sleep Medicine Univ. of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis, Tennessee Pierre Kory, M.D., M.P.A. Medical Dir., Trauma & Life Support Center Critical Care Service Chief Associate Professor of Medicine Univ. of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health Paul E. Marik, MD, […]

I am a senior resident doctor at AIIMS, Trauma centre. I have been deputed to the COVID ICU and have been a part of the contingency preparation process from the beginning. We work in four shifts of six-hours, providing 24/7 care. We follow a seven-day work and a seven-day break routine. Currently, I have just […]

Breaking News. ————————————————– 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 […]

Jayashree Nandi n letters@hindustantimes.com NEW DELHI: The coronavirus disease (Covid-19) can, in some instances, lead to disorientation or delirium, say neurologists treating Covid-19 patients. While the focus has so far been on the effect of the disease on the respiratory system, as doctors treat more patients, they are noticing and document new patterns. Neurologists are […]

International Journal of Research Foundation of Hospital & Healthcare Administration, July-December 2013;1(1):19-24 19 JRFHHA Laws Applicable to Medical Practice and Hospitals in India 1Madhav Madhusudan Singh, 2Uma Shankar Garg, 3Pankaj Arora ABSTRACT Healthcare in India features a universal healthcare care system run by the constituent states and territories. Law is an obligation on the part […]

  Mental Health in the times of COVID-19 Pandemic Guidelines for General Medical and Specialised Mental Health Care Settings DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH & NEUROSCIENCES, BENGALURU, INDIA APRIL – 2020  Mental Health in the times of COVID-19 Pandemic Guidelines for General Medical and Specialised Mental Health Care Settings All […]

 Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment The First A liated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine Compiled According to Clinical Experience    Editor’s Note: Faced with an unknown virus, sharing and collaboration are the best remedy. The publication of this Handbook is one of the best ways to mark the courage and […]

Developing Herd immunity by killing many is not the best option here. Herd immunity is good in polio, mumps. In some diseases, herd immunity during pandemic is the best way. In 1918 flu pandemic, that lasted 3 years killed 2 crore out of 30 crore Indians alone of undivided India then. Globally it killed 10 […]

Staff of the Healthy Mind Lab at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis pack medication and medical equipment to be sent to participants in a COVID-19 trial that will help determine whether the psychiatric drug fluvoxamine might help prevent the life-threatening “cytokine storm” that lands many COVID-19 patients in the hospital. Researchers at […]

By Sohini Das & Gireesh Babu April 11, 2020 11:38 IST Private hospitals, especially smaller standalone ones, are staring at a crisis that they were not prepared for. Analysts say larger corporate chains have to brace up for at least six months for business to return to normal. AK Kaushik, who heads a group of […]

  Analytics: Medical Education and Drugs Department Data: Public Health Department Government of Maharashtra   Table No 1: Comparison of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths VARIABLES WORLD INDIA  MAHARASHTRA TOTAL CASES 1696588 9163 1996  NEW CASES 85679 807 235 TOTAL DEATHS 105952 307  148  NEW DEATHS 6262 34 21 MORTALITY […]

          The coronavirus is not only a health crisis of immense proportion—it’s also an imminent restructuring of the global economic order. Here’s how leaders can begin navigating to what’s next. by Kevin Sneader and Shubham Singhal  March 2020 ©Baona/Getty Images 2 Beyond coronavirus: The path […]

 Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Director-General World Health Organization 20 Avenue Appia CH-1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland Dear Dr. Tedros: April 9, 2020 This letter is in furtherance of the Committee on Oversight and Reform’s (the Committee) ongoing investigation into the Chinese government’s role in exacerbating the COVID-19 pandemic, including its large-scale propaganda campaign.1 The World […]