22-November-2018 13:36 IST Cabinet approves the Allied and Healthcare Professions Bill, 2018 for regulation and standardisation of education and services by allied and healthcare professionals The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the Allied and Healthcare Professions Bill, 2018 for regulation and standardisation of education and services by […]
* नव वर्ष चैत्र शुक्लपक्ष प्रतिपदा को आरम्भ होता हैं जो कि प्राकृतिक है, वैज्ञानिक है और सबसे प्राचीन होने के साथ भारतीय प्राचीन गणित विद्या का गौरव है।* २ परमाणु = १ अणु ३अणु = १ त्रिसरेणु ३ त्रिसरेणु =१ त्रुटि (३ त्रिसरेणु को पार करने मे सूर्य को लगा समय १त्रुटि) १०० त्रुटि […]
Shuang Leng, Ru San Tan, […], and Liang Zhong Most heart diseases are associated with and reflected by the sounds that the heart produces. Heart auscultation, defined as listening to the heart sound, has been a very important method for the early diagnosis of cardiac dysfunction. Traditional auscultation requires substantial clinical experience and good listening […]
People with strong narcissistic tendencies are known for certain destructive social patterns. Anybody who has had the misfortune of dealing with these types of people may notice that whenever there’s a conflict or any type of disagreement, they tend to act in an abhorrent yet predictable manner. In this article we will explore the common […]
Types of Stethoscopes Currently Available In today’s market, there are three general types of stethoscopes available to consumers: the traditional acoustic, amplifying, and digitizing. All of the electronic stethoscopes fall into two broad categories; amplifying and digitizing. Traditional Acoustic Stethoscope (from the Greek stethos-chest and skope-examination) is an acoustic medical device for auscultation, or listening […]
Although many people consider Plastic Surgery as a relatively new specialty, the origin of the plastic surgery had his roots more than 4000 years old in India, back to the Indus River Civilization. The mythico-religious shlokas (hymns) associated with this civilization were compiled in Sanskrit language between 3000 and 1000 B.C. in the form of […]
WHY YOU ARE RIGHT ? You are right that two meals a day will cause weight loss. It will happen. It will happen in the same way in which if I fast, I will lose weight. Any form of caloric restriction produces weight loss and any form of caloric restriction will help control diabetes mellitus. […]
NEW DELHI: The public health expenditure in India, or what the government (Centre and state combined) spends on health, has remained constant over years in most states and is even less than the national average of 1.2% of GDP, making India one of the biggest private spenders on health among the low-middle income countries, latest […]
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/radiant-life-to-merge-with-max-healthcare-to-become-no-3-hospital-chain#gs.HHY393c The FII takeovers of Indian Healthcare chains seems to have started in right earnest. The Fortis shares sale to IHH Healthcare Behrard, Max shares sale to KKR – Radiant Combine, Manipal – Temasak- TPG Capital combine takeover of Medanta all seem to be happening at a feverish pace. Is there a pattern to be […]
‘She was unrecognisable’ – families warn of antipsychotic drug effects Coroners urge health secretary to ensure that clozapine, linked to two deaths, does not claim more lives Jamie Doward Sun 23 Dec 2018 15.00 GMT First published on Sat 22 Dec 2018 16.16 GMT The health secretary is under pressure to respond to growing concerns about the […]
Please check this article out, although I wouldn’t question your expertise” was the one-line WhatsApp message I had received from a concerned father whose son I had seen a few days earlier and had started on an antidepressant. He had sent me a link to a New York Times article (April 2018) which reframed a […]
What is Depression? The term depression is used widely in mental health as well as finance where it denotes a down running economy. In mental health it refers to a very common illness. Now at times we all feel low,down,sad,miserable. These feelings are usually transitory in nature and we soon bounce back to enjoy life. […]
Maybe don’t throw away all those unread New England Journals just yet: A study published in this month’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine found that 92.7% of New England Journals are not read by subscribers and are instead rolled up and used to swat at and kill flies. “That is remarkable but […]
 21 August 1959, Volume 130, Number 3373 SCIENCE CURRENT PROBLEMS IN RESEARCH Orphanedbabymonkeysdevelopa strongandpersisterit attachment to inanimate surrogate mother S. In Harry F. Harlow and Robert R. Zimmerman Investigatorsfromdiversebehavioral thatmonkeyandchimpanmzeeinfantsde- fields have long recognized the strong velop strong ties to their mothers and attachmentoftheneonatalandinfantile thattheseaffectionalattaichmentsmay animaltoitsmother.Althoughthisaf- persistforyears.Itis,ofcourse,com- fectionalbehaviorhasbeencommonly monknowledgethathiumaninfants observed,thereis,outsidethefieldof formstrongandpersistenttiestotheir ethology,scantexperimentalevidence mothers. permittingidentificationofthefactors […]
Phases of Psychosis Although a psychotic episode is viewed as occurring in three phases, not all people will experience clear symptoms of all three phases. Each person’s experience will differ. Three Phases of a Psychotic Episode The typical course of a psychotic episodes can be thought of as having three phases: Prodrome Phase, Acute Phase, […]
One hears epic accounts of people surviving bullets to the brain, 10-story freefalls or months stranded at sea. But put a human anywhere in the known universe except for the thin shell of space that extends a couple of miles above or below sea level on Earth, and we perish within minutes. As strong and […]
India left embarrassed: Renowned medical journal Lancet discusses rising violence in country’s health sector In a piece published in one of the oldest medical journals in the world in April, it was said that the health workers in India have reached a breaking point in the wake of continuous physical attacks on them. By : […]
If you are looking for a career in the ‘lucrative’ medical field, you are in luck. This article takes about 10 minutes to read (5 minutes if you have completed 12th standard). Once you complete reading the article, you will know how one can become a doctor in India. You don’t need any medical qualification, […]
US NEWS BY JACK PHILLIPS December 7, 2018 Updated: December 7, 2018 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an update on Dec. 6 about its ongoing recall of heart and blood pressure medication due to impurities that could cause cancer. It said Mylan Pharmaceuticals “is expanding its voluntary recall to include all lots […]
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 Lotfi Hacein-Bey, MDa,b,*, Jeremy J. Heit, MD, PhDc, Angelos A. Konstas, MDd  KEYWORDS Acute stroke Ischemia Neuro-interventional management Thrombectomy Endovascular KEY POINTS Mechanicalthrombectomyisnowstandardofcareinstrokefromlarge-vesselocclusionwithClass IA evidence. Treatment paradigms will likely evolve from time limits toward personalized physiology-based pa- tient evaluation. Although a number of effective devices are available, techniques will continue to evolve. Increasingly […]
Good DC. Definition Intermittent neurologic symptoms comprise a group of complaints that may be associated with dysfunction of many organ systems, including the central nervous system, cardiovascular system, and vestibular apparatus. Intermittent metabolic disturbances and psychiatric problems may also result in neurologic symptoms. Despite these diverse etiologies, all the conditions discussed here share the following […]
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 […]
Have you ever thought of psychosis as a dream-like state of mind? Dreaming does actually bear strong similarities with the psychotic state of mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. Psychotic states are characterized by hallucinations, loosening of associations, incongruity of personal experience, and a loss of self-reflective capacity. Dreams can also be seen as a kind […]
Our observations of hundreds of depressed patients had confirmed that excessive worry puts huge stress on the REM sleep mechanism. This led us to hypothesise that schizophrenia develops in those particularly imaginative, highly sensitive people who become so stressed that the REM sleep discharge mechanism cannot take the strain, and so their ability to separate […]
In India, before marriages there are compatibility concerns on various issues but medical issues are never given their due importance. People tend to overlook or are unaware of the health aspect of the marriage. Premarital checkup should be conducted for a soon-to-be-married couple in order to identify if there is any injury with genetic blood […]
(c) Dr. Rajas Deshpande Long day. Came home. Ritual steamy hot bath to wash away the hospital feel, followed by steaming hot dinner. Switched on jazz, and I picked up the pasta. Heaven descended upon my tongue. “How perfect this moment is!” I thought, and that’s where I was wrong. The phone rang. “Sir, 18 […]
It’s often said that early retirement lengthens your life, but is it true? And do some professions have a shorter life expectancy? If a statistical claim is repeated often enough it can become accepted as a universal truth, even if it has no basis in fact. There’s the suggestion that 93% of communication is non-verbal […]
With the surge in dengue cases this year, a 2012 Facebook post with an image of papaya leaves is viral again with close to 995,000 shares since it was first posted. This Facebook post attributes a Times of India article as the source of information, and suggests that the juice of papaya leaves may be […]
For other uses, see Life extension (disambiguation). Life extension is the idea of extending the human lifespan, either modestly – through improvements in medicine – or dramatically by increasing the maximum lifespan beyond its generally settled limit of 125 years.[1] The ability to achieve such dramatic changes, however, does not currently exist.[2] Some researchers in […]
A study by Dr. Ephrem Cheng, a leading American scholar, on the relationship between life expectancy and retirement age ( Age at Retirement Vs Life Span) The investigation report. The report netted several pension plans for U.S. supermajority groups, including Boeing, AT&T and Ford Motor Co., and found that the later the executive retires, the […]
by John Dahlia Business Editor NCWV Media Oct 29, 2018 9 The team celebrates at the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute moments after members successfully performed the first procedure in the world of a phase II trial using focused ultrasound to treat a patient with early stage Alzheimer’s. At the center is Judi Polak, who is […]
COMMENTARY JORGE A. GUZMAN, MD Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic MADHU SASIDHAR, MD Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic JAMES K. STOLLER, MD, MS Chairman, Education Institute; Executive Director, Leadership Development, Professional Staff Affairs Office; and Head, Cleveland Clinic Respiratory Therapy, Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Cleveland Clinic  ■ […]
Salient features • First major revision after 21 years, previous edition was 1997 • Called “Competency-based UG Curriculum for the Indian Medical Graduate” • For the first time, India’s MBBS curriculum acknowledges the importance of ethics, responsiveness to needs of patients and families and fine communication skills to engage the ailing • Clinical exposure from first year itself […]
Every day, a small ant arrives at work very early and starts work immediately. She produces a lot and she was happy. The Chief, a lion, was surprised to see that the ant was working without supervision. He thought if the ant can produce so much without supervision, wouldn’t she produce even more if she […]
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Joe Diemand, 76, has spent the past 20 years as a truck driver, sometimes driving all night. Such… Read More Our floodlit society has made sleep deprivation a lifestyle. But we know more than ever about how we rest—and how it keeps us healthy. BY MICHAEL FINKEL PHOTOGRAPHS BY MAGNUS WENNMAN This story appears in […]
left CCI, which has so far received 52 cases pertaining to anti-competitive practices in pharmaceutical and healthcare sector, prescribed some policy and regulatory action to address issues choking competition. Viswanath Pilla Earlier this week, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) released a first of its kind policy note on “Making Markets Work for Affordable Healthcare”. The […]
 See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5487992 Considerations Article in Pharmacotherapy · May 2008 DOI: 10.1592/phco.28.4.530 · Source: PubMed CITATIONS READS 53 117 6 authors, including: Jeffrey R Strawn University of Cincinnati 177 PUBLICATIONS 2,269 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these […]
There are three aspects of ritual of karva chauth . One is fasting the whole day without water, the other is ritual of seeing the moon through a sieve, and other is looking at your husband through a sieve .It is known that moon can cause tidal waves in ocean and since we all carry […]
This mysterious unity of the heavenly and the terrestrial realms personified in the Female is certainly the most powerful and long lasting religious image ever to evolve in the human species. And in fact, it is still with us today. Go into any Catholic church and look closely at the image of the mother of […]
The moon has always fascinated us, as it has been part of our culture, religion and literature since time immemorial. It is also the closest celestial force and has its own impact on the Earth and its beings. It influences and drives a number of natural phenomenon that occur on earth, such as the ocean […]
The moon looms large in folklore, urban legends and myths from around the world. And on Monday Nov. 14, it will loom larger in the sky than it has in decades. Every full moon is a spectacular sight, if skies are clear. But November’s full moon is far from ordinary. It will be the closest […]
The Moon and the lunar cycle have been associated with insanity since forever. Before there were Shakespeare’s jesters making fun of people because the Moon seem to have affected them. Then came the modern legends of the werewolf. Moon was considered powerful enough, not just to control the sway of the tides (very powerful feat […]
8 Signs of a Healthy Baby Do you wonder if your little one is eating enough, sleeping enough, and on track for all those important milestones? Check out these easy-to-spot signs that prove Baby is both happy and healthy. Pinterest Facebook More Pinterest PhotoAlto/ Veer <img srcset=”https://assets.parents.com/s3fs-public/styles/nfp_220_portrait/public/images/p_PHP3040102.jpg?xkGKL3pGTRZP2N972DYS3qHqBRFVankz 220w, https://assets.parents.com/s3fs-public/styles/nfp_450_portrait/public/images/p_PHP3040102.jpg?nK3SQhvCfnIvU.lkTpTP5kUksWEGtcB3 450w, https://assets.parents.com/s3fs-public/styles/nfp_550_portrait/public/images/p_PHP3040102.jpg?hMjDnVj1Vpn4BLjUUHszkEZ0gvE1D2FA 550w, https://assets.parents.com/s3fs-public/styles/nfp_640_portrait/public/images/p_PHP3040102.jpg?GnszXH9uv9yNNA4c0kA9W3i5kt1d7nAa 640w, https://assets.parents.com/s3fs-public/styles/nfp_860_portrait/public/images/p_PHP3040102.jpg?6skABO0WqGXqHg7tbe07cSU.w0.pMIoo […]
Children can develop the same mental health conditions as adults, but their symptoms may be different. Know what to watch for and how you can help. By Mayo Clinic Staff Mental illness in children can be hard for parents to identify. As a result, many children who could benefit from treatment don’t get the help […]
years ago there was a remarkable incidence of MD paediatrics students final examination in KGMC, Lucknow in which all the PG students were declared “Failed” by the external examiner on the basis of their different diagnosis of a child of 9 month age kept for spot diagnosis ( No History, No Examination was permitted ). […]
Biomedical waste is a misnomer and thrust on medical professionals to harass them and extract money illegally. Take a scenario a pt with open tuberculosis with diabetic foot admitted in a hospital, pt foot ambutated and marked as biomedical waste and all precautions are required to disposed in a dedicated team in a dedicated incinerator. […]
  ON MEDICINE By Siddhartha Mukherjee Oct. 10, 2018 The anatomy laboratory was always freezing. This was our first course as medical students, and we had split ourselves into groups — four students to every cluster. Each of us carried a copy of “Netter’s Anatomy”; by the end of three months in the lab, […]
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