Last week India’s Union budget was passed by the Union finance minister P. Chidambaram. It was met with mixed reactions by markets and pundits. As a healthcare professional interested in […]
South Asia
Anant Bhan and Bhavna Dhingra: We need a comprehensive approach to women’s health in India
It has been a winter of discontent regarding the status of women in India, sparked by national outrage following the gruesome gang rape of a young trainee physiotherapist in Delhi. […]
Jacob Puliyel on the All India centralised entrance test
Final year medical students in the UK currently face an uncertain future as they wait to find out what foundation school place they have been allocated following the muddled “situational […]
Jeremy Hill: Teaching family medicine in Bangalore
“Please come to Bangalore” was the invitation. In my day job I am a British general practitioner with special interests in dermatology and medical education—so what was I doing teaching […]
Amir Attaran on tackling counterfeit medicines
Vienna—Efforts to rid the world of dangerous medicines have been given a boost by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime. Delegates of UN member states, police, manufacturers, academics, […]
Anita Jain: A roundtable on primary healthcare in India
Coinciding with the visit of the British prime minister, David Cameron, to India last week, a business seminar was held in Mumbai to identify opportunities for health sector partnerships. Meeta […]
Krishnan Ganapathy: Homo mobilicus – the homo sapiens of tomorrow
When Marty Cooper (whom I had the privilege of meeting) invented the cell phone in 1973, he could not have foreseen that he would be disproving Charles Darwin’s hypothesis. According […]
Krishnan Ganapathy: Is surgery not more than stitching and cutting ?
The genesis for this blog was listening to 34 fascinating, highly technical lectures including “How I do it” sessions at an international neurosurgical update for young neurosurgeons. Operating theatres resembled the […]
Krishnan Ganapathy: Is your doctor healthy enough?
Several years ago in a study carried out at the Dept of Neurosurgery in AIIMS New Delhi, the authors continuously monitored the pulse rate, blood pressure and ECG of neurosurgeons […]
No (wo)man is an island…and neither is Britain when it comes to violence and HIV
Emma Bell, Susan Bewley, Silvia Petretti, Lynda Shentall, and Alice Welbourn. Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) [1], increases the vulnerability of women and girls to acquiring HIV. Research from Asia, Africa, […]