Bandage: A cloth cover to wrap, hold or press
Bandage is synonymous with healing and care. The word comes from "bind" or to hold together. It is a symbol of empathy and care. Some recent postage stamps designed to…
Anyone can drown, no one should
Index Home On 25th July every year, World Health Organisation (WHO) observes world drowning prevention day. Tag-line of this day is - anyone can drown, no one should. While, death…
Basic Life Support (BLS) makes dead alive again
Index Home Basic Life Support or BLS is a sequence of actions, that attempt to bring life back, after it has seemingly ceased. When heart stops, or lungs fail to…
Stretcher and its bearers over the years
Index Home Stretcher is an unassuming medical transportation device. It is unassuming, as it lays hidden between the patient and the stretcher-bearer. Stretcher bearers also are often unsung. Yet stretchers and…
Babywearing: A new name for an old tradition
Index Home Words have a history, and so has "babywearing". As per Webster's dictionary, we used this word for the first time in the year 1989. It is the practice of…
Cardiac surgery: putting heart under a knife
Index Home In 1896 a textbook of surgery had noted that operating on a heart is impossible. Muscles of the heart are always in motion, and its chambers are always churning…
Wavy ECG gestures that make our heart to beat
Index Home We all live, without skipping a heart-beat. These are more than 25 billion beats over a life-time. Each of these beats means that our heart muscles have had a…
The history of hysteria, our frenzy of womb or mind
Index Home Jean Charcot A famous French Physician Hysteria is a state of emotional extreme. Today we know it as an uncontrolled frenzy or excitement, that may stem from intense happiness,…