rjoshimgims, Author at Health and Medicine in Postal Stamps

Changing symbolism and slogans in HIV-AIDS philately

By rjoshimgims December 1, 2023Medical Diseases13 Comments

Index Home Part 1 (1981-2007) Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Scientific evidence shows that the virus sneaked into human beings around 1920s. We realised its existence, about…

Plant remedies for health in Indian stamps

By rjoshimgims November 30, 2023Tools in Health19 Comments

Index Home Plants are ancient. Evolution of plants began about 400 million years ago. Humans arrived much later on the scene, only about 4-million years ago. Beginning of agriculture and first…

Count, analyze and interpret: Data for health

By rjoshimgims November 26, 2023Health concepts, Misc5 Comments

Index Home Latin word datum means 'to give'. In english this word means a 'single piece of information'. As information grows from singular to pleural, it becomes 'data'. We subconsciously collect…

“Hospital on a train” & its postage stamps

By rjoshimgims November 24, 2023Health care facilities, Health care organizations, Health concepts, Misc12 Comments

Index Home We have all heard the story of James Watt, who probably inspired by a fluttering lid of a kettle, invented steam engine in 1769. About 35 years later, Richard…

Telecom and health in 1980 and origins of Telemedicine

By rjoshimgims November 9, 2023Health concepts, Tools in Health10 Comments

Index Home About four decades ago, in 1980 there was no public internet (or World Wide Web). While idea of internet (or connected computers) did exist, it started taking shape only…

Australian postage stamps on it’s medical legends

By rjoshimgims November 5, 2023Health Professionals6 Comments

Index Home Australia, a continent unknown to the remaining world, was formally colonised by the British in 1788. British sent fleets of convicts, and by 1841 they had more than 1,65,000…

Refugee health: distraught and displaced

By rjoshimgims October 29, 2023Health care organizations, Health concepts, Misc10 Comments

Index Home Refuge is to seek protection. Thus, a refugees is an individual who looses protection in their country, and is forced to flee. This loss of protection is usually a…

Angiography: How did we start seeing our vessels

By rjoshimgims October 22, 2023Medical Diseases, Tools in Health14 Comments

Index Home This year, the technique of angiography will turn 99. The first successful angiography was performed on 28th June 1927. This feat by an Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz led to…

Medical scientists on Israeli stamps, and their Indian connection

By rjoshimgims October 14, 2023Health Professionals9 Comments

Index Home Israel honoured two medical scientists, with a postage stamp-set in 1994. Both, worked on vaccines to prevent infections that are common in the tropics. Both were born, and received…

A Mold that saved the world

By rjoshimgims October 8, 2023Tools in Health9 Comments

Index Home Some discoveries are serendipitous. Born in 1881, medicine was not an initial choice for Alexander Flemming. He initially studied in a polytechnic and later worked in a shipping office…