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Origin of the Red Cross movement

By rjoshimgims July 22, 2023Health care organizations9 Comments

Index Home Nineteenth century Europe was a war theatre. These conflicts started with Napoleonic wars (1803-1815), and went on with revolution and conflicts of Italian and Prussian unification (1848-1866). Weapons, industries,…

Medical services in the sky

By rjoshimgims July 6, 2023Health concepts, Tools in Health8 Comments

Index Home During First World War we began to use airplanes, both as a weapon and as a medical service. In 1917, a British plane evacuated a solder with a broken…

How to make our roads healthy and safe ?

By rjoshimgims July 1, 2023Health concepts6 Comments

Index Home About 1.3 million humans die, and another 50 million suffer injuries in road accidents every year. These numbers have remained almost unchanged in the last twenty years. Most deaths…

Our governing molecules, from concept to a structure

By rjoshimgims June 25, 2023Health concepts7 Comments

Index Home A child is a mix of two parents. Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) questioned this belief, and in 1865 he demonstrated that expressed traits are not a mix. Instead, traits are…

Intensive care: borne out of an epidemic

By rjoshimgims June 17, 2023Health concepts11 Comments

Index Home Today almost all large hospitals have an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Purpose of this facility is to provide care for the severely ill patients, who often require heroic measures…

Medical innovations in British stamps

By rjoshimgims June 11, 2023Health concepts, Tools in Health5 Comments

Index Home Postage stamp was a British innovation. First introduced on 6th May 1840, it was a beginning for pre-paid postage, we still follow world-wide. Since then British postage stamps have…

Women’s health, cancer screening and Papanicolaou

By rjoshimgims May 28, 2023Medical Diseases11 Comments

Index Home Healthcare suffers from male dominance. At the beginning of 20th century, most doctors were men. Maternal care, commonest women's health concern, was more of a tradition rather than part…

Vienna: The rise & fall of a medical university

By rjoshimgims May 22, 2023Health concepts8 Comments

Index Home Till early 1900s, Vienna was a leading centre for medical education. Ranked after Paris, and Berlin Medical University of Vienna had brought many innovations. University was so prestigious, that…

Conflict, peace and health

By rjoshimgims April 28, 2023Health concepts, Misc12 Comments

Index Home Conflict affects health (and vice-versa) Conflicts disrupt health systems. They not only overwhelm health-facilities with wounds and injuries, they also disrupt supply chain of medical supplies. Further, health-care workers,…

World Health Organization: Philately @75

By rjoshimgims April 28, 2023Health care delivery, Health concepts, Misc5 Comments

Birthday commemorations for WHO After the end of the second world war, victorious nations agreed to form an organisation, that could prevent a third-world war. When the ward ended in…