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Hospitals around the world: Different strokes for Ivory towers

Posted by By rjoshimgims December 11, 2022Posted inHealth care facilities2 Comments
Index Home Ivory-towers are places of seclusion. Its inmates are often busy in their own pursuits, unaware of the world outside. Critics often equate hospitals to ivory-towers, both from a position…
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Medical colleges and hospitals in India

Posted by By rjoshimgims December 4, 2022Posted inHealth care facilities14 Comments
Index Home Today India has more than 780 medical colleges, and about 64 standalone postgraduate institutes. There are more than 70,000 hospitals in India. Healthcare system in India is ancient. We…
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Heart dominates, but does it ?

Posted by By rjoshimgims November 20, 2022Posted inMedical Diseases11 Comments
Index Home Heart has a special place amongst all organs. While brain, blood, liver, skin and kidneys all work silently - heart is loud. It is the only one to beat,…
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Diabetes, a bitter disease with plentiful sweet urine

Posted by By rjoshimgims November 14, 2022Posted inMedical Diseases6 Comments
Index Home A postcard issued by Karnataka Circle on 14th November 2024, which is world diabetes day, Frederick Banting, a Canadian doctor and a co-discoverer of  Insulin was born on 14th…
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Small-pox: An enormous burden that was relieved in 1980

Posted by By rjoshimgims November 1, 2022Posted inMedical Diseases13 Comments
Index Home Small-pox had a high mortality, a third of all infected would die. Survivors would become blind, and carry a scarred face for life. Every infected person would have fever,…
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Malaria in postage stamps, A 1962 story

Posted by By rjoshimgims October 30, 2022Posted inMedical Diseases13 Comments
Index Home Malaria is an infection, caused by a tiny bug - Plasmodium and its species. This bug enters human body by a mosquito-bite and multiplies, leading to fever. Bug also…
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Leprosy: Saga of an eternal discrimination

Posted by By rjoshimgims October 6, 2022Posted inMedical Diseases10 Comments
Index Home First day cover from Malagasy (Madagascar) issued 30th January 1966, World Leprosy Day Leprosy is an infection, affecting skin and the nerves. We discovered organism causing this infection, Mycobacterium…
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History of Pharmacy: to make, produce and dispense

Posted by By rjoshimgims September 25, 2022Posted inMedical Diseases10 Comments
Index Home When physicians were their own pharmacists Most ancient physicians formulated their own remedies, and dispensed them too. Physicians and their family members held on to recipes as a closely…
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Fundraising for Tuberculosis elimination

Posted by By rjoshimgims September 17, 2022Posted inMedical Diseases11 Comments
Index Home Need for Fundraising Discovery of TB-bacillus in 1882 was a landmark event. Excited by this discovery, next ask was to find a cure. Individuals who contracted TB included rich…
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Tuberculosis: A wasting illness

Posted by By rjoshimgims September 16, 2022Posted inMedical Diseases34 Comments
Index Home TB: A wasting affection of the Lungs Tuberculosis (also known as TB), is a disease with devastating health, social, economic and cultural consequences. Greeks called it pthisis, and Romans…
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