Heart dominates, but does it ?
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,…
Diabetes, a bitter disease with plentiful sweet urine
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…
Small-pox: An enormous burden that was relieved in 1980
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,…
Malaria in postage stamps, A 1962 story
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…
Leprosy: Saga of an eternal discrimination
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…
History of Pharmacy: to make, produce and dispense
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…
Fundraising for Tuberculosis elimination
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…
Tuberculosis: A wasting illness
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…
Selfless service in faraway lands: humanism in healthcare
Index Home Humanism: What does it entail ? Healthcare is often equated with self-less service. Healthcare providers are trained to be non-discriminatory, to view every sufferer as a human, regardless of…
Medical Imaging: Invisible rays make us see
Index Home It just happened one day Scientists were beginning to discover existence of invisible rays towards the end of 19th century. Physicists of the day, Humphry Davy, Micheal Faraday, Hemholtz…