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Carotenoids, Vitamin A and substances that give plants its colors

By rjoshimgims August 2, 2026Health concepts, Health ProfessionalsNo Comments

Fruits and flowers are colorful, quite unlike leaves that have shades of green. While green color comes from chlorophyll; shades of orange, yellow, and red come from carotenoids and betalains;…

Argentinian medics, depicted in its postage stamps

By rjoshimgims July 19, 2026Health Professionals

Argentina (currently known as Argentine Republic) was established as a Spanish colonial territory. In 1816, the country declared its independence. Named after a precious metal, silver the country is well…

Florence Nightingale’s lamp, that never was hers

By rjoshimgims May 9, 2026Health Professionals

Florence Nightingale is an iconic figure, and as a founder of modern nursing, is revered across the world. She is depicted on various postage stamps, bank notes, and many other…

Ilizarov and his apparatus for healing of bone defects

By rjoshimgims April 25, 2026Health Professionals, Tools in Health1 Comment

Ilizarov is a name most doctors, and especially those who practice orthopedics are well aware of. However, his journey from obscurity to global fame, is not much known. He invented,…

Bohler: A surgeon who gave science and method to bone setting

By rjoshimgims April 24, 2026Health Professionals, Tools in Health

Individuals with fractured leg bones, often need pins, pulleys, and plaster to hold the two ends of the broken bone, close-together. As patients with this intricate system are made to…

Faith-healers who cure by calling spirits, and emotions

By rjoshimgims February 13, 2026Health Professionals, Health system3 Comments

While healing itself is an art, many consider faith-healing as quite farther away from science. While disease is more ancient as compared to its cure, faith-healing may well be a…

Berlin doctors soon after second world war was over

By rjoshimgims February 13, 2026Health Professionals, History of Medicine3 Comments

Adolf Hitler killed himself on 30th April 1945, and over next two days German garrison in Berlin had surrendered. Soviet army from the east, south and north moved in to…

Nurses in Khaki, and how it all began

By rjoshimgims January 15, 2026Health Professionals

We usually visualize nurses to be in a white attire, but more recently the colors are often blue, green or mauve. On the other hand Khaki (a brownish yellow color)…

Dr TM Nair: A doctor politician in Madras Presidency

By rjoshimgims December 21, 2025Health Professionals

Many doctors may have come across a Monthly Medical Journal "The Antiseptic". This Journal - A monthly publication of medicine and Surgery, was established in the year 1904, in Madras…