Hundred years of international committee of Red Cross (1863-1963)
Index Home This is fourth in the series of Red-Cross philately blogs. Here we focus on Red Cross stamps from 1963, a year when International committee of Red Cross (ICRC) turned…
Women’s health, cancer screening and Papanicolaou
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…
Mission immunisation and polio eradication
Home Index Today polio stands eliminated from all but two countries in the world. India was declared to have eliminated polio in the year 2014. Ten years later about 65 odd…
We have a lot of nerve !!
Index Home All living beings react to their environment. Barring a few, all animals can see, hear, feel, smell and taste our surroundings. We all can also walk, jump, balance and…
Illicit drugs and addiction
Index Home All Illicit drugs were not always illegal. For centuries we used them in cultural & religious rituals, and also for healing. Addiction was considered more of a sinful individual…
Tobacco: A merchandise of death
Index Home For a good part of human history, most world was oblivious to tobacco. In 1492, natives in Central American new world gifted Columbus with various items, as he was…
Cancer: An antagonist in human story
Index Home Dear Cancer, For centuries you have slithered inside our bodies. You silently grow, wrapping all the structures that come your way. As you become big, you siphon away all…
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,…