Medical Diseases Archives

World AIDS day 2024:Take the rights path

By rjoshimgims December 1, 2023Medical Diseases10 Comments

Index Home HIV stigma, perpetuates inequality Stigma befriends some diseases.In ancient times it was Leprosy, followed by Syphillis, and in the modern times HIV. In ancient times, individuals with a flat-nose,…

Changing symbolism and slogans in HIV-AIDS philately

By rjoshimgims December 1, 2023Medical Diseases13 Comments

Index Home Part 1 (1981-2007) Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Scientific evidence shows that the virus sneaked into human beings around 1920s. We realised its existence, about…

Angiography: How did we start seeing our vessels

By rjoshimgims October 22, 2023Medical Diseases, Tools in Health14 Comments

Index Home This year, the technique of angiography will turn 99. The first successful angiography was performed on 28th June 1927. This feat by an Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz led to…

One stamp one story: Inflamed Bowel

By rjoshimgims September 3, 2023Medical Diseases6 Comments

Index Home Each stamp has a story to tell. These are lucky few, where I have either one, or just a few to weave a story. These medical themes may be…

Hundred years of international committee of Red Cross (1863-1963)

By rjoshimgims August 3, 2023Medical Diseases2 Comments

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

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…

Mission immunisation and polio eradication

By rjoshimgims March 26, 2023Health care delivery, Health concepts, Medical Diseases9 Comments

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 !!

By rjoshimgims January 29, 2023Medical Diseases, Tools in Health15 Comments

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

By rjoshimgims January 21, 2023Health concepts, Medical Diseases13 Comments

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

By rjoshimgims January 15, 2023Health concepts, Medical Diseases22 Comments

Index Home It was in 1950 that we scientifically established a link between Smoking and Lung Cancer. The work by British physicians Richard Doll and Bradford Hill was build-up on evidence…