Health and Medicine in Postal Stamps https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Health and Medicine in Postage stamps Nurses in Khaki, and how it all began Iodine, salt and smiling sun: A forgotten story A lost Red Lion and rising sun symbol Changing symbolism and slogans in HIV-AIDS philately Rotary: Wheels in motion for local and global good Seven medical success stories from India in stamps Medical books and journals in postal stamps Gender portrayal: Masculinity for war, and Feminism for care Girl Child and movement for its rights in India Gender based violence exists, but is quite often ignored Portuguese were the first to begin health-care colonialism Berlin doctors soon after second world war was over Prostaglandins: Substances with too much on their plate Mighty but tiny energy houses in our cells -mitochondria Faith-healers who cure by calling spirits, and emotions Dr TM Nair: A doctor politician in Madras Presidency Mirror, mirror on the wall… light it bends, to show it all. A calendar date that defines an anomaly at birth Silhouettes of risk and their impact on our healthy lives The first multinational HIV philately campaign by UPAEP 2000 Thermometer: Need to give fever a number on a scale A Mold that saved the world Sepsis: Serious infection that leads to a war within Curies discover a new way to find Cure for Cancers Medical Imaging: Invisible rays make us see Lunatic asylums: Borne out of shame and contempt Bassini led the way for a perfect hernia repair Diabetes, a bitter disease with plentiful sweet urine Golgi and Cajal: Two adversaries who shared a Nobel Prize Round blood cells get curved to clog our vessels Sickle cell elimination is on a mission mode Finsen’s Nobel Prize for letting light to heal The history of hysteria, our frenzy of womb or mind ‘Chiaroscuro’ to depict conflict or state of mind Virginia Apgar, an accidental anesthetist Christiaan Barnard, and his heart transplants Small-pox: An enormous burden that was relieved in 1980 Mayo clinic: The first modern group practice William Osler and origin of residency in medical training Bullying: A behavior on its way to become a disorder ? Three implants to mend heart: Stent, Valve and a Defibrillator War is a disease, and UN was designed to prevent it The Rise and fall of Mass Miniature Radiography (MMR) Autism Jigsaw Symbol: Time for a change ? McDowell performs first successful abdominal surgery: accolades and brickbats Dog guides as friends for the visually challenged Malpighi and beyond: Italian legacy with a microscope Zoonoses: Why diseases from animals now pass on to us Bug of the soil to treat Tuberculosis