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India’s health ministry must make ban on smoking a personal cause

Posted on September 23, 2019January 8, 2020 Edmond

The recent ban on e-cigarettes has been the talk that hover’s around every conversation in the public health and public

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In defense of Bishop Derek – Belagavi

Posted on September 14, 2019January 8, 2020 Edmond

There was a recent furore with regard to the saffron robe being worn by the Bishop of Belagavi who embraced

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How Punjab will lose a generation to drugs

Posted on September 12, 2019August 20, 2020 Edmond

Drug business brings a turnover of over $500 billion, only next to petroleum and arms trade. Over 190 million people

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Can the techno-consumptive culture fuel Indian healthcare?

Posted on August 29, 2019August 20, 2020 Edmond

Evidence based medicine is slowly being strengthened into technology driven medicine. The workshops that are being held on robotics, artificial

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Long term health consequences of Cyclone Fani

Posted on August 29, 2019August 20, 2020 Edmond

Human altruism gets faded out, once the newspapers and primetime television channels stop covering the disaster. The communities are left

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Global health: A philosophical narrative in real time

Posted on August 29, 2019August 20, 2020 Edmond

Fond recollection of historical times, serves to remind us that healthcare is integral to human survival. The problem of hubris

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Tobacco, public health and the battle of Waterloo

Posted on August 29, 2019August 20, 2020 Edmond

One might wonder what the Battle of Waterloo has got to do with public health and tobacco in the first

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Healthcare 2019: The age of Rahul Gandhi & Narendra Modi

Posted on August 29, 2019August 20, 2020 Edmond

  The General elections 2019 is fast approaching and political out-reaches have started. In all those popular conversations, dinner table

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Lessons in Indian healthcare: What PhD supervisors & medical school teachers must know

Posted on August 29, 2019August 20, 2020 Edmond

I speak for those doctoral candidates who are scared what their supervisors think, I speak for those post graduates in

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Papaya leaf extract must aid in dengue fever management

Posted on August 29, 2019August 20, 2020 Edmond

Dodging the mosquito is not absolutely easy as vector bionomics gets complicated with climate change and neighbourhood community practices, which

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