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• Florida Clampdown on Pain Pills Lowers Drug-Related Mortality

  

  Ever since I started working with the homeless youth of Delhi, I have noticed their drug and substance dependence issues and how, despite knowing the... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• MERS CoV: Can It Spread from Camels to Man?

  

  The Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS CoV) is a novel single stranded RNA virus that has been doing the rounds in the Middle East, bits of... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Ebola Outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone

  

  Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are in the midst of an outbreak of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever. The numbers that have been provided by the respective ministries... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• The Man with a Million Hits: John Ioanndis

  

  If you are not aware of Prof. John Ioannidis and his work, well, you must have been living buried under the proverbial rock (also known as AIPG/AIIMS papers). H... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• West Nile Virus and Polio-like Syndromes: An Emerging Threat

  

  While the whole nation has been gripped by a media-induced frenzy about the fatal effects of the so-called “litchi virus” (do not get me started on this! This... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Vintage Vehicle Voyeurism: The Poor Motorhead’s Pastime

  

  One of my pastimes is to look for vintage vehicles for sale on the net. Now, almost all of these are beyond my purchasing power, but, surfing through these and... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• JIMA: Largest Medical Journal in Print Closes Shop

  

  The Journal of the Indian Medical Association seems to have ceased publication in March, according to this newspaper article, which caught my attention recently. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Medical Wish-list: What Can the New Government Do for Us?

  

  “…ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” - John F. KennedyThe reason why I open this possibly naive post with this... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• The King (of Indian Roads) is Dead… Long Live the King

  

  These days the newspapers are awash with so many happening and eye-catching articles, that it would not be too hard to miss this one: Hindustan Motors, the... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Happy Towel Day!

  

  So, you never heard of this, eh? Today is World Towel Day, celebrated in the memory of Douglas Adams, the celebrated author of A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galax... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Meet Your Match: USMLE Match 2014 Interview #3: Meet the Little Rock-Star!

  

  I had embarked on a project to write about people and their experience of cracking the USMLE puzzle this year, and had asked matchers to fill in a short, and... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Meet Your Match: USMLE Match 2014 Interview #2: Cleve-land Ahoy!

  

  This is the second post of the series where I talk to (and about) people who have successfully matched and reached the culmination of their USMLE Journey. I hav... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Confessions of a Quondam Gourmand

  

  I usually stay away from posting personal stuff on my blog here at Scepticemia, but seeing as how the personal stuff has kept me from blogging (and life, in... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Meet Your Match: USMLE Match 2014 Interview #1 – Houston, You Have a Resident!

  

  This is a series in which I post about the confessions of the USMLE matchers this year. I had encouraged people to fill in their responses to a series of... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• The Parable of the Farmers Plagued by Rats: AKA Publications in Advancing Medica...

  

  There was a small island kingdom, inhabited by a peaceful race of people who prospered through the advances they had made in agriculture. One day, they were... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• DNA Digest’s Twitter Competition for Data Sharing in Genetics

  

  As any reader of Ben Goldacre’s blog and books will know, open data is the big debate. And the bigger the diagnostic or therapeutic implications of the data... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Hacking of the National Institute of Epidemiology and Musings on Hacktivism

  

  Yesterday, my friend and medical blogging maestro, SoumyadeepB brought this to my notice:National Institute of #Epidemiology, #India hacked .. @scepticemia migh... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2014 CURRENT, SOCIETY, TECH

• My “Kunwar Amar Fiasco” and Republic Day Reflections

  

  I have been debating whether or not I should write this post, but eventually I decided to go ahead with it. There is no point in holding back on one’s... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE, SOCIAL MEDIA

• USMLE Match 2013: Part 1: Positions Per Applicant – Revealing the IMG Story

  

  This post has been long due, and I have been rather flattered that I received several “requests” for this post as a follow up to my previous ones; you can find... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• The Death of a Disease: India Eradicates Polio

  

  Today (13th January, 2014) is a landmark day in the history of public health in India. It is exactly three years since the last Polio case was detected in India. Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE