Pranab

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• 2013 in Review

  

  The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.Here’s an excerpt:Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Buying and Selling Never Was So Easy

  This is a sponsored guest post.Nowadays, Internet has transformed our lives so much that we use it for doing almost everything. One of the clearest examples of... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• World Toilet Day: Sanitation for Gender Equity

  Hello. It is World Toilet Day today! I have made it a point to regularly blog about it every year since I started blogging:Have A Shitty Day: World Toilet... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• PixelPumper: Windows Live Writer Replacement for Mac?

  I have recently shifted to using a MacBook Air (thanks for the applause, now can you please give me some money so that I can buy some food?) and for the most... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Assam Rape Festival: A Satire, A Nation Ridiculed

  So the American news website called National Report has come up with an obviously fake satire about a Rape Festival beginning in Assam this week. Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Showing Polio the Finger: A Lesson in Public Health

  

  As students of Public Health, we, in India, are witnessing history in the making. It is not often that one gets to see, and be a part of a revolution that is th... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• IEC in Public Health: What Can Public Health Learn from Steve Jobs?

  

  I was watching some cool advertisements of an online portal (OLX.in) and was wondering that why the public health messages that went out were so boring and... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Predatory Open Access: Part 3 – Research Spoofs and Publication Faux-Pas

  

  Ever since the Science paper came out earlier this week, the world of academia has been a-flutter with excitement and controlled outrage. Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Predatory Open Access: Part 2 – Peer Review in OA and Ethics of “Sting Op...

  Ever since the Science article about a sting operation to reveal the murky business that goes on in the name of Open Access journals came out, the academic worl... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Predatory Open Access: Part 1 – A Sting Op and Indictment of the OA Model

  

  In the last couple of days, an article from Science has literally gone viral in the scientific circles. It is yet another indictment of what Jeffrey Beall has... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Exhibitionism in Medical Education: The Brindley Lecture – Heralding A Sexual...

  

  The first boom in treatment for male erectile dysfunction came in the 1920s and 1930 when the Russian-origin French surgeon Serge Abramovitch Voronoff started t... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• US Shutdown: PubMed, Twitter, Trolls and Medicine

  

  The news in Twitterville and Facebookland is the US Government Shutdown. It seems pretty complicated if you ask me, with a lot of financial considerations... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Longitudinal Data Analysis: A Brief Introduction

  I presented this brief introduction to longitudinal data analysis in the Department of Community Medicine at the University College of Medical Sciences and... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Viva La Evidence: EBM + ColdPlay

  James McCormack is a Professor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and is passionate about... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• [NSFW] MRKH Syndrome: Legends, Urban and Historical

  Disclaimer: Contains strong language, sexually explicit in nature in order to explain bodily functions in a non-jargon manner. Maybe NSFW. This week we had a... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Estimates of Risk: A Short Revision

  As a part of the academic program for the residents in the Department of Community Medicine at the University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, we have... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• US Budget FY 2014: Did the US Govt Make USMLE Tougher for IMGs?

  

  Right at the outset, I shall admit that this is a topic that is a little beyond my “safety net” of knowledge and hence, I may be slightly off-target with some o... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Birthdays, Bonds and Being Bowled Over

  

  This has been one of the most raucous Junes yet. Tons of fun, including a 7-cake birthday celebration (almost a week long event, where I ended up cutting into... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Anti-Bloomberg Bill in the Soda Wars: Two Wrongs Do Not Make a Right!

  

  Since posting my rant on the now age old debate about paternalism (or as the people over in USA are calling it: Nanny State) versus public health, I have been... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• The Family Physician: A Dying Romantic Idea

  

  I have been known to lament the loss of the prestige of the basic medical degree (MBBS) in India. While you may or may not agree with it, the truth remains... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE