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Effective Anti-Snoring Devices for Getting Rid of That Snoring
If you are one of the classic noisy sleepers, you are well aware of how it affects not only you but also your sleeping partner. Snoring is a serious medical... Read more
Posted on 05 July 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Long Term Health Benefits Of Adopting Organic Juices In Your Routine
Let’s start with some reality checks. In order to increase sales and maximize profits many retailers have started supplying processed food often adulterated wit... Read more
Posted on 04 July 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
The Speed and Accuracy of Pathogen Diagnosis Can Be Improved with Homogeneous...
Microbiological culture is a common diagnostic method for the detection of infectious disease. However, it is not a perfect tool. Read more
Posted on 02 June 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Follow These Simple Steps To Manage Sleep Apnoea And Snoring Problems
Your behaviour in the morning speaks volumes about the amount of sleep you got last night. Are you constantly suffering from daytime fatigue? Not getting... Read more
Posted on 02 June 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
How Warming Climates Dry up Mountain Stream Watersheds
Water supplies in the western regions of the US rely on snow melt from mountainous areas. Snow forms an important part of the hydrological cycle, effectively... Read more
Posted on 02 June 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Why Your Medical Practice Needs A Website
There are plenty of medical practices out there that survive very well without a website. Doctors and other primary care specialists have large client bases... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
PSM as a Career Option: #4 Will I Regret Choosing PSM If All I Want is a Clinica...
Each year, around the time of AIPG counseling, I get a fair number of emails asking about PSM as a career option. These question are mostly from students who... Read more
Posted on 08 April 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
PSM as a Career Option: #3 What Do We Learn in MD PSM and Does It Help Later in...
Each year, around the time of AIPG counseling, I get a fair number of emails asking about PSM as a career option. These question are mostly from students who... Read more
Posted on 23 March 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
PSM as a Career Option: #2 Is Delhi the Best Place for Doing MD in PSM?
Each year, around the time of AIPG counseling, I get a fair number of emails asking about PSM as a career option. These question are mostly from students who... Read more
Posted on 22 March 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
PSM as a Career Option: #1 Why Choose PSM?
Each year, around the time of AIPG counseling, I get a fair number of emails asking about PSM as a career option. These question are mostly from students who... Read more
Posted on 21 March 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Another NEJM Gem: The Doctor’s Dilemma
I always rather enjoy the narrative perspectives that the NEJM publishes every week, and some of those hit very close to my heart. Read more
Posted on 27 February 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Research Round Up #3: Ebola, Homelessness, Homeopathy, IBS, Research Parasites,...
I have been traveling a lot over the past couple of weeks, plus, had to meet a tough deadline on submitting a proposal for antimicrobial surveillance, making th... Read more
Posted on 01 February 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Weekly Research Round Up #2: January 8-14
Gl(intro)1. Series on Antimicrobial Resistance in The Lancet:The series on the rising tide of antimicrobial resistance had been published by The Lancet online... Read more
Posted on 14 January 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Aphorisms #2: Antimicrobial Resistance
The prescient words of Alexander Fleming, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1945 for his seredipitous discovery of the antibiotic,... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Aphorisms #1: Antimicrobial Resistance
I am working on a document outlining strategies for monitoring and surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (hence the recent plethora of posts on the topic! Read more
Posted on 11 January 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Turning to the “Infected Jelly” to Treat Ebola
The NEJM has come out with a very interesting paper: Evaluation of Convalescent Plasma for Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea. The explosive outbreak of Ebola Virus... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
If Colistin Goes, Can Carbapenems Be Far Behind?
I wrote about the disaster-in-the-making discovery of transmissible resistance to colistin, a last resort antibiotic, when the Lancet Infectious Diseases... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Weekly Research Round-up #1: January 1-7
This is a recap of all the research articles I found interesting, especially those related to infectious diseases, emerging and reemerging infections,... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Ronald Fisher and Some Thoughts on the p-Value
One of the most discussed, debated and controversial issues in medical research is the p-value. I came across Ronald Fisher’s take on this matter in his work,... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2016 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Towards Universal Health Coverage: The Lancet Commission and Some Personal...
The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health (CIH) has come up with an ambitious framework (1) and an editorial comment accompanying it (2) in the recent issue... Read more
Posted on 24 December 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE