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• 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

• EqualHealth Opens up Social Medicine Course

  From the EqualHealth website:Beyond the Biological Basis of Disease: The Social and Economic Causation of Illness is offered by EqualHealth in collaboration wit... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Dengue Vaccines: A Quick Overview

  The rising tide of dengue has slowed down in Delhi as the temperatures have started to dip. In the mean time, Mexico has created a ripple by approving the use o... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• PHFI to Provide Research Grants for Zoonoses-Related Research

  I have recently started working for the Roadmap to Control Zoonoses in India Initiative at the Public Health Foundation of India. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• ICMR STS 2016 Declared: BDS Students Supported No Longer

  

  The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has opened up calls for its Short Term Summer Research Studentships (STS). The details are available on their... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Doctors for You: Urgent Appeal to Volunteers for Chennai Flood Response, 2015

  

  The state of Tamil Nadu has witnessed the worst and most relentless rainstorm in a 100 years that started in November, 2015. More than 10 lakhs people are... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• The Apocalypse is HERE: Transmissible Resistance to Last Resort Antibiotic...

  

  Polymyxins are a group of bacterial origin cyclic polypeptides with antibacterial properties. It was isolated by a Japanese researcher in 1949 from a jar of... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Anthelminthic Drug Donation in the Epoch of Drug Resistance

  

  The Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance has published an interesting review article discussing the impact of scale up of drug donations to control... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Student BMJ Opens Call for Clegg Scholarships for 2016

  The Student BMJ hosts one of the most sought after and competitive medical journalism scholarships for medical students, lasting for 8 weeks, called the Clegg... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Despatch from South Africa

  

  I recently went to South Africa to speak at a workshop on research prioritization for zoonotic disease prevention and control (more details on it here: this sit... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• With the Monsoons, Kalazar Haunts the Terai

  

  Although Visceral Leishmaniasis (Kalazar) has been on the  decline in Nepal, this year, along with the coming of the monsoon, there has been a spike in the... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Tularemia Erupts in Wyoming

  Tularemia, a disease caused in animals and human beings by the bacteria, Francisella tularensis, can be acquired by man in many ways. Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Bulgarian Man Dies of Anthrax: Large Scale Disinfection Follows

  According to the news report of Focus-Fen, a man died of Anthrax in a Bulgarian village called Mlada Gvardiya in the coastal district of Varna, sparking off a... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE