Pranab
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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 -
Louisiana Reports First West Nile Cases in 2015
Louisiana has confirmed the first cases of West Nile Virus this year. Out of the three confirmed cases, two were of the neuroinvasive type, which is the more... Read more
Posted on 18 July 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
The Daily Bhaskar Post: A Symptom of a Deeper Illness
So in the past couple of days I have been reading a lot about a “reputed” Daily having spouted a venomous piece about how patients should protect themselves... Read more
Posted on 18 July 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Tick Borne Encephalitis Attributed to Powassan Virus in Canada
Hastings Prince Edward Public Health (HPEPH), in a media release, has reported that there is a suspected case of tick-borne encephalitis under investigation at... Read more
Posted on 17 July 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Madagascar Reports 8 cVDPV1 Cases
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative website has revealed that this year there has been a sharp rise in the number of cVDPV associated cases, which have... Read more
Posted on 17 July 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Zika Virus Hits Brazil
A case of Zika virus infection, caused by a virus which is a member of the flaviviridae family, has been reported from Brazil, making it the first reported... Read more
Posted on 17 July 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
A Response to Anandabazar’s Indictment of Doctors-in-Training: Attitude Vs...
So, I have been meaning to blog for a while now, but as all my online blog-ey friends know, I have been suffering from a massive attack of Bloggers’ Block. Read more
Posted on 19 June 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Derry City Football Team Hit by Mumps: Points to A Deeper Problem
The Derry Journal has reported that several players in the Derry City football team has come down with Mumps. The team boss has said something, according to... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Reemergence of Murine Typhus in Galveston, Texas, USA
A study published in the CDC’s Emerging Infectious Diseases journal has pointed to the fact that there is a possibility that murine typhus, a disease caused by... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2015 HEALTH, MEDICINE