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February 16, 2021
The question of students from marginalised communities dying by suicide in higher education institutions (HEIs), including medical institutions, persists across India. Most would agree, regardless of differences about the underlying causes, that such deaths demonstrate the abysmal failure of poli...
February 16, 2021
EDITORIAL Covid-19 vaccines: The public must have confidence in the science Sandhya Srinivasan DOI:https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2021.006 Keywords: Covid-19, vaccine hesitancy, transparency, immunisation, safety, efficacy As the Covid-19 vaccine is rolled out across India, a number of reports hav...
July 29, 2020
The Indian Council of Medical Research Consensus Guidelines on ‘Do Not Attempt Resuscitation’ (DNAR) were published in the April 2020 issue of the Indian Journal of Medical Research (1), and simultaneously in the National Medical Journal of India (2). It is a timely effort at resolving a long-sta...
July 29, 2020
Covid-19 has been one of the worst public health calamities faced by humankind in over a century. As of July 23, 2020, there have been 15,633,159 confirmed cases and 635,422 deaths reported, worldwide (1). We are six months into the pandemic, and yet we know little about the disease. The role of ...
April 25, 2020
The introduction of AETCOM (attitude, ethics and communication) (1) is seen as an effort at incorporating Medical Humanities (MH) within the medical curriculum. For the first time, India’s medical curriculum includes modules on the patient-doctor relationship, helping doctors to address ethical d...
April 25, 2020
China reported cases of a severe form of pneumonia in December 2019 from Wuhan city, Hubei province. The virus causing this illness was identified as the novel Coronavirus 2019, which has now been christened Covid-19. The illness is characterised by fever, cough, body pain and in a few cases, pro...
November 06, 2019
We are witness today to a democratic country violating multiple rights of an entire state of its own citizens. Starting from August 5, 2019, it is now over two months that the state of Jammu and Kashmir has been under a lockdown, and there was also a communication blockade. Initially all modes o...
May 09, 2019
Marcellus’ observation in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1) that “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” (Act 1, Scene 4) could well be applied to medical education in India today. and could be followed up by repeating another statement earlier in the play, “and I am sick at heart.” (Act 1, Scene...
May 09, 2018
The enactment of the New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019 (hereafter New Rules), on March 19 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India (1), is the use of power delegated to the political executive by sub-section (1) of section 12 and sub-section (1) of section...
January 01, 2019
The report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on the international medical device industry adds to the growing documentation of health scandals in India in recent years. A comprehensive picture emerges of manufacturers selling untested products at usurious rates; ...