Amar Jesani
Amar Jesani
The passing of Sunil K Pandya (SKP) on December 17, 2024, evoked memories of his remarkable life both as an individual and a medical professional in many physicians, patients and colleagues. In her tribute, Lopa Mehta has described him as "...
Discrimination against patients from Bangladesh: striking at the heart of medical ethics [0.03%]
对孟加拉国患者的歧视：打击医疗伦理的核心
Sunita Sheel Bandewar,Olinda Timms,Sylvia Karpagam
Sunita Sheel Bandewar
We draw attention to the World Medical Association's (WMA) International Code of Medical Ethics [1] as the benchmark of medical ethics, in the face of inflammatory and discriminatory statements issued by some senior Indian doctors against B...
Deep meditation as a valid "scientific" method: A flawed argument [0.03%]
深度冥想作为一种有效的"科学"方法：一个有缺陷的论点
Kishor Patwardhan
Kishor Patwardhan
An interventional neurologist recently responded to my two-year-old article suggesting that Ayurveda should be approached in a qualia-centric manner. He questions the fundamental assumptions of what he calls "Western" science yet tries to u...
Care before the Primary [0.03%]
初选之前的关照
Randall Sequeira
Randall Sequeira
Primary care with indigenous communities, just as with any other community, needs compassionate perseverance in individual cases but also touches on a communitarian value- system that can truly give insights into the community's self-determ...
Voluntary and rights-based family planning for women: Observations from a community-based study in southern India [0.03%]
基于妇女权利的自愿计划生育：来自印度南部社区研究的观察
S G Shruthee,Senthil Arasi,P Seenivasan
S G Shruthee
Background: Family planning programmes globally emphasise voluntarism and rights in contraceptive provision, shifting the focus away from fertility regulation. With the intent of measuring the policy-practice gap, this st...
Rohini Ann Mathew,Aniket Kumar,Premila M Wilfred et al.
Rohini Ann Mathew et al.
Background: Professionalism has been identified as a key competency for physicians to conduct, effective and ethical practice. The current competency-based medical education curriculum lays great emphasis on the developme...
Mathew George
Mathew George
The recent controversy surrounding Covishield vaccine and its rare side effects reported by AstraZeneca raises an important ethical question in public health practice. Public health ethics has not been perceived as distinct from medical eth...
G L Krishna
G L Krishna
The tridosha paradigm is foundational to Ayurveda. Ayurveda uses it to explain life processes, classify illness states, and facilitate therapeutic choices. The paradigm has an aspect that is heuristic and practical; it has another aspect th...
Period poverty in Bangladesh: Examining low-cost and sustainable solutions [0.03%]
孟加拉国的月经贫困问题：探讨低成本和可持续的解决方案
Aditi Tomar,Hoimonty Mazumder,M Mahbub Hossain
Aditi Tomar
Period poverty is a widespread public health challenge among women and girls in Bangladesh, marked by poor access to sanitation, limited access to menstrual hygiene products and low education about reproductive and sexual health. Addressing...
Navigating ethical dimensions in algorithmic radiology: A call for action to ensure representation of low-resource contexts [0.03%]
在算法放射学中导航伦理维度：呼吁采取行动以确保低资源环境的代表性
H Shafeeq Ahmed
H Shafeeq Ahmed
Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionised medicine, particularly radiology, transforming our ability to interpret complex imaging data. While traditional methods rely on subjective visual assessments, AI excels at recognising intricat...