Urgent need for planetary health education for healthcare professionals and students in India [0.03%]
印度医疗专业人员和学生迫切需要接受地球健康教育
Anandita Pattnaik,Manjulika Vaz
Anandita Pattnaik
The current climate crisis has had a significant negative impact on human health across the globe including India. Climate change is leading to global heating, rising sea levels and more severe extreme weather events such as floods, cyclone...
Reminder in scarlet: balancing empathy and detachment in oncology [0.03%]
浅绛提醒：肿瘤科医学中共鸣与 detachedness 的平衡
Revathy Krishnamurthy
Revathy Krishnamurthy
This article explores an oncologist's journey from emotional vulnerability to practised detachment. A transformative moment, prompted by a poignant photograph of a patient in a scarlet saree, confronts the author with the emotional intricac...
COMMENTARY: Protecting healthcare privacy: Analysis of data protection developments in India [0.03%]
评论：保护医疗健康隐私：印度数据发展现状分析
Paarth Naithani
Paarth Naithani
Patient privacy is essential and so is ensuring confidentiality in the doctor-patient relationship. However, today's reality is that patient information is increasingly accessible to third parties outside this relationship. This article dis...
Thalia Arawi
Thalia Arawi
This article looks at the October 2023 war on Gaza in the context of the effects of wars on healthcare systems. I will begin with a brief historical overview of the so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict to clarify the special status of the...
Joel Lexchin
Joel Lexchin
Studies based on the United States Open Payment database have demonstrated an association between the promotion and prescribing of opioids. An equivalent database does not exist in Canada; therefore, I undertook a narrative review of the li...
COMMENTARY: Public health ethics and the Kerala Public Health Act, 2023 [0.03%]
评论：公共健康伦理与2023年喀拉拉公共健康法
Sylvia Karpagam
Sylvia Karpagam
This commentary looks at the Kerala Public Health Act (KPHA), passed on November 28, 2023, through the lens of public health ethics. While the Act recognises the importance of prevention and strengthening of social systems, it falters in th...
A quantitative analysis of publication trends in Iranian medical ethics and a comparison with EMRO countries [0.03%]
伊朗医学伦理出版趋势的量化分析及与EMRO国家的比较
Mahshad Noroozi,Pooneh Salari,Bagher Larijani
Mahshad Noroozi
Background: Evaluating publication trends in a research area helps assess organised scientific efforts in the particular academic field. This study aims to evaluate and compare trends in medical ethics publications in the...
Power, policy, and transgender identities: A case study of gatekeeping by mental health professionals in accessing gender affirming surgeries in India [0.03%]
权力、政策与跨性别身份：印度精神卫生专业人员把关行为的案例研究以获取性别肯定手术医疗服务
Harikeerthan Raghuram
Harikeerthan Raghuram
Background: Transgender individuals seeking gender-affirming surgeries (GAS) are often denied or delayed by mental health professionals (MHPs). Studies on the gatekeeping of GAS have been mainly conducted in the Global No...
Saviour siblings in India: A reminder of our existing challenges and biases [0.03%]
印度的救赎兄弟姐妹：我们现有的挑战和偏见的提醒
Salik Ansari,Harikeerthan Raghuram,Anant Bhan
Salik Ansari
Saviour babies or saviour siblings are conceived specifically to be sources of biological materials - ranging from cord blood, stem cells or even organs - to save another child, usually an older sibling, who is suffering from a disease like...
The impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the research portfolio and approval turnaround time at the Kenya Medical Research Institute [0.03%]
新冠疫情对肯尼亚医学研究所研究组合和审批周转时间的影响
Enock Kipchirchir Kebenei,Daisy Cheruiyot,Gideon Cornel Msee et al.
Enock Kipchirchir Kebenei et al.
Background: The Covid-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented impact on many sectors globally including research. We assessed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the research portfolio, and on the approval turnaround time ...