Yogesh Jain,Raman Kataria
Yogesh Jain
Rural physicians have been practising the technique of emergency bleeding and transfusion called Unbanked Directed (to a specific recipient) Blood Transfusion (UDBT), which has been declared illegal, to meet the need for blood in rural and ...
Rajani Bhatia
Rajani Bhatia
In the spring of 2015, news media across the world displayed images of a young, South Asian American woman in handcuffs, her long, untied black hair flowing forward and shielding her face as a Caucasian male police officer led her into a US...
The New England Journal of Medicine: commercial conflict of interest and revisiting the Vioxx scandal [0.03%]
新英格兰医学杂志：商业利益冲突与对罗非昔布的重新审查
Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson
At a recent cardiology conference in New Delhi, the cardiologist Deepak Natarajan raised the concern that commercial conflicts of interest (COIs) were corrupting medical journals. Natarajan cited "manipulated" publications in The New Englan...
Sunil K Pandya
Sunil K Pandya
The International Society for Stem Cell Research has released its updated guidelines for stem cell research in order to provide "assurance that stem cell research is conducted with scientific and ethical integrity and that new therapies are...
Mohit Gupta
Mohit Gupta
With reference to the article "Passive euthanasia in India: a critique", authored by Ms Rohini Shukla and published online on August 5, 2015, I would like to make a few comments and highlight the following points. First, the author notes th...
Geetha Desai,Santosh K Chaturvedi
Geetha Desai
Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are common across health settings. These are defined as "physical symptoms that prompt sufferer to seek healthcare but remain unexplained after an appropriate medical evaluation". Expectedly, MUS are oft...
Diary of a daughter [0.03%]
女儿日记
Sheetal Pradhan
Sheetal Pradhan
This is a personal account of my struggle as a young medical student after my mother was diagnosed with an incurable illness; she subsequently passed away. Through this story, I share my experience with the medical profession from the persp...
The ethics of research on stored biological samples: outcomes of a Workshop [0.03%]
关于存储生物样本研究的伦理学成果研讨会
Manjulika Vaz,T S Sridhar,Sanjay A Pai
Manjulika Vaz
Research is often conducted using laboratory samples and data. The ethical issues that arise in a study involving residual samples are considerably different from those arising in a prospective study. Some of these ethical issues concern th...
Shaibya Saldanha
Shaibya Saldanha
After going through the case report, it seems there can be two possible explanations for the tubal ligation performed without the consent of the patient: first, absolute malafide intent and second, a medical mix-up with tragic long-term con...
Pushpa Dahiya,Latika Duhan,Sukhbir Singh et al.
Pushpa Dahiya et al.
Tubal sterilisation is practised all over the world. This safe, easy and highly effective, long-term method for birth control can be carried out during the hospital stay for either a normal delivery or caesarean section. In India, female st...