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April 01, 2000
With regard to Professor Sanjay Mehendale's valuable article on 'Ethical considerations in AIDS vaccine trials', could I make afew critical comments? In preventive HIV vaccine trials, any participant who gets infected as a consequence of his or her participation in such a trial deserves the best ...
April 01, 2000
I have been following, for some years now, with great interest, and some amusement, the beliefs of Kothari et al in their crusade against oncologists. Let me state right now, that I enjoy reading their theories - but take them with the proverbial pinch of salt. I refer specifically in this letter...
October 01, 1999
I was very pleased to read the article by Sarita Agrawal. I am glad that articulate patients like her are finally making their voice heard.
October 01, 1999
I draw your attention to a notice in the publication Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals (1998; VI (4): 26A- 27A), announcing the details of a new 'educational programme' in cardiovascular surgery to improve capability in India and China for open heart surgery, cardiovascular anaest...
January 01, 2000
I refer to the letter by Dr. Eustace de Souza on "Dying with Dignity : a response."Â Dr. de Souza has been singularly consistent in obfuscating issues on this topic. He confuses euthanasia with 'mercy killing'. Killing is an act of violence against an individual, without his consent. Mercy is an a...
January 01, 2000
There is some truth in grievances raised by MARD: insufficient pay, poor living and working conditions, long working hours, and insensitive or absent redressal mechanisms. This was the organisation's 16th strike in as many years. Their frustration is understandable if conditions have not changed ...
July 01, 1999
Regarding our article, and Meenal Mamdani's critique of it, our article ought to have been titled 'Evidence-biased therapy' just to drive home the simple fact that modern medicine with all its diagnostic/therapeutic wizardry, treats, according to its knowledge of cancer, merely some evidence and ...
July 01, 1999
Did Prakash give his informed consent for his kidney to be removed and transplanted into his brother?
April 01, 1999
This is to bring to your attention an advertisement on the back page of the June, 1998 issue of the Journal of Occupational and Industrial Medicine, for the soap Lifebuoy Plus. The ad carries the claim that it has been approved by the Indian Medical Association.