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February 16, 2021
Public health emergencies require real-time, accurate information to guide effective and timely responses. This calls for rapid and timely publication of information to promote both its scientific validity and societal value. On the other hand, rapid publication poses a potential threat to the in...
February 16, 2021
The findings of a collaborative study in Uttar Pradesh, India, by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Family Health International (FHI) and Johns Hopkins (JH), and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), have been tweeted out from the IFPRI Twitter handle (Se...
February 16, 2021
Violence against medical professionals and destruction of hospital property by frustrated patients and their relatives occur frequently in India (1) and in other countries (2, 3). However, harassment of healthcare workers by the police has, so far, not been an issue in the Indian healthcare syste...
July 29, 2020
Training in medical ethics has been made mandatory in the undergraduate curriculum (1). The Medical Council of India (MCI) in 2002 released its revised Code of Ethics, a regulatory document on professional conduct, etiquette, and ethics of doctors (2).
Keywords: Medical ethics, knowled...
Keywords: Medical ethics, knowled...
July 29, 2020
Although all age groups are at risk of contracting Covid-19 disease, older people are facing the highest risk due to ageing and underlying health conditions. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, 8 out of 10 deaths reported in the US have been of adults 65 years o...
July 29, 2020
It is not wrong to say that ethical issues have been given limited attention by professionals in laboratory medicine as compared to other fields of medicine (1). The most ethically problematic laboratory examinations are those dealing with genetic testing, autopsies, prenatal and HIV examinations...
July 29, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has created a situation demanding rapid ethical review of research on various aspects of the pandemic, while maintaining social distancing norms. Research during an outbreak is important for understanding the disease and its management and allows scientists to study the dise...
July 29, 2020
The advent of modern nursing in colonial India was in the middle of the 19th century (1). This was linked with the arrival of nurses from the west, generally women with a deep rooted Christian cultural heritage, with most being religious nuns or Christian converts
April 25, 2020
The website Sci-Hub (http://sci-hub.tw/) (1) offers access to medical and scientific research papers from all over the world to anyone ─ for free. So, what's the catch? There isn't one, except for the fact that this is an initiative by an enterprising hacker, Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan, a Kazakh...
April 25, 2020
Gopichandran and Subramaniam in their editorial in IJME have appreciated the intensive Chinese efforts to contain the Covid-19 outbreak and wondered if other “weak” and developing health systems will be able to do the same