While the historical exclusion of women, particularly minority women, from sports has been noticed and recorded, there is a paucity of initiatives to foster an inclusive environment that welcomes their participation and uphold the ethics of fairness and inclusion. ...
Kay Redfield Jamison, an author, clinical psychologist, and professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, grapples with bipolar disorder — shaping her professional focus. She dealt with manic-depressive disorder as a professor of psychiatry and a succe...
There’s a weight we carry, unseen, unnamed,
A quiet ache, a heart untamed.
It lingers in the daylight’s glow,
A shadow that refuses to let go.
The global sport for development and peace (SDP) sector is loosely comprised of various stakeholders that organise and advocate for the role of sport in meeting the goals of international development and peace building. The foundational claim of SDP is that when or...
In this book, Saurav Kumar Rai explores the different dimensions of the revivalist movement in Ayurveda, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in the United Provinces (present-day Uttar Pradesh). He also examines the status of Ayurveda immediately followin...
Following the pharmacovigilance crises of 2004 involving the use of Vioxx and antidepressants in minors, medicine regulators turned to big data, also called real-world evidence, to support their efforts to establish the safety of treatment protocols. In many areas ...
In the one year that I spent in Israel as a student of public health from October 2023 to September 2024, I was stunned and disappointed by the ignorance and inaction of the academic institutions towards a state-sponsored genocide as the violence in Gaza escalated ...
This case study involves a successful medical aspirant with 88% mobility disability who was denied admission by the Disability Assessment Board (DAB). After failing to get relief from the High Court, the candidate challenged the decision in the Supreme Court. The C...
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 that is purely speculative ...
Amrita Bagchi, Healthcare in Post-Independence India: Kolkata and the Crisis of Private Healthcare Services. Routledge, London, 2023. Pages 201. ISBN 978-0-367-732-7; DOI: 10.4324/9781003169475