Medicines provide therapeutic benefits but also cause harm due to inappropriate use and adverse drug reactions (ADRs). ADRs may cause serious health consequences, imposing a significant burden on healthcare systems. Ensuring patient safety by minimising risk requir...
Public health professionals and researchers in India with allied health and non-health backgrounds are routinely undercompensated and not treated on par with their counterparts from a medical background. In this article, we use the practice of discipline-based wage...
We are compelled to address a persistent and troubling issue in Indian medical publishing: the widespread favouritism in editorial decisions. Many Indian journals, rather than serving as impartial scientific platforms, frequently operate in ways that benefit their ...
Peter C Gotzsche. Is psychiatry a crime against humanity? Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2024. 215 pages, ISBN: 978-87-85273-00-0.
Nilanjana Bhowmick, How Not To Be A Superwoman: A Handbook For Women To Survive The Patriarchy, Penguin Random House India, March 2024, 240 pp, Rs 399 (paperback) ISBN: 9780143464181
Joanna Moncrieff. Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth. Flint Books; 2024. Pages: 336, INR 1545 (paperback). ISBN: 9780750999336
This personal narrative discusses challenges faced by MBBS graduates in Kerala’s public healthcare system. Based on observations as a government medical officer, this essay examines a culture where professional skills and humane values are often overshadowed by a s...
In March and April 2025, the Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES), the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME), the Health, Ethics and Law (HEaL) Institute, and the Christian Medical College Vellore (CMCV) co-organised the 10th National Bioethics Conference on “...
The deaths of children in Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh from cough syrup adulterated with diethylene glycol (DEG) have laid bare the gaps in drug regulation, from the manufacturing site down to the pharmacist. They have exposed, as hollow, the governments’ and drug ...
As public health practitioners with experience of working in conflict zones, including in the Gaza Strip, we felt compelled to write this Commentary. The relative silence of the international public health community regarding the ongoing mayhem and genocide by Isra...