Dr. Ramakanta

Hyper-ventilation

Lucy was a beautiful girl of 11 years. She was studying in a prestigious international school here. She is a bit on the healthier side and quite attractive. She had a bout of hyper-ventilation in the school prayer hall and it being a VIP school, the authority promptly took her to the nearby cardiac centerContinue reading “Hyper-ventilation”

Synthetic Happiness

Can happiness be synthesized ? [ Human beings can actually have experiences in their heads before they can happen to them in real life. They can feel mortal fear and get drenched in sweat even before the cause has materialised. This is a trick that none other animals have. _ Dan Gilbert ] Today, asContinue reading “Synthetic Happiness”

The unpaid care giver.

Behind every successful Rehab program, there’s this sacrifice of an unpaid care giver. Yet, no credit goes to them. Let’s put some care into our health care. When a person suffers from stroke and paralysis, he becomes bed ridden for 6 month at home. He takes food in a tube, passes urine by a tubeContinue reading “The unpaid care giver.”

The Tylenol Controversy

( Although these days, car makers are regularly recalling defective vehicles, in the 1980s it was unheard of. The story of first product recall in history.) Tylenol ( acetaminophen) is a drug for fever, manufactured by Jhonson and Jhonson. It’s a fast cousin of our crocin etc. In the 1980s, it was the leading pain-killerContinue reading “The Tylenol Controversy”

Man flu

Men actually experience respiratory viral illnesses differently than women. Men are reported to take longer to recover from flu-like illnesses than women. Researchers have long known that men and women experience pain differently. After all each woman has a billion cells different from a man. They have X chromosome in each cell in place ofContinue reading “Man flu”