Plagues have afflicted us humans for thousands of year. They have wiped out civilisations and changed the course of our history. It is assumed that both Greek and Roman civilisations petered out after repeated attack of such plagues. Aztec and Mayan civilisation were wiped out not by the invaders but by the killer plague thatContinue reading “The Pandemic year ( part -1)”
Category Archives: Ideas of health
How effective would be our vaccines against the Covid Variant strains ?
We always knew that the Covid virus is going to mutate. In adverse situations, it is going to change its structure to survive against such odds. That is Darwins law of Natural Selection. It is called “the law of the Survival of the fittest.” Andreano E et al. in an experiment in Italy, serially passedContinue reading “How effective would be our vaccines against the Covid Variant strains ?”
January 31, 2020 in the Epidemiological Profile of India
-Prologue- Kolkata, Thursday, January 23, 2020 The student had reached kolkata on the night of January 23. She had travelled to Kochi the next day from where she went to her hometown in Thrissur. She was 20 years, healthy but was worried. She had reasons to be. Next day, she walked to the nearest primaryContinue reading “January 31, 2020 in the Epidemiological Profile of India”
The Secrets of Life
On February 28, 1953, Sir Francis Crick and Dr James Watson stumbled upon a double helix in their lab which can save the Secrets of Life in the Ribo Nucleic Acid codes. They called it DNA. Today we know that every secret of our life is stored in the triplet codes of DNA in theContinue reading “The Secrets of Life”
The Blalock_Taussig story
( In memory of all the Male Nurses : fondly called Sura Dada, Madu Dada etc. of my Alma mater who have taught me venous access ) In medical college, our paramedical staff are our first Guru. So was Vivian Thomas in the Johns Hopkins. You can have enough trouble if there’s a hole inContinue reading “The Blalock_Taussig story”
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