Impact of Microbes and Vitamins on Modern Medicine

The growth of medical science was never smooth and linear. While the 1880s saw Koch’s postulates lead to the rapid discovery of most bacterial causes of disease, the 1930s witnessed the identification of deficiency diseases. In the 5,000-year history of medical science, no two decades have had such a profound impact on modern medicine.

How Oxytocin created the Facebook !

Evolution has so designed that the spontaneous delivery in humans also needs assistance of a third person ( not necessarily a doctor) to cut the natal cord, clean the face and nose of the baby, turn and put it on mother’s breast for its first feed. The mother in a lithotomy posture is totally helplessContinue reading “How Oxytocin created the Facebook !”

The woman who had discovered the molecular structure of DNA

Rosalind Franklin. Most likely you have not heard her name. – Who discovered the Double Helix structure of DNA ? Watson and Crick. Every child knows the answer.  – Wrong. The 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was awarded to James Watson, Francis Crick and  Maurice Wilkins for their discovery of molecular structure ofContinue reading “The woman who had discovered the molecular structure of DNA”