The recent ban on e-cigarettes has been the talk that hover’s around every conversation in the public health and public...
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By Edmond / September 23, 2019
By Edmond / September 14, 2019
In defense of Bishop Derek – Belagavi
There was a recent furore with regard to the saffron robe being worn by the Bishop of Belagavi who embraced...
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By Edmond / September 12, 2019
How Punjab will lose a generation to drugs
Drug business brings a turnover of over $500 billion, only next to petroleum and arms trade. Over 190 million people...
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By Edmond / August 29, 2019
Can the techno-consumptive culture fuel Indian healthcare?
Evidence based medicine is slowly being strengthened into technology driven medicine. The workshops that are being held on robotics, artificial...
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By Edmond / August 29, 2019
Long term health consequences of Cyclone Fani
Human altruism gets faded out, once the newspapers and primetime television channels stop covering the disaster. The communities are left...
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By Edmond / August 29, 2019
Global health: A philosophical narrative in real time
Fond recollection of historical times, serves to remind us that healthcare is integral to human survival. The problem of hubris...
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By Edmond / August 29, 2019
Tobacco, public health and the battle of Waterloo
One might wonder what the Battle of Waterloo has got to do with public health and tobacco in the first...
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By Edmond / August 29, 2019
Healthcare 2019: The age of Rahul Gandhi & Narendra Modi
The General elections 2019 is fast approaching and political out-reaches have started. In all those popular conversations, dinner table...
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By Edmond / August 29, 2019
Lessons in Indian healthcare: What PhD supervisors & medical school teachers must know
I speak for those doctoral candidates who are scared what their supervisors think, I speak for those post graduates in...
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By Edmond / August 29, 2019
Papaya leaf extract must aid in dengue fever management
Dodging the mosquito is not absolutely easy as vector bionomics gets complicated with climate change and neighbourhood community practices, which...
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By Edmond / August 29, 2019
Indo-American global health diplomacy can influence risk management outcomes
India and the United States of America have one thing in common, among the many other things and that is:...
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By Edmond / August 29, 2019
Global health is global wealth: Our world
I returned recently from my trip in the EU region furthering healthcare agenda in length and breadth in selected nations...
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By Edmond / August 29, 2019
Personal practices, public consequences: India’s nutritional war
“It is appropriate to remember that India’s richness lies both in the soul and the soil and whose intention for...
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By Edmond / August 29, 2019
India will need to do more than Ayushman Bharat for an Arab Spring in Healthcare
“Protecting the health of those who have no wealth will require an iron will from a governance perspective. This also...
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By Edmond / August 29, 2019
Idea of ‘Door-step Doctor’ for the new age
“The door-step doctor will revolutionise modern medicine and will inject an infectious consciousness of change among the populace. The will...
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By Edmond / August 29, 2019
Defining affordable healthcare in an increasingly unaffordable world
In a recent meeting of mine with a very senior & learned official in India’s Ministry of Health, I stumbled...
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By Edmond / August 29, 2019
Understanding Nipah virus & public health consequence
Nipah Virus infection ( NiV) has surfaced in the southern belt of India and is doing the talks deeply. Nipah...
Read MoreGrowing drug resistance and the future of global pharmaceutical companies
“The time has arrived when we face a scary future due to antibiotic resistance which is deeply invisible to the...
Read MoreHow channelizing committed healthcare CSR budget can work miracles for India
When CSR budgets are directed towards addressing health issues in India, miracles happen. These miracles are not always visible, but...
Read MoreThe future of Indian healthcare lies in academic-field based partnership
As institutions and industries around the world continue to reform, re-think and re-position themselves in the digital age with changing...
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