Not the pharma industry! If government does its job, this wouldn’t happen. Government needs to do its basic duties - keep its people safe. Don’t look to the SC for that. If anyone needs “ripping” its government.

What exactly is cooking here?

The fake narrative being peddled on covid makes me so angry. As someone who went from helping others to desperately seeking oxygen within a day. As someone who was in the ICU for more than ten days. As someone who lost close friends. You can't rewrite my body. Or my memory.

Me and missus Historywali are 'The Saturday Story' in the Deccan Herald today. I wrote a fairly long 2300+ word essay on the challenges faced since we moved to live in the upper Tons Valley, Uttarakhand full-time 4 years ago. Online link to read 👇

deccanherald.com/specials/i-lef…

FOUR times in the past year, I've been on NIH grants that docked 'Investigators' points due to reviewers claiming that an earlier-career, woman PI lacks expertise in her specific domain of world-class expertise.

Pleading with everyone: PLEASE make sure you are not this reviewer

Latest evidence of utter failure of non-inferiority trials to set appropriate non-inferiority margins. Clinicians should ignore these margins & statistical claims of non-inferiority & instead think how their patients would balance benefits/harms/burdens. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37421996/

Thank you, Arun Bothra 🇮🇳
We look forward to the support of the people of Odisha as we reach out to those who need our care.

Our new study highlights the overlooked challenges faced by the transgender & disability communities in vaccine rollouts, emphasising the imperative of an intersectional approach & addressing communication inequities as pivotal factors in restoring trust expresshealthcare.in/news/new-study…

Majority of antibiotics prescribed are to manage clinicians’ anxieties rather than treat patient conditions.

There was a special conjuction of cresent moon and Pleiades constelation tonight on 11th April 2024.
I planned the conjunction over spituk monastery with the help of The photographer ephemeris & also the fact that I know my village well🙂

A very quick processing (1/2)

I remember as a medical student being encouraged to perform pelvic exams on anesthetized patients. It felt wrong and I wish I had spoken up.

Good to see HHS guidance now requiring consent for pelvic, breast, and other sensitive examinations.
statnews.com/2024/04/01/inf…

What fantastic news from Canada - new $500M fund to improve #mentalhealth care for young people!

Here's hoping other governments recognise this growing, and global, need.

Breaking/

Appalling news that Department of Health and Social Care has decided to stop funding mental health services for hospital doctors from
Monday.

When I was broken & traumatised during Covid, sessions with an NHS Practitioner Health psychologist helped me back on my feet.

How can the govt suspend this?

Our new systematic review is out in Lancet Global Health. People with disabilities in LMICs have double the mortality rates of their non-disabled peers! More evidence that Global Health must focus on people with disabilities and leave no-one behind thelancet.com/journals/langl…