“Thanatophobia”: Physician’s perspective of dealing with patients with fear of death

“Thanatophobia”: Physician’s perspective of dealing with patients with fear of death

January 29, 2018

Chandramouli Balasubramanian1, Malathy Subramanian2, Sarasa Balasubramanian2, Amit Agrawal3, Savitha Raveendran4, Chandrasekaran Kaliaperumal51Department of Neurosurgery, NHS Kings College Hospital, UK, London.2Department of Educational and Mathematical Psychology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.3Department of Neurosurgery, Narayana Medical College, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India.4Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh…

Mobile phone mania: Arising global threat in public health

Mobile phone mania: Arising global threat in public health

June 27, 2016

Ramalingam Peraman1, Subramani Parasuraman21College of Pharmacy, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates.2College of Pharmacy, AIMST University, Bedong 08100, Malaysia.DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.184712 Sir, Owing newer technologies in communication, electronic devices such as mobile phone, computer, tablet, and other high-tech devices, have turned out…

Decoding of disinfection regime used in revascularization

Decoding of disinfection regime used in revascularization

January 28, 2016

Ganesh Ranganath Jadhav1, Priya Mittal21Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Sinhgad Dental College and Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, India.2Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Centre for Dental Education and Research, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.175109 ABSTRACT Sir, Nowadays…

Reaching the limits of reform: medical education and the Hellenic academic institutions facing the euro-crisis

Reaching the limits of reform: medical education and the Hellenic academic institutions facing the euro-crisis

January 14, 2015

John Botis1, Gregorios Chatzilymperis1, Konstantinos Kalafatakis2, Nikolina Skandali3, Alexandros Skandalis4, Naoum Mylonas5, Apostolos Zarros61Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.2College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.3Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, University…

Tissue antinuclear antibodies in renal biopsies of patients with systemic connective tissue disorders

Tissue antinuclear antibodies in renal biopsies of patients with systemic connective tissue disorders

January 14, 2015

Seema Chhabra, Shreekant Bharti, Ranjana Walker Minz, Ranjeet Bhardwaj, Neelam PasrichaDepartment of Immunopathology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.149250 ABSTRACT Sir, Although localization of immunoglobulins (Igs) has been observed in nuclei of nonkeratotic cells in skin biopsies from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE),…

Methodological accuracy and firm interpretation of enzymatic analysis: The usefulness of Bisswanger’s “Practical Enzymology”

Methodological accuracy and firm interpretation of enzymatic analysis: The usefulness of Bisswanger’s “Practical Enzymology”

July 8, 2014

Apostolos Zarros1, Stephanie D Boomkamp21 Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK2 Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.136293 Sir,Despite the enormous technological and scientific progress…

Study of life expectancy in urban Pondicherry

Study of life expectancy in urban Pondicherry

February 18, 2014

Sonali Sarkar, AM Veerakumar, Umakant ShidamDepartment of Preventive and Social Medicine, JIPMER, Pondicherry, India DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.127350 Sir, Life expectancy at birth is one of the indicators of the health status of a community in addition to being a proxy measure for several dimensions like adequate…

Inform, Conform, Reform and do not Deform: A Four Axons’ Framework for the Hellenic Academic Institutions Facing the Greek Crisis Challenge

Inform, Conform, Reform and do not Deform: A Four Axons’ Framework for the Hellenic Academic Institutions Facing the Greek Crisis Challenge

February 20, 2013

John Botis1, Antonios Chatzigeorgiou2, Gregorios Chatzilymperis1, Konstantinos Kalafatakis3, Eleni Katsouni4, Naoum Mylonas5, Nikolina Skandali6, Alexandros Skandalis7, Eirini Vagena8, Apostolos Zarros91Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.2Department of Internal Medicine III and Institute of Physiology, University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany.3College…

Biomedical Research – From Ideation to Publication

Biomedical Research – From Ideation to Publication

October 3, 2012

Pitchai BalakumarDepartment of Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmacy, Rajendra Institute of Technology and Sciences (RITS), Sirsa, Haryana, India.DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.101938 Research is the intellectual process undertaken to become a scientist, and to discover, interpret, and revise the current knowledge of the different facets of…