Body, Mind, Medicine, Technology - Life & Beyond
State health and family welfare department has given nod to set up an eye bank in Bokaro General Hospital.
The eye bank would be the first in the district and will be a boon for thousands of residents and people from Koderma, Giridih and Bermo.
At present, the people have to go to Ranchi, Calcutta or even to Shankar Netralaya, Chennai, for donating or pledging their eyes.
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I have been working on a project recently that has been brought to the life few days ago. As owner and editor of my website boneandspine.com, I have always felt the need to have a central place where people could come together ask questions and get answers.
People still ask questions on boneandspine.com. In fact I get a lot of health queries. These are mostly in form of comments that my articles receive. People try to help each other but still it was not making any community. [Read more...]
I run a website called MedCareTips.com.
This website aims at addressing the problems in health and medical field by health workers and patients. At first the project was given to a team of doctor friends.
But the things did not go well and the project got neglected.
So 3 months back I took the entire control in my hands.
But things took a new shape.
My other site boneandspine.com started demanding a lot of time. Writing new posts, answering comments and all that maintainence stuff takes time.
My offline clinic also started getting busier and I could write only 2-3 times a week for this website.
The webs site Med Care Tips has grown manifold now. Visitors come and look for the articles. [Read more...]
www.healthcare.gov is a new health resource for American people which aims at answering those questions and give consumers a powerful new tool for navigating our health insurance markets.
Healthcare.gov will also give consumers the ability to see all their public and private health insurance options in one place for the first time ever. The Website is loaded with data from more than 1000 insurance carriers.
1 December is celebrated as World AIDS Day every year.
The aim is to raise the level of awareness and spread. The disease has killed millions and is still infecting many others.
Let us strengthen those who are fighting and who are helping the fighters.
As a doctor, one is trained to treat the disease. We are trained on disease diagnosis that begins from history and then clinical examination followed by required investigations.
I find it very painful when someone in the need of investigation refuses because she cannot afford it.
What do you do?
Investigations are costly. The investigations require equipments and gadgets that come at phenomenal cost.
It is a smooth work up when one nods yes and get investigated.
But the problem is for not so privileged ones.
This becomes a difficult situation. [Read more...]
Each day i am reading more an more people being infected.
The virus is spreading fast.
Protect yourself people.