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Baby Blues
Whenever a life is saved, we thank at least two beings – one is of course the omnipotent, omniscient creator that most of us call God. But the other, more tangible being, is the doctor who attended to the patient medically. In that sense, doctors carry a huge burden of hope on their shoulders. And when the patient they are attending to is a child, the burden is considerably heavier. A few months ago we carried a story on the …
Infant Saviours
Newborn babies are a bundle of joy for their parents and others related to them. But often, when the baby is born with medical complications, panic replaces the usual delight like it recently happened in Thane. About two weeks ago, a newborn baby boy brought immeasurable joy to his parents. On the third day, he threw up a little green-yellow juice, and the parents casually informed their paediatrician, assuming that it was normal for the baby to burp out liquids. …
A Great Indian from Great Britain
Dr Kartar Lalwani’s simple appearance and his unpretentious demeanour hide the virtues that have made him one of Britain’s most successful entrepreneurs. This founder-owner of Britain’s first vitamin supplement company Vitabiotics is as unassuming as you can get. For one, he looks much younger than his age. At 72, this scientist-turned-entrepreneur displays an almost contagious enthusiasm for life – effect of consuming his own products, he suggests in all seriousness. For another, he’s actively involved in running Vitabiotics – he’s …
Vitamin King
On his early life and his foray interest in Vitamin technology I was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1931. After partition, my family moved to India. In Pakistan, my father ran one of the biggest wholesale and retail pharmacies of the time. In 1956, after my B.Pharm, I left the Indian shores and went to London for higher education. There I acquired a post-graduate degree in pharmacy before proceeding to Germany for my doctorate in Medicinal Chemistry. After a brief …
Ethics of Medicine
The recently held Annual Conference of the Indian Medical Association’s Thane chapter was the largest conference of its kind ever to be held in the city. The conference which started at 9:30 in the morning ended at 7:30 in the evening at the Gadkari Rangayatan, had a number of high spots for which it will be remembered. The highlight of the day was the felicitation of the 72-year old Dr. O P Kapoor, a Senior Physician who has decades of …
Bypassing the Bypass
Mark Twain said, "True love is the only heart disease that is best left to "run on" – the only affection of the heart for which there is no help, and none desired." But when the heart is plagued not by love but by excess cholesterol, emergency help is not only desired but is urgently sought! A few days ago Dr. Nitu Mandke, one of the world’s leading cardiac surgeons was at Thane to speak about the new frontiers in …
Healing Stars
With allopathic medicine’s failure in dealing with a number of health problems, people are increasingly turning towards other therapeutic systems for respite. According to Dr. Uday Kulkarni, an Ayurvedic Specialist, "Allopathic medicine is heavily skewed in favour of physical aspect of healing, while completely ignoring the mental and physical aspects." It is to address this extremely important issue that a novel system of therapy, called "Rashi Prakalp", has been introduced at Pandit Deendayal Smriti Ayurveda Panchakarma Kendra in Thane’s Yeoor …