Ground Reality

Far away from immaculate and cutting edge technology equipped operation theaters in the United States, a lanky missionary and eminent surgeon Dinesh Vyas is running around Institutions in India to sensitize people for prehospital trauma care to save millions of human lives. Fired by missionary zeal, Dr Vyas, during his brief sojourn in India recently, engaged with those who can change the trauma care narrative and envisioned that a high tech training program could bring the desired change. “We can transform the trauma centers into survival sites rather than hopeless units.it needs slight but structured training to those who handle trauma victims on daily basis like security persons. It is not exaggeration but unpalatable reality that over 1.3 million traffic related deaths occur per year globally. This is apart from 20-50 million people sustaining permanent injuries or disabilities”, Says Dr. Vyas, Program Director Surgery Residency, Associate Professor,...

If you are an obese, and going for bariatric surgery,there might be a chance of increased sexual desire post-surgery, but it has no guarantee of sperm quality improvement. Findings of a research suggest that men who have undergone bariatric surgery as a long-term way of losing weight might also benefit from increased testosterone levels post-surgery. However, there is no evidence that the sperm quality of a patient improves.  These are the findings of a comprehensive review in the Springer journal  Obesity Surgery , which is the official publication of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO).   The research was led by Shahzeer Karmali and was a collaborative effort between Yung Lee of McMaster University and Jerry Dang of the University of Alberta in Canada. Hormonal changes, a drop in sexual functioning, and less satisfaction in bed are among the many downsides of obesity. Obese men...

I first realised intelligence of an elephant when I had, during childhood, read a fictional story of immense friendship between the mammoth animal and a tailor who once lived in a village. The plot had it that elephant used to pass through market place in the village daily, and the friendly tailor always fed him no sooner it had protruded the trunk into the shop.One evening , the tailor was in an offensive mood and instead of feed ,he pricked the trunk with a needle. The animal quietly retreated though it writhed in pain.Next day, the once friendly elephant returned with filth and mud filled in the trunk, and splattered the dirt over neatly stitched and pressed clothes of the shop. Though the moral of the story was Tit for tat . It spoke volumes about the elephant's intelligence. Many such eye opening stories of elephants' intelligent mind come forth. But in a recently published research paper it was found that the Asian elephants have knack of mathematics.  Asian el...

“Make no mistake that the capabilities of a man are of no use what so ever to the society unless these are practiced in the domain of high personal integrity and with a humane face of science and technology”. It was crux of the advice offered by the Prof (Dr.) PB Sharma, Former VC Delhi Technological University at the convocation address of Dr Rammanohar Lohia Avadh University recently. In his address to the graduates, Dr Sharma, currently VC Amity  University said the new knowledge age, promises “abundance of prosperity alongside with happiness in plenty” provided we use our science and technology capabilities for the service of man and Mother Nature, strike the vital harmony between man and nature and create a beautiful world around for peaceful co-existence with our fellow citizens beings in this country and also in the countries of the world around.   He continued to say “it is here the age old emphasis on peace, prosperity, truthfulness, purity of mind and wo...

HE WAS writhing in pain and agony was writ large on the face, but a healing hand protruded from a free medical camp and assuaged his pain with medication and plain litany of precautions and exercises. The Sunday panacea was not handy for such middle  aged  patient alone, but for about 100 others too. They had turned at the camp organized by counseling and awareness for the treatment of rheumatism and Autoimmune disease and its prevention methods.  Yashoda Super Specialty Hospital, Kaushambi Ghaziabad, on Sunday, September 16, organised a one-day free arthritis and rheumatology consultation camp by senior Rheumatologist  of the Dr. Sauvik Das Gupta, formerly at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. Free consultation was provided to more than 100 patients who participated in the camp. Dr. Sauvik Das Gupta informed the patients, that rheumatoid arthritis and disease can be identified through tests and the side effects of this can c...

Carving out a niche in annals of the global education architecture, New York University School of Medicine has said that it will pay the tuition of all its students regardless of merit or financial need, becoming the first major American medical school to do so.   NYU made the announcement at its annual White Coat Ceremony, where new students are presented with white lab coats to mark the start of their medical education.. “Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of our trustees, alumni, and friends, our hope—and expectation—is that by making medical school accessible to a broader range of applicants, we will be a catalyst for transforming medical education nationwide,” said Kenneth G. Langone, chair of NYU Langone Health’s board of trustees But if NYU can do that why not others? The step has ignited imaginations across the globe, and   some has started flagging the issue.   In India too, the burden of tuition fees in professional courses is becoming unbea...

Ahead of 72nd Independence Day , an eminent academician broached me with an idea of flagging road accidents issue for major reforms to save lives and aftermath tragedies afflicting victims’ families. He was ostensibly oblivious of the fact that my own family is smarting under perpetual agony and pain for five years after my elder brother’s talented son, who had come from Singapore after completing his business management course and was getting prepared for a lucrative job in India, was fatally run over by a speeding car. The DPS RK PURAM pass out Parth Bajpai was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead. The case was dismissed as hit and run incident, and the killer driver is still at large. Surprisingly, street cameras mounted near the central market, accident site were removed same evening and no footage was traced. My elder brother Pankaj resolved to bring unknown killer to justice, and hooked all his financial resources. His pleas to various bodies to fin...