by dolly@docmode.com | Nov 2, 2020 | Doctors, Healthcare System
A decade ago family doctors were found in every nook and corner of India. People would go to the clinic with their medical problems to clinics hoping to see the familiar faces of their family doctors, who gave them just the right treatment based on medical history and...
by dolly@docmode.com | Oct 30, 2020 | eye problems
The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) coordinates World Sight Day to bring attention to the global problem of avoidable blindness and visual impairment. It is an annual awareness day which takes place on the second Thursday of October. The...
by dolly@docmode.com | Oct 30, 2020 | COVID-19, Healthcare System
Economies and communities benefit from a healthy and strong healthcare system, and it is striking to see how health systems around the world failed to maximise people’s health long before the COVID-19 pandemic, a crisis that further highlighted the pressures and...
by dolly@docmode.com | Oct 30, 2020 | Genetic Medicine, Genomics, Technology
This year’s winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry harnessed the humble bacteria’s long-evolved protection mechanism to construct an efficient gene-editing method that some think is revolutionizing medicine. Jennifer Doudna, PhD, and Emmanuelle...
by dolly@docmode.com | Oct 30, 2020 | medicines, Pharma
Most infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera, typhoid, pneumonia have turned into superbugs due to the life-long usage of the same antibiotics over the decades. India stands at the top of the list of the world’s highest number of bacterial infections....