Healthcare
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A million donors needed (registry for stem cells)
A report on the first Indian thalassemia patient to get stem cells from an unrelated donor, with the poster’s call for more registrations and for NGOs to work with religious…
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The “hospital of death”
An article on infant deaths at Kolkata’s B.C. Roy children’s hospital, which the poster reads as a sign of deep rot in Bengal’s health system, set against the memory of…
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Polio free!!! but many “question marks” remain
A post celebrating South-East Asia’s polio-free certification while warning that the disease has spread from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Syria, with a profile of India’s last case.
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Another Day, Another Shia Doctor Killed…
A personal note mourning the killing of Dr Babar Ali, a district health officer and anti-polio campaigner shot in Attock district, the second friend killed in a year, with no…
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Dementia
A note on a Nature Medicine study using a blood lipid test to predict Alzheimer’s with 90 per cent accuracy, with the poster asking what that figure really means.
