WORLD DIABETES DAY & A COMMON MAN

Contributed by  Dr Arif Maghribi Khan MBBS .MD   World diabetes day is observed every year on 14th November. According to WHO website “This year’s theme, ‘access to diabetes education’, underpins the larger multi-year theme of- access to care”. I am not an endocrinologist so I will just talk in terms of what education means to […]

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Do you feel always tired ? Rule out Anaemia.

  Contributed by Dr.Vipul Agarwal MBBS, MD (Internal Medicine), FAGE Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine Mahatma Gandhi medical college, Jaipur E-mail: vipul.msrmc@gmail.com linkedIn/ Instagram/ facebook Studies suggest at least one third of the Indian population suffers from anaemia, with the prevalence being much higher in adolescents, especially girls. Anaemia is the term for when […]

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Dietary interventions in PCOD

Contributed by  Dt Quratul-Aan  (alfatah223@gmail.com)  Case study: PCOD and central obesity  Saleh(name changed) ,25 year old,female with an initial weight of 107.01kg ,height of %’4.2’’ with BMI of 39.21,sedentary worker,non vegetarian food pattern  Client had oligomenorrhea ,medicine induced cycles,facial acne ,hirsutism,increased waist hip circumference ,insomnia  Methods : The client was provided detailed consultation taking in […]

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Moving from tissue biopsy to chromosomal analysis (Chromopsy)

Contributed by Dr Ghulam Nabi. Professor of Surgical Uro-oncology. Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee, United Kingdom  Linkedin : Prof Ghulam Nabi   As we move forward in Medicine, precision of diagnosis and treatment improves. Obtaining tissues for microscopic examination ( biopsy) by expert clinician (pathologist) is considered as definitive way to confirm diseases such as […]

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Case of the month : Syncope on exertion :can he go Home?

Contributed by DR PAREY MOHD FAROOQ MD MMSC ,MRCEM Department of Emergency medicine University Hospital of Morecambe bay NHS foundation trust United Kingdom   Clinical scenario :  A 78 year old male brought into the emergency department by ambulance .Paramedics report that bypassers called EMS after witnessing a man collapsing in a park . As […]

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