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Tobacco free India: save our children.

Department of Endocrinology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai 400 012. T use and smoking is a leading preventable cause of death both in India and the World. It is not only tobacco related products alone, but also local Indian products like bidis, gutkas, pan masalas, which are the culprits. Bidis are Indian cigarettes, wrapped in tendu or temburini leaf and secured with a strin...

Save the Meniscus, A Good Strategy to Preserve the Knee

With increasing life expectancy, the demand for preservation of native articular cartilage is increasing to delay joint arthroplasties. In the knee, there are many different strategies to preserve the articular cartilage including but not limited to corrective osteotomies, chondral injury restoration, intraarticular injection of cells or growth factors(PRP). However, One of the most important s...

Save Our Children: Overcoming the Narrative that Gays and Lesbians are Harmful to Children

The United States has seen a dramatic shift in support for marriage equality for same-sex couples over the past decade, culminating in a recent gay rights victory in the U.S. Supreme Court.1 Also in the past year, several states have approved marriage rights for same-sex couples through the legislative or initiative process, reflecting the increasing cultural and political acceptance of marriag...

Commentary: Save the children: direct-to-consumer testing of children is premature, even for research.

While I am in agreement with Tarini, Tercyak, and Wilfond (2011) about the need for more research on children and genetic testing, I strongly object to their main point, which is that this research should include studies of children’s involvement in direct-to-consumer genomic testing (DTC GT). I believe that this recommendation is premature. Having children undergo DTC GT now would expose them ...

Harnessing the Power of Innovation to Save Mothers and Children: How 11 Innovations Could Save More Than 6 Million Lives