Some Medical Problems Ahead

Some problems of medical education.

Some medical problems in pregnancy.

Pregnancy is an elegant masterpiece of physiological adjustment and as such is well tolerated by most healthy women. When the tenuous divide between the physiological and pathological state breaks down, however, it can become for the mother and her foetus a life-threatening event calling for skilled obstetrical and medical management.. One of the more significant events contributing to improved...

Some Medical Problems in China To-Day

queue starting to form for the out-patient session to-morrow. The men are coughing and spitting, and making themselves as comfortable as possible against the wall, whilst the women squat with undersized infants tied on to their backs. By the morning the crowd will have grown to a great throng waiting for the hundred-odd new tickets that will be given out so that they may consult a doctor. Many ...

Medical pluralism – The challenges ahead

The paper explains the need and urgency for an intellectual debate on Medical pluralism. This debate has to take place in an environment of positive thinking, openness to understand diverse knowledge systems and a felt need to look for better option to fill the gaps of conventional medicine and above all the importance of taking healthcare to the cross section of the community which is affordab...

Phototropism: some history, some puzzles, and a look ahead.

Though few and far between, phototropism studies through 1937 established a number of important principles. (1) Blue light is the active spectral region. (2) The phototropic stimulus is perceived by the coleoptile tip, and the consequences of the stimulation progress down into the growing region. (3) Lateral transport of auxin mediates the curvature response. (4) The reciprocity law holds for f...