The winding road

The Long and Winding Road

Day by day the competition get tougher, the exams harder and the textbooks larger. Indeed, it is a long and winding road for the high school graduate seeking university admission to study medicine. The graduate desiring to excel must prepare to travel a tortuous path laden with obstacles. In Iran, in order to obtain admission to medical school, one must place approximately among 3622 of the 442...

The long and winding road.

Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology Service, Clinica y Maternidad Suizo Argentina and De Los Arcos Sanatorio, Buenos Aires, Argentina Heart Rhythm Service, Kingston General Hospital, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Cardiology Service, Hospital Cosme Argerich, Buenos Aires, Argentina Valley Health System and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA Department of Cardiology, Fi...

The winding road to cardioprotection

Over the past two decades, the mortality from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has been reduced dramatically. Timely reperfusion is the most powerful intervention for limiting infarct size, alongside antiplatelet, antithrombotic and anti-ischemic therapies. Paradoxically, reperfusion itself can also exacerbate myocardial injury, so called ‘‘reperfusion injury’’, which can cause additional card...

the long and winding road

A Long and Winding Road

Gita Sen ([email protected]) is at the Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and was a member of the Planning Commission-constituted High Level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage. India’s steps towards universal health coverage began in the early years after Independence but they faltered because of various factors, including resource constraints. The conte...