World Medical Association Assembly in New Delhi

Medical colonization of the new world.

THE discovery of America afforded the European nations vast opportunities for conquest and colonization, but two great powers among them, Spain and England, were foremost in taking up this challenge. Although both nations apparently had a similar background ofwestern culture, it must be remembered that their systems ofcolonization were rooted in different religious and political philosophies, a...

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International Journal of Biological & Medical Research Biological Determinants in association with Tuberculosis among populations of Delhi

The study was conducted amongst the newly diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis and extra pulmonary tuberculosis. Subjects treated under category I, II of Dots Centre in urban population of Delhi in different district. The data was collected from July-August 2015. The present study is cross sectional study which consists of total 569 in which population is segmented into settled and migrated po...

Time for an overhaul at the World Medical Association.

On 21 October 2016 Ketan Desai began his one year tenure as president of the World Medical Association. The WMA is formed and funded by 111 national medical associations and describes itself as “an organization promoting the highest possible standards of medical ethics.” The incumbent president, however, is a controversial figure who has been charged with corruption in a Delhi court. Desai has ...

New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase around the world: an eReview using Google Maps.

Gram-negative carbapenem-resistant bacteria, in particular those producing New Delhi Metallo-betalactamase-1 (NDM-1), are a major global health problem. To inform the scientific and medical community in real time about worldwide dissemination of isolates of NDM-1-producing bacteria, we used the PubMed database to review all available publications from the first description in 2009 up to 31 Dece...