Thermoplasty
Life Desk :According to a recently conducted nationwide survey, the burden of asthma is estimated to be around 18 million in India. The study also...
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Working for a cause
Katharine Brooks :From all the headlines these days, it seems like everyone has a cause-a significant area of passion, interest, or concern. And whether your...
Is work making you ill?
Caroline Kamau and Asta Medisauskaite :In a large study of physicians in the United Kingdom [1], we examined the many problems that doctors struggle with:...
Skills for future success in business
Marcia Reynolds :Technology has changed how we communicate and will continue modifying what we call effective communication. Many of our connections will be virtual; the...
Policy accountability on women, adolescent health
Life Desk :Bangladesh has strong commitments on population and health goals and has made important progress in many fronts. Nevertheless, critical challenges loom including slowing...
It’s Not Easy Being Green
Allison Kelly :We are bombarded with so many terrible things facing our world that if you’re anything like me, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. The...
Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
Prof Dr Hamida Begum :A toddler by the age of 10-14 years when gradually becomes an adolescent (teen age) -then various changes occur in her...
Danger of relying on intuition
Robert Smither :Earlier this year Business Week profiled Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, a company with annual revenues of $13 billion. Benioff, who describes himself...
The Positives of Dyslexia
Robert Chapman :Dyslexia is typically framed through a medical-deficit model. Take the following definition: “Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin....
Mass Shootings, Guns and Suicide
Brendan Kelly :Last August, at least 31 people died in the US following mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas. In response, President...
Curing Cancer, Curing CancerPhobia
David Ropeik :September is cancer awareness month for advocates promoting concern about leukemia and lymphoma, childhood, gynecological, ovarian, prostate and thyroid cancers. Those honourable advocates...
Age-Gap Romance: Recipe for Stigma or Success?
Wendy L. Patrick :We have all seen them, or met them: couples that are obviously from two different generations. When we are introduced, the visual...