Myth of “Allopathy treats only symptoms and does not cure the disease”
Modern medicine does cure. Allopathy is a misnomer. Traditional knowledge systems do have a role in mainstream medicine.
Category: Health
Podcast on the Carvaka Podcast – Pseudoscience and Alternative Medicines
Did a freewheeling podcast with Kushal Mehra on some controversial and touchy topics:
Celebrating our Scientists, Reliving The Trauma
The Vaccine War: Movie Review Rating: 8/10 The latest offering by Vivek Agnihotri is a daring venture: a tribute to the scientists at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) who played a vital role in India’s battle against the COVID pandemic. The movie is an adaptation of Balram Bhargava’s book Going Viral. It sensitively […]
The “pure veg” conundrum
Humans are omnivores. Their bodies can digest all kinds of foods. So why is there so much fuss over veg and non veg? Read to find out.
“Now show me your face!”
The first time I saw her face was when she was being put under general anaesthesia for her surgery. Even when she visited my consultation room with her husband for a neck swelling, she was wearing a top-to-toe burkha with gloves, covering every visible part of the body, following the directions of the holy book […]
Thank you, FPJ and Dr Harish Shetty!
The Free Press Journal kindly listed me among the “Angels of Mumbai” in 2021 for a few things we did to help our fellow citizens during this COVID pandemic. I am pleasantly surprised, and a bit overwhelmed at the acknowledgment. It is only a small contribution in a colossal global catastrophe running over the past […]
Time to abandon mRNA vaccine boosters?
mRNA vaccines are a great technological advance, but the medium-term results are proving disappointing. When a virus enters a human body, it faces a formidable line of defence, known as the immune system. Various weapons are thrown at the virus, such as antibodies that bind with the virus and destroy it, and cells that can […]
Podcast on Omicron variant : how worried should we be?
Did a podcast with the kind folks at The Pulse on the new Omicron variant, and what we in India should expect in the coming months.
Six “COVID control” policies that should be strongly opposed
Since the start of the COVID pandemic, there have been several policies that were used early on, and that make very little sense now that much more information is available about viral transmission. But they continue to be used by various state governments in varying degrees. This article will call out some obvious ones that […]
Booster dose for COVID vaccination: Needed or Not?
It is well known that two doses of COVID vaccination – whether it is Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca/Covishield or Covaxin – offer excellent protection against moderate and severe COVID (95-97%) but not against mild and asymptomatic disease (28%). Booster doses have been a matter of speculation since the early days of COVID vaccination when it was […]