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Covid

Covid Vaccines

How are COVID-19 vaccines being developed? Several drugmakers have announced that they are moving to Phase 2 of COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials; the Oxford vaccine by Serum Institute of India backed by Adar Poonawala has started Phase 3 clinical trials. What do these phases mean? Should we think that we are close to a getting …

Covid

Primum Non Nocere

No other drug, at least in the early phase of Covid pandemic, evoked as much interest, publicity, blind and demand as Hydroxychloroquine did. It took a couple of well -designed randomized controlled trials to indicate that the drug does not work, and is associated with serious adverse events when used to prevent or treat Covid. …

Covid

Hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19: Can we go back to science?

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has been the biggest buzzword across the world lately. Until December 2019, this was a meek drug, used mainly by rheumatologists, internists, and dermatologists for inflammatory diseases. Its cousin Chloroquine has been the most popular drug for malaria. We have known and used these drugs for decades. The antiviral properties of these drugs …

Class of 1973

GMC Nagpur. Class of 1973

This book profiles the art and craft of the class of 1973. A class that is 48-year-old now. It seems like it was only yesterday that we got into Government Medical College Nagpur. 45 years after our admission, when we paused to reflect on how we changed and evolved between 1973 and 2018, we realized …

MGIMS Sevagram

Palliative care at Sevagram

Two years ago, Dr. Sankha Mitraโ€”an oncologist who is keen to reduce inequity, injustice and alleviate healthcare-induced povertyโ€” had visited Sevagram. He spoke a sentence that was an eye-opener for the audience. โ€œIn India, the poor die in agony in neglect; the middle-class die in agony in ignorance and the rich die in agony on …

MGIMS Sevagram

Repairing the heart defects

One in 200. A chance that a mother would deliver a baby with heart disease. And some of these heart defects are serious enough to warrant early intervention. A piece of good news is that some holes in the heart, stenosed valves and abnormal connections between the great arteries can be repaired without open heart …

Obituary

Bhau: Tryst with Tiger

1962. Balwadi, a small village bordering Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, those days was enveloped by thick and dense forests that offered a home to quite a few panthers. These predators time and again would cross the thin boundary between the forest and the village and could be spotted in the village. Their sight would evoke …

Sevagram

Ashutosh Raghuvanshi

Ashutosh Raghuvanshi. A shy, self-effaced boy, polite to the fault, travelled countrywide for almost three decades not only to become a cardiac surgeon but also to head some of the largest hospital chains in the country.  He belonged to the MGIMS class of 1980. This month, much to his pleasant surprise, he found himself playing …

MGIMS Sevagram

First cardiac Surgery at MGIMS

On September 4, Dr. Pankaj Pohekar, the cardiac surgeon and his team performed MGIMSโ€™s first heart valve replacement surgery. He replaced two heart valves with mechanical ones. Govind (name changed) a 48-year-old farmer from Sindi (Railway) in Wardha district was recently detected to have a heart valve that barely opened and another valve that leaked …