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Just to note the passing of four years of existence of this blog

I really ought to put more effort into keeping this lively following the example of friends who have recently seen the light and friends who have been leading lights in the medical blogging world


Note: This post is related to the previous post requesting support for the NCHRH bill that is likely to be proposed in the Indian Parliament this year. Again, I would greatly appreciate any publicity that you can give for this issue. Please link, reblog, tweet, digg, stumble, or share in all the other myriad ways [...]


To overcome the acute shortage and uneven distribution of human resources in public health delivery system, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare aims at overhauling the current regulatory framework. Toward this end, it is proposed to set up a National Council for Human Resources in Health as an overarching regulatory body to achieve the [...]


Note: This post is related to the previous post requesting support for the NCHRH bill that is likely to be proposed in the Indian Parliament this year. Again, I would greatly appreciate any publicity that you can give for this issue. Please link, reblog, tweet, digg, stumble, or share in all the other myriad ways [...]


Note: This post is a request for support for a healthcare related bill that is likely to be proposed in the Indian Parliament this year. I would greatly appreciate any publicity that you can give for this issue. Please link, reblog, tweet, digg, stumble, or share in all the other myriad ways of Web 2.0.
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Radiology News


RSNA News: Early Radiology Exposure Could Lure Medical Students to Specialty: [via radRounds; Emphases are mine]

In a recent RSNA article, Dr. David Hovsepian MD and Dr. Terry Desser MD of Stanford’s Radiology Department … shed light onto what really leads medical students to choose a career in radiology. Often times, one wonders — how did [...]


via Medscape CME: Radiographic Pneumonia Uncommon in Children With Wheezing. [Registration required. Free]
Radiographic pneumonia is uncommon in children with wheezing but without fever. Hence the routine use of chest radiography in these children should be discouraged, according to the results of a prospective cohort study reported in the July issue of Pediatrics.

“The diagnosis of pneumonia [...]

Nicola Tesla
(10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943)
Nikola Tesla was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. He is best known for many revolutionary contributions in the field of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tesla’s patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current electric power [...]