This golden age of science and technology has contributed leaps and bounds for human longevity, quality of life, and quelling everyday inconveniences. Modern Medicine has prevented millions of deaths through the eradication of life-threatening diseases to treatments for nutrition deficiency. Although it might seem ironic to praise modern medicine when […]
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The approval of imatinib, a type of cancer growth blocker called ‘tyrosine kinase inhibitor’ twenty years ago, was considered to be “the birth of precision medicine” by Louis DeGennaro, President and CEO of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. A decade later, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved ipilimumab, the […]
Continue ReadingCOVID – 19 has provided us with an opportunity to change the current healthcare system as more and more people at present are seeking healthcare facilities at home, this is called telemedicine. For decades, the medical field has undergone vast revolutions and the new “digital medical treatment” methods have soared […]
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The placebo effect: is it really mind over matter? Or is there something more to it? As J.K Rowling wrote in her renowned book, “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
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Rivash Rijal With a new wave of the novel coronavirus hitting the world, many countries have had to go into lockdown again. Whether you wore a mask when the pandemic started is no longer relevant but to ensure that no harm is caused, you definitely should wear a mask. So […]
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The effects of COVID-19 are far more outlasting than the millions of infections we know of today. The present scenario has spread not only geographically through respiratory droplets, but also through media deep into our thoughts and actions. No two people in the world today are experiencing the pandemic in the exact same way. Here is how the pandemic is not merely affecting our lungs, but also our minds.
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“Money can’t buy happiness,” while there is some truth to this that’s not quite all of the story. Scientific insight into money and its relation with happiness….
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Today, almost the entire world is in complete lockdown, quarantined and isolated from the outside world. The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) or infamously known as COVID-19 has plagued the entire world with almost 2 million confirmed cases worldwide and 100,000 deaths.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken up the world in an unprecedented way. With over a million cases confirmed (as of 3rd March 2020) and tensions rising as people are dying and economies are tanking, the cure to the disease seems to be the saviour for the restless few in quarantine […]
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While the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak is relatively vivid, an aspect that is often undermined is the psychological consequences that the lockdown, isolation and the SARS-CoV 2 virus itself has on the human mind.
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