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Indian Medical Industry – “Swindling Silently & Swiftly !”

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Recently I was walking around the shop to purchase the medicine, which was prescribed by my doctor. It’s been a while since finding that medicine has become a tough row to hoe for me both in walk in pharmacies & online portals. At last when I couldn’t find it, the pharmacist offered me its alternative within same price range and same salt. Although I’ve been his familiar & old patient and I trust him by all means, but there’s something about this incident that I can’t ignore, i.e.: Partisanship . One can visualise the drastic impacts of partisanship in Indian medical profession just by the fact that now it’s being labelled as ‘ Indian Medical Industry ’, or at least this is what it has been made. The mere word Industry instead of Profession imparts the sense of business replacing what used to be a practice. Hadn’t it been for 2nd wave of Covid-19, led by Wuhan Virus, it’d have been still left unnoticed. But not anymore, let’s dwell into its ins & outs. MEDICINES

What goes behind in making of an Olympic medalist ?

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A significant percentage increase of medals secured (111.11%) from the Rio Summer Olympics in 2016 to Tokyo Olympics in 2020 puts a smile on our faces. The memories of Subedar Neeraj Chopra's historic javelin throw on August 07, 2021, drastically lifted India in medals tally from 69 to 48. As much as the first medal (Gold to be precise) in athletics for India, first after 41 years in hockey, etc are caramelizing in our eyes, their preparatory phases are something which should be discussed with the same zeal. • Mission Olympics 2020 :- After the appalling run in the Rio Summer Olympics in 2016, Indian Army launched an initiative of contributing in the same, thus, launching Mission Olympics 2020. In this, potential and enthusiastic kids were selected and groomed for international sporting events. This included – Diet , Training , Equipments , etc. They were actually given employment in the army along with salaries and their ranks and promotions were dependent

Hiroshima Day – An Unforgettable Past !

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The U.S. Secretary of Defense (SecDef) is the leader & CEO of the U.S. Department of Defense, the executive department of the U.S. Armed Forces and currently it is being held by General Lloyd Austin. General Austin recently hinted towards changing the nuclear football (Briefcase containing nuclear codes which are approved by U.S. President) to a much safer and less fancy one. Talking about Nuclear Football, you might be pondering over how many countries have used nuclear weapons till date ? The answer is - Only one (U.S.A.) That's right, Hiroshima at 08:15 am, on August 06th, 1945 became the experimental ground for the ‘ Manhattan Project ’, led by Robert Oppenheimer. On this day, U.S. ‘ Boeing-29 Superfortress Enola Gay ’ heavy bomber dropped approximately a 64 kg enriched uranium fission bomb named “ Little Boy ” on Hiroshima City, which was equivalent to 12,000 to 15,000 tons of TNT over an area of 13 square km. The other one being “ Fat man ” dropped on Nagasaki

Genetic Counselling – Need of the hour !

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Don't you think the time has come for people to now match their Karyotype Analysis along with their kundlis prior tying knots ? Why ? Because of Genetic Disorders. One of the recent trends in Healthcare and Human Welfare is ‘ Genetic Counselling ’, whose main aim is to identify individuals or families who may run a high risk for genetic disorders. Such genetic disorders may arise because of the exposure of individuals to certain special circumstances (eg : Radiation Effect) or due to related inheritance. The Committee on Genetic Counselling 1975 defines it as “ A communication process which deals with the human problems associated with the occurrence or the risk of occurrence of a genetic disorder in a family ”. By this process a trained person tries to help an individual or a family :-  To understand the various aspects of genetic disorders. The contribution of heredity to the disorder. The probability of its future occurrence in the family. Possible steps to be taken

7 Deadly sins leading to Hell.

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All the religions or cultures that acknowledge the existence of heaven and hell have a common protocol, ie., The Journey of a soul – Life on Earth - Penance in Hell - Reunification with God in heaven. Except Sikhism, all religions acknowledge the existence of heaven and hell as distinctive realms, which are :- • Ancient Religions of Egypt ( Duat ), Greece ( Realm of Hades demarcated by River Styx ), Hinduism; Jainism; Buddhism ( नर्क / Nark common for all ), Judaism ( גֵיהִנוֹם / Sheol in Old Testaments ) and Zoroastrian ( Duzakh ). • Abrahamic medieval religions like Christianity ( Hell ruled by Lucifer in New Testaments ) and Islam ( جہنم / Jahannam ). The Journey of a Soul is broadly determined by either of these two methods :- • Collective scaling of all deeds and decision relies on majority. ( Zoroastrian ) • Penance for every bad deed. ( Hinduism, Jainism, Christianity, etc ) All these religions have a set of common vices that you're aren't morally supposed t