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Cancer: The Emperor of Maladies – Suvobrata Ganguly

Statistics tell us that “reported age-adjusted incidence rates for cancer are still quite low in the demographically young country”, India that is. “Slightly more than 1 million new cases of cancer are diagnosed every year in a population of 1·2 billion”. In age-adjusted terms that represents a combined male and female incidence of about a …

Audiology aiding hearing – Loud and Clear! Suvobrata Ganguly

Audiology the branch of science that studies hearing, balance, and related disorders, is relatively of recent import – the use of the terms “Audiology” and “Audiologist” in publications has been traced back only as far as 1946 – though, the related ailments and attempts at their treatments have been known to man since time immemorial. The …

Gastroenterology : Facts too hard to Digest –  Suvobrata Ganguly

Gastroenterology – Diseases affecting the gastrointestinal tract, which include the organs from mouth to anus, along the alimentary canal, are the focus of this specialty. In plain speak,  it is the branch of medicine focused on the digestive system and its disorders. The level of care that is provided to patients in high end private hospitals and nursing homes in India is at par with the best …

Diabetology: Saheb, Biwi aur Insulin – Suvobrata Ganguly

Diabetes mellitus has already reached potentially epidemic proportions in India. What is worse is the fact that there are no immediate hopes of abetment. On the contrary, rapid urbanization, sedentary lifestyles, increasing levels of stress and completely unhealthy food habits are aiding its march. We are neck to neck with China for the top slot …

Emerging HealthCare trends – Suvobrata Ganguly

The last ten years have witnessed a tectonic shift in the way medical science has progressed, reaching out to those in the need with state of the art critical care. While advancement in the science of medical care and the way ailments are diagnosed and treated has literally gone ballistic, the major break-though has been …

READ! For we learned to write it: Report writing workshop by the Expressions Group, BESC- Saurav Rai

Event: Report writing workshop’15 Date: 25th August, 2015. Time: 1 pm to 2:30 pm Venue: NCR (BESC) Sweeping the unpleasant discourse of formality under the rug, presenting a workshop just as important but not as serious as the other ones, welcoming a humorous mentor who repeatedly did not give a “damn”, Expressions, the media collective, …