Another strike

Platelet activation: yet another strike against routine TRANSFUSION.

In the past, anaemia in patients with established coronary artery disease, especially acute anaemia as a result of bleeding, has been treated with a relatively liberal use of allogenic red blood cell (RBC) transfusions. RBC transfusions are believed to increase oxygen delivery by increasing haemoglobin concentration. Therefore, transfusion would seem to be a logical approach, as anaemia is asso...

To strike or not to strike.

Strike action - what then?

Resident doctors on strike.

‘Non sibi sed omnibus’. Not for one but for all. This is the overriding principle in the mind of all doctors while practising their vocation. The care and welfare of patients are the primary considerations of the medical profession. Seldom do you see a doctor who prioritizes his interests before those of his patients. If patient care is the issue, he will disregard any amount of inconvenience c...

Why migraines strike.

For the more than 300 million people who suffer migraines, the excruciating, pulsating pain that characterizes these debilitating headaches needs no description. For those who do not, the closest analogous experience might be severe altitude sickness: nausea, acute sensitivity to light, and searing, bedconfining headache. “That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an a...