Disseminating valve repairs—a clarion call

Time for evidence-based Ayurveda: A clarion call for action

Several thought leaders in Ayurveda and health sciences infer that the sector is in crisis and facing formidable challenges. The inference is based on the unimpressive performance of the sector on all fronts, education, research, clinical practice, industry, and regulation. Reasons for the crisis are complex. Visible, right on the surface reasons, include proximate causes such as the conservati...

The Institute of Medicine committee's clarion call for universal coverage.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Consequences of Being Uninsured is to be commended for its work, which recently culminated in the release of six volumes on the subject. The concluding volume presents a vision for universal coverage and describes four options for achieving it. The options include an incremental approach, employer and individual mandates, and a single-payer plan....

Clarion call on issues of Ayurveda: Our responses

DOI: 10.4103/0975-9476.118675 Sir, I read editorial entitled “Time for evidence-based Ayurveda: A clarion call for action” with great zeal and seriousness. After considering every point raised herein for the present day status of Ayurvedic system of medicine, I do endorse word by word all that reasons and suggestions of Editor Prof. Patwardhan with the references of other stalwarts of the field...

Clarion call for histopathological clot analysis in “cryptogenic” ischemic stroke: implications for diagnosis and treatment

Diagnosis, treatment, and secondary management of cryptogenic stroke patients pose a formidable challenge. The scenario is further complicated in patients with native and prosthetic valvular heart disease. We present a case study of a 36-year-old man who received intravenous thrombolysis (IV-tPA) and endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for presumed "cryptogenic" complete middle cerebral artery infa...

A clarion call for action based on refined DALY estimates for South Africa.