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Banjot Kaur

@Banjotkaur

Health reporter @TheWire_in+@TheWireScience | Ex @down2earthindia,@timesofindia | Twtr hibernation: 2010-19 | ViewsOwn | RT≠endorsement| [email protected]

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Rema Nagarajan(@RemaNagarajan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In every live case at NIC 2017, cardiologist doing procedure announced brand name of the product he was using and extolled its virtues
Companies love such doctor-salesmen and together they oppose regulation
And docs claim they care for quality🙄
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/doctors-…

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Banjot Kaur(@Banjotkaur) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is unbelievable! But then…

In any case it had become v difficult to file an application using it, but what has happened now is beyond comprehension. I just hope they say it was a glitch and they would bring it back.

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AAP Ka Mehta 🇮🇳(@DaaruBaazMehta) 's Twitter Profile Photo

MUST WATCH

We RT many speeches, but this one is special.

Speech by Mr. M Shankaran after successful Landing of

Listen to the man who led the Mission and has been pivotal to it's success along with his entire team

INDIA successfully soft landed on the Moon…

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Anant Bhan(@AnantBhan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Can medical conferences be organized without pharma funding?
Yes, it is possible. If the organizers & participants are committed to focusing on academic
One example is NationalCancerGrid meetings- have been to a few. Usually organized at Tata Memorial Centre with high quality
Pramesh CS

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Manisha Pande(@MnshaP) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The newspaper did not carry any corrigendum or follow up news on the “surgical strike” report even on Wednesday, ie today, one day after the news was published.

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Seema Chishti(@seemay) 's Twitter Profile Photo


Intelligence Bureau lands up at Ashoka University, Wants to Probe ‘Democratic Backsliding’ Paper - Siddharth reports.
thewire.in/education/inte…

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Rema Nagarajan(@RemaNagarajan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

100% dependence on pharma money👇
IMA president Dr Sharad Kumar Agarwal--“How can doctors keep themselves informed with new knowledge if such conferences are not organised — and for that purpose we need money. Otherwise from where would the money come?”
thewire.in/health/doctors….

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Seema Chishti(@seemay) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NMC Guidelines: Doctors' Orgs Find 'Novel' Ways to Organise Conferences Without Pharma Backing. Banjot Kaur reports thewire.in/health/doctors…

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Ranvijay Singh(@ranvijaylive) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'दैनिक जागरण' ने पहले पन्ने पर फेक न्यूज़ छाप दी.

बताया कि भारत ने पाकिस्तान पर फिर सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक कर दी.

अब सेना ने इस खबर को फेक बताया है. सेना ने कहा- ऐसा कोई ऑपरेशन नहीं हुआ.

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Tanay Sukumar(@TanaySukumar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

3. Poverty remains a monetary measure, on which we lack official data since 2011-12.

4. No index is perfect: the selection, definition, weighting of criteria can always be debated.

Yet, indices can help — as long as (and only if!) we know what they mean and what they don't.

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Tanay Sukumar(@TanaySukumar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

... the data is based on NFHS 2019-21, for which survey fieldwork was complete in 22 of the 36 states/UTs by Feb 2020.

2. It's 'multidimensional' poverty (more on that in my explainer today), NOT poverty.

It's only a *complement* to poverty data, as Niti Aayog itself says.

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Santam Chakraborty(@learningonco) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Burhan Anant Bhan You do understand that on the pretext of providing state funded insurance the government has essentially stopped funding public health care centers. Except creating new AIIMS for optics.

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B.(@NamelessWander4) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is what happens when the government completely gives up on healthcare. Businessmen float terrible ideas to increase profits without bothering about evidence or patients.

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