Dr. (Prof.) B. M. Hegde
MBBS (Madras), MD (Lucknow), MRCP (U.K.), FRCP (Lond.), FRCP (Edin.), FRCP (Glas.), FRCP (Dub.), FACC (U.S.A.), Ph.D.(Hon. Causa), D.Sc.(Hon. Causa), FAMS
Cardiologist, Professor of Medicine, Physician-Scientist, Author, Former Vice Chancellor - Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Padma Vibhushan Awardee (2021), Padma Bhushan Awardee (2010), Dr. B C Roy National Awardee (1999)
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Articles: B. M. Hegde
NEW VIRUS HOLDS OUT NEW HOPE FOR AIDS PATIENTS!
A harmless virus, which is common in the population, GB Virus C or Hepatitis G virus, discovered about six years ago, is seen to allow AIDS patients to live much longer by slowing the progress of the disease AIDS.....................
OLD WINE IN A NEW OPAQUE BOTTLE!
Who is a well man? The present day answer would be “the one who has not come in contact with the modern medical establishment.”....................
ON DOCTORING BUSINESS DEALINGS
Monetary economy has been anything but a boon to mankind. Rather, it is only after the monetary economy became the rule mankind has been suffering all kinds of ills.......................
ON DOCTORING.
I do not remember why I wanted to be a doctor in the first place, but doctor I did become like any one of you and was as proud and .........................
ON DOCTORING.
Should I say how badly does the present medical education needs drastic changes to be socially relevant? A...............................
OUR BIOSPHERE
If one stretches one’s imagination a bit too far, one would realize that the whole bio-sphere, the so called earth,...............................
OVERDOSED AMERICA.
The caption is a borrowed one! The medical world is full of uncertainties for the common man. Lay people.............................
Philosophy of Healthy Living.
This world is a difficult place and life is not a bed of roses. Problems and difficulties are an integral part of life...................
PICK UP THE SIGNAL FROM THE NOISES.
Time was when diseases and dying progressively came down in all the developed countries. Ireland, for example,...........................
PILLS THRILL BUT COULD KILL
All our drug studies have major flaws. Recent revelations about antidepressants causing more suicides in the recipients and the COX2.........................
PLEA FOR A PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE
I am so much impressed by the response of Dr. Herman Jeggles from South Africa that I thought I should write more elaborately on.............
PLUS ULTRA.
One full-page article in one of India’s leading dailies, in its health section, caught my attention while travelling the other day.................
Poor pay for their poverty with their lives!
Until and unless the lowest of the low get the bare minimum needs of existence there is no meaning in............................
POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK.
During the freedom struggle, a young lady was arrested by the British police while picketing for the Quit-India Movement in 1942.............
POWER OF PRAYER
I was thrilled to witness a rare phenomenon happening in the holy city of Varanasi on the Mahashivaratri night...........................
A harmless virus, which is common in the population, GB Virus C or Hepatitis G virus, discovered about six years ago, is seen to allow AIDS patients to live much longer by slowing the progress of the disease AIDS.....................
OLD WINE IN A NEW OPAQUE BOTTLE!
Who is a well man? The present day answer would be “the one who has not come in contact with the modern medical establishment.”....................
ON DOCTORING BUSINESS DEALINGS
Monetary economy has been anything but a boon to mankind. Rather, it is only after the monetary economy became the rule mankind has been suffering all kinds of ills.......................
ON DOCTORING.
I do not remember why I wanted to be a doctor in the first place, but doctor I did become like any one of you and was as proud and .........................
ON DOCTORING.
Should I say how badly does the present medical education needs drastic changes to be socially relevant? A...............................
OUR BIOSPHERE
If one stretches one’s imagination a bit too far, one would realize that the whole bio-sphere, the so called earth,...............................
OVERDOSED AMERICA.
The caption is a borrowed one! The medical world is full of uncertainties for the common man. Lay people.............................
Philosophy of Healthy Living.
This world is a difficult place and life is not a bed of roses. Problems and difficulties are an integral part of life...................
PICK UP THE SIGNAL FROM THE NOISES.
Time was when diseases and dying progressively came down in all the developed countries. Ireland, for example,...........................
PILLS THRILL BUT COULD KILL
All our drug studies have major flaws. Recent revelations about antidepressants causing more suicides in the recipients and the COX2.........................
PLEA FOR A PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE
I am so much impressed by the response of Dr. Herman Jeggles from South Africa that I thought I should write more elaborately on.............
PLUS ULTRA.
One full-page article in one of India’s leading dailies, in its health section, caught my attention while travelling the other day.................
Poor pay for their poverty with their lives!
Until and unless the lowest of the low get the bare minimum needs of existence there is no meaning in............................
POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK.
During the freedom struggle, a young lady was arrested by the British police while picketing for the Quit-India Movement in 1942.............
POWER OF PRAYER
I was thrilled to witness a rare phenomenon happening in the holy city of Varanasi on the Mahashivaratri night...........................