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
TOBACCO GIANTS WIN A DECISIVE BATTLE IN COURT.
In an unusual, but unfortunate, ruling the US Supreme Court in a 5-4 majority judgment in March 2000, delivered in the court by the senior judge,...........................
TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIETY THROUGH EDUCATION
Does society need transformation? It is a million dollar question that begs more questions than answers at the moment........................
Tricks of the Trade
My book on Hypertension-the other side of the Coin was published in 1993 by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai. This book has a foreword by a leading British hypertensinologist......................
TRUTH WILL TRIUMPH.
When I first conceived the clinical pharmacology unit for Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, where I was the Dean in the early 90s,............................
ULTRA- SCIENCE.
Progress is looking at the same thing from different angles....................
UNCERTAINTY IS THE ONLY CERTAINTY
Richard Smith, the editor of the British Medical Journal, was lamenting, in one of his recent editorials,...........................
VILLAGE SCHOOL AS THE PROMOTIVE HEALTH UNIT (PHUs)
Healthy India would certainly be a wealthy India with its all round progress. Rounded development of an individual, and...................
VILLAGE SCHOOLS AS PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRES.
India lives in its villages, of which there are nearly six hundred thousand in all. Clusters of a few villages have the present Primary Health Centres (PHCs)..........................
WALK AWAY AND FEEL BETTER.
Man is made to walk and not to sit and talk! Like any other aerobic exercise viz: swimming, cycling, and.....................
WANT TO MAKE A FAST BUCK?
In the present day world of monetary economy making money seems to be our only religion and money is, of course, our God......................
WATER AND HUMAN HEALTH
This planet is mainly a mass of water and only a small portion of it is land. Despite all that only a minute share of water in the planet (2.5%) is potable..........................
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE; NOT GOOD TO DRINK!
Writing about drinking water! What rubbish? That would be your first reaction. Wait to think a bit about the less fortunate people in this world. More than eighty per cent of the ...........................
WAVELET ANALYSIS OF HEART RATE VARIABILITY. New Method of Studying the Heart's Function
Conventional electrocardiogram is the sum total of the millions of cardiac cell depolarization potentials..................
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
In the Greek mythology of Pandora, Prometheus arrives too late to close the box, opened by his brother Epimetheus,.....................
WHAT AILS HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA?
Higher education in India, nay in many parts of the globe, suffers from many ailments, but the most important are the following..................
In an unusual, but unfortunate, ruling the US Supreme Court in a 5-4 majority judgment in March 2000, delivered in the court by the senior judge,...........................
TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIETY THROUGH EDUCATION
Does society need transformation? It is a million dollar question that begs more questions than answers at the moment........................
Tricks of the Trade
My book on Hypertension-the other side of the Coin was published in 1993 by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai. This book has a foreword by a leading British hypertensinologist......................
TRUTH WILL TRIUMPH.
When I first conceived the clinical pharmacology unit for Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, where I was the Dean in the early 90s,............................
ULTRA- SCIENCE.
Progress is looking at the same thing from different angles....................
UNCERTAINTY IS THE ONLY CERTAINTY
Richard Smith, the editor of the British Medical Journal, was lamenting, in one of his recent editorials,...........................
VILLAGE SCHOOL AS THE PROMOTIVE HEALTH UNIT (PHUs)
Healthy India would certainly be a wealthy India with its all round progress. Rounded development of an individual, and...................
VILLAGE SCHOOLS AS PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRES.
India lives in its villages, of which there are nearly six hundred thousand in all. Clusters of a few villages have the present Primary Health Centres (PHCs)..........................
WALK AWAY AND FEEL BETTER.
Man is made to walk and not to sit and talk! Like any other aerobic exercise viz: swimming, cycling, and.....................
WANT TO MAKE A FAST BUCK?
In the present day world of monetary economy making money seems to be our only religion and money is, of course, our God......................
WATER AND HUMAN HEALTH
This planet is mainly a mass of water and only a small portion of it is land. Despite all that only a minute share of water in the planet (2.5%) is potable..........................
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE; NOT GOOD TO DRINK!
Writing about drinking water! What rubbish? That would be your first reaction. Wait to think a bit about the less fortunate people in this world. More than eighty per cent of the ...........................
WAVELET ANALYSIS OF HEART RATE VARIABILITY. New Method of Studying the Heart's Function
Conventional electrocardiogram is the sum total of the millions of cardiac cell depolarization potentials..................
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
In the Greek mythology of Pandora, Prometheus arrives too late to close the box, opened by his brother Epimetheus,.....................
WHAT AILS HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA?
Higher education in India, nay in many parts of the globe, suffers from many ailments, but the most important are the following..................