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
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER.
I once glanced through an editorial in The Lancet entitled Could Epidemiologists Cause Epidemics?1 Stimulating title indeed! As I read on I could feel my .............................
Face of God
Has God got a face? Is there someone who has seen the face of God? I am told that scientists, especially physicists..........
FACTS AND FICTION ABOUT ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO SMOKE.
A good friend of mine, an American citizen of Indian origin, Dr. Anirudh Srivastava, used to smoke like a chimney. ......................
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored!
Aldous Huxley didn’t write the above golden line for nothing. Today we see this happening in every field. I was amazed to ..................
FEAR IS THE KEY.
This week saw two very important publications in the medical scientific press. PLOSmedicine.com is the only medical journal on line which is totally free. ...................................
FILARIASIS ERADICATION--NEW GROUND BREAKING RESEARCH
There were hectic governmental efforts recently to push diethy-carbamazine citrate (Hatrazan) down every ...................................
Final copy. HAS SCIENCE LOST ITS HEART?
My recent article on science and its fallouts was published with a very provocative heading by the ....................................
Final copy. GENES, DREAMS, AND REALITIES IN HYPERTENSION.
Just as people believe that there is a pill for every ill, we have been hoping that with the unravelling of the ..................................
FINAL VERSION OF CRITICAL CARE-CORRECTED
More than ninety per cent of the American health care budget goes to keep patients alive in critical care units during the last ten days of their lives. ......................................
FOOD-GENE MISMATCH.
We have been hunter-gatherers for millions of years before we settled down as groups (society today) on .............................
FROM DISEASE-CENTRED TO PATIENT-CENTRED MEDICAL EDUCATION.A PARADIGM SHIFT-PLEA FOR SANITY.
“If you listen to your patient long enough, he/she will tell you what is wrong with him/her,” wrote Lord Platt, a great British brain in ..........................
FUTURE MEDICARE SYSTEM
Modern medicine has become prohibitively expensive. It is going to be still more so with newer technology ...................................
GENES, DREAMS, AND REALITIES.
Mankind, or for that matter, any other living organism on this planet, has its basic unit, the gene, inside each chromosome, in every cell. There is a total of about 10 ....................................
GENES, DREAMS, AND REALITIES.
The popular press seems to have a hay day reporting all kinds of exciting possibilities, some ..........................................
Genralists Vs Specialists
Our new doctors do get a reasonably good western type of education within the four walls of the medical college hospitals where only 0.01 ..................................
I once glanced through an editorial in The Lancet entitled Could Epidemiologists Cause Epidemics?1 Stimulating title indeed! As I read on I could feel my .............................
Face of God
Has God got a face? Is there someone who has seen the face of God? I am told that scientists, especially physicists..........
FACTS AND FICTION ABOUT ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO SMOKE.
A good friend of mine, an American citizen of Indian origin, Dr. Anirudh Srivastava, used to smoke like a chimney. ......................
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored!
Aldous Huxley didn’t write the above golden line for nothing. Today we see this happening in every field. I was amazed to ..................
FEAR IS THE KEY.
This week saw two very important publications in the medical scientific press. PLOSmedicine.com is the only medical journal on line which is totally free. ...................................
FILARIASIS ERADICATION--NEW GROUND BREAKING RESEARCH
There were hectic governmental efforts recently to push diethy-carbamazine citrate (Hatrazan) down every ...................................
Final copy. HAS SCIENCE LOST ITS HEART?
My recent article on science and its fallouts was published with a very provocative heading by the ....................................
Final copy. GENES, DREAMS, AND REALITIES IN HYPERTENSION.
Just as people believe that there is a pill for every ill, we have been hoping that with the unravelling of the ..................................
FINAL VERSION OF CRITICAL CARE-CORRECTED
More than ninety per cent of the American health care budget goes to keep patients alive in critical care units during the last ten days of their lives. ......................................
FOOD-GENE MISMATCH.
We have been hunter-gatherers for millions of years before we settled down as groups (society today) on .............................
FROM DISEASE-CENTRED TO PATIENT-CENTRED MEDICAL EDUCATION.A PARADIGM SHIFT-PLEA FOR SANITY.
“If you listen to your patient long enough, he/she will tell you what is wrong with him/her,” wrote Lord Platt, a great British brain in ..........................
FUTURE MEDICARE SYSTEM
Modern medicine has become prohibitively expensive. It is going to be still more so with newer technology ...................................
GENES, DREAMS, AND REALITIES.
Mankind, or for that matter, any other living organism on this planet, has its basic unit, the gene, inside each chromosome, in every cell. There is a total of about 10 ....................................
GENES, DREAMS, AND REALITIES.
The popular press seems to have a hay day reporting all kinds of exciting possibilities, some ..........................................
Genralists Vs Specialists
Our new doctors do get a reasonably good western type of education within the four walls of the medical college hospitals where only 0.01 ..................................