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The Harvard Business School newsletter Working Knowledge has an article on Dr. Devi Shetty’s Narayana Hrudalaya.

It’s kind of a Robin Hood hospital. When you walk in with a heart ailment, if you can pay, you pay; if you can’t pay, you get treated for free. It doesn’t matter what your heart ailment is. Its operating […]

I was chatting with a close friend yesterday. He is generally quite composed, but seemed very disturbed over the destruction caused by the Tsunami. Disturbed enough to tell me that he’d been crying for some time. I was surprised. He had lost no family or friends and thus was not affected personally. He’d never been […]

Wanna see some food porn? Go on, click here (and yes, it’s safe for work).
… sparing no rhetorical excess, the Center for Science in the Public Interest has denounced Hardee’s new Monster ThickBurger, a concoction that contains 2/3 lb of beef, four slices of bacon, three slices of a cheese-like substance and mayonnaise, as ‘food […]

Here are two reviews of Super Size Me, a documentary in which the filmmaker, Morgan Spurlock, eats exclusively at McDonalds for a month to show how obesity / poor health and large fast food corporations are linked.
A. O. Scott in the New York Times. (free registration required)
The arguments in “Super Size Me” will be […]

Sydney Smith attacks the hysteria surrounding second hand smoke and critiques the unnecessarily scary research that has lead to bans on smoking in public places around the world (including India).
If banning public smoking really reduced heart attack rates by forty-percent, wouldn’t New York city cardiologists have noticed by now? A forty-percent decrease in business is […]

Decided to take one more step into tech savvydom. I know it’s rather banal, but I got myself onto the RSS feed bandwagon right now via a utility called AmphetaDesk. I’ve been looking, but can’t seem to find the links for feeds from mainstream media — TOI / BBC / CNN / Economist. Maybe I’m […]

Trust Swaminathan Aiyar to put the entire cola pesticide issue in perspective.
Let’s accept CSE data, regardless of what others say, and compare these with EU norms for various edible items in Europe.
You will find that Pepsi has 37 times as much pesticide as the EU norm for water. How dreadful!
But compare Pepsi with other […]

One more junk science scare story bites the dust.
Warning: the health police can seriously addle your brain