Jay Desai

Tony Joseph, 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Early Indians, caste system, Aryans, Zagros mountains, Indus Valley civilisation, Harappan civilisation, Harappa, Hinduism, European steppe, population genetics,

Why You Should Read ‘Early Indians’ Before You Cast Your Vote

Jay Desai 07/04/2019

Tony Joseph's 'Early Indians' tells you why what the...

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Debate: Preprints Are Double-Edged and Their Risks Outweigh Their Benefits

Jay Desai 06/11/2018

Preprints are likely to create confusion and distortion, and...

The Indian government seems to be rolling out bedaquiline in a phased manner and somewhat along the lines of the US FDA Expanded Access. Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0

Expanded Access and the Bedaquiline Debate: A Practitioner’s View

Jay Desai 25/06/2018

The Indian government and DCGI already have a programme...

A general view of the lobby area is pictured at the Fortis Memorial Hospital at Gurgaon on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, May 20, 2015. Credit: Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee

Corporate Hospitals in the US Point to the Path India Shouldn’t Be Taking

Jay Desai 21/06/2018

Unfortunately, the Indian healthcare system is following the American...

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The Art of Medicine, and Its Inadequacies

Jay Desai 11/06/2018

I am pessimistic about the science that I have...

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The Modern-Day Hippocratic Oath Disappoints

Jay Desai 07/01/2018

The World Medical Association's new Hippocratic Oath is re-energising...

A memory is made up of a network of neurons in the brain. Credit: UCI Research/Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0

Medicine in 2017 Saw Big Breakthroughs in Child Neurology

Jay Desai 31/12/2017

An AIIMS paper published in the New England Journal...