DrD, ⚕️

Psychiatrist | Devoted to Molecular & Computational Psych | Brain Buff | 🧠👩🏻‍⚕️🎧🩰💃🏽🧬💻📍| #MedEd

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Dr. @dr_sivaranjani painstakingly fought for 8 years to convince the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to heed the harms of fake ORS drinks targeting children, flooding the market from greedy corporate companies.

She won. FSSAI ordered the ban on the use of “ORS” in product names except for WHO-approved formulations - which meant that these companies fake mislabelled products could not be sold.

But then, she lost.

In a new twist of events, the Delhi High Court and FSSAI has now ordered that fake ORS products, especially the worst and the most stocked one - ORSL Drink by JNTL Consumer Health (the name for the Indian consumer health subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, which is now known as Kenvue) can continue to be sold temporarily under the High Court’s interim protection.

The Court and FSSAI has essentially allowed the sale of fake mislabelled products worth 180 crore Indian Rupees to protect the interest of the greedy corporations without any concern for the children's health.

As a citizen of this country, you can help the good doctor and her great deed by BOYCOTTING THESE SUBSTANDARD PRODUCTS - LET THESE PRODUCTS ROT ON THE SHELVES. The public is the most powerful entity of a Nation. Let us be one and take care of ourselves and our children.

Do not buy these SUGARY products with zero health benefits and do not follow WHO Standards- and spread the word please! Share maximum!

ORSL by JTNL (Johnson and Johnson, Kenvue)
REBALANCE VIT ORS (ReddyLabs)
GLUCON - D ORS (Zydus)

The Courts allowed it. FSSAI consented to it.
But as the public of this country who value our childrens health, let us not. Make sure these greedy corporations suffer for their deceptions.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

The med school hypochondriac

[Slava Bobrov @slava__bobrov]

Human skull and brain from the inside:

#neuroscience

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

If you're not having fun, you're not learning. There's a pleasure in finding things out.

[DrD, ⚕️ @LadyCaudate]

दीपावली की शुभ कामनाएं 🪔🪔🪔

[Luiz Pessoa @PessoaBrain]

𝗜𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺, for how much longer can we keep doing papers like this
"Dopamine (or some other neurotransmitter) X receptors in Y-neurons regulate Z1 and Z2 behaviors"??

[Karthik Balachandran @karthik2k2]

Bengal has always been home to some of India’s greatest intellectuals. None, however, had a more tragic fate than Dr Subhas Mukhopadhyay. His is a tale of genius and betrayal, like no other.

Born in Hazaribagh in 1931, D Mukhopadhyay was a hardworking student. It wasn’t uncommon do BSc before MBBS in those days and Dr Mukhopadhyay finished his BSc in Physiology. The inner workings of the human body fascinated him and propelled him to do MBBS. There was no turning back. Armed with his background in physiology and a keen eye for research, he got his PhD in Reproductive Physiology in 1958. Amazingly he went on to get his *second* PhD in Reproductive Endocrinology from University of Edinburgh in 1967.

He joined as lecturer in physiology in the NRS Medical college, Calcutta - where he would go on to create history. Like most Indian researchers, he didn’t have access to costly equipment or dedicated lab. His weapon was his passion. He told his wife,Namita, that they would delay starting a family, since he had to focus on his work on creating a test tube baby.

He created India’s first and the world’s second test tube baby “Durga”, a mere 67 days after the first test tube baby was born in the UK.While the British doctors Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards enjoyed institutional support, Dr Subhas had to swim against the current.

His achievement created jealousy among colleagues and social ostracism - perhaps he was too ahead of his times. The then CPIM government harassed him - he was a straightforward man, unwilling to bend to bureaucratic whims and fancies. This would later prove to be his undoing.

The govt appointed committee had the gall to call his work bogus.He was quickly transferred to Ophthalmology department, thus curtailing his ability to work. He sought help from the Indian government to present his work in Tokyo. He was denied and his wings were clipped. Everywhere he turned, the doors were slammed shut.

On 19th June 1981, Namita Mukhopadhyay walked into their apartment, only to find her husband’s hanging body. His suicide note read “ I can’t wait everyday for a heart attack to kill me”.

Ignominy and suicide were the reward for the double PhD who had delayed starting his own family, so that he could offer hope to others with infertility.

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Dr Mukhopadhyay could have been relegated to the footnote of history, had it not been for another doctor T.C. Anandkumar, who years later, produced India’s second test tube baby in Mumbai. He gave Dr Subhas the much deserved credit as he understood the enormity of Dr Mukhopadhyay’s achievement better than anyone else.

The wheels of history started turning in Dr Mukhopadhyay’s favour, twenty years after his death. In true “Indian style”, a statue was erected in Hazaribagh to honor him. His life was made into a movie - Ek Doctor ki Maut (Tapan Sinha). The reproductive endocrinology department of NRS Medical College was named after him. In an IVF conference, “Durga”, the first test tube baby came out and revealed her identity at the age of 25 ,as Kanupriya Agarwal.

However, nothing could replace Namita Mukhopadhyay’s lost husband and life. When, they told the news of his delayed recognition, she wasn’t in a state to smile - she was paralyzed, the final blow after a lifetime of neglect.

While Dr Mukhopadhyay’s success against all odds is unique, the animosity and apathy he faced isn’t.The Indian crab mentality of “If I can’t have it, you can’t have it too” continues to plague our science. Bureaucratic interference and nepotism are sadly the norm.

Justice delayed is justice denied. Unless we solve the issues that led to Dr Subhash’s death, we can’t even claim delayed justice. And we will continue to lose such great minds.

[𝕲𝖚𝖗𝖚 𝕭𝖗𝖚𝖓𝖔 🇮🇳 @spinesurgeon]

Please see https://t.co/ANPD94yQf7 and related tweets to know the grievance

[DrD, ⚕️ @LadyCaudate]

@DRARN93 🙋🏻‍♀️

[DrD, ⚕️ @LadyCaudate]

@themeansquare @Gowtham_048 @geekyranjit But Google is yet to acknowledge it.

[Dr Anand Naik MD @DRARN93]

More you practice, more you will understand the true magnitude of fibromyalgia and psycho-somatic diseases in patients!! A troubled mind can manifest any symptom!! #MedTwitter

[DrD, ⚕️ @LadyCaudate]

@AlexanderHatoum Done sir.

[DrD, ⚕️ @LadyCaudate]

@AlexanderHatoum Sir can you please share the pdf.!

[DrD, ⚕️ @LadyCaudate]

दीपावली की शुभकामनाएं 🪔

[DrD, ⚕️ @LadyCaudate]

@JPablo_Neuro Congratulations.
I am interested, and would like to get in touch. Please share your email ID. Thank you.

[𝗡𝗶𝗵𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗮𝗶 MD, DM @nihardesai7]

Breaks my heart 💔

This horrible behaviour must be called out and the harshest punishment must be meted out to these so called "seniors" Residency is hard enough, these guys make it unbearable 😡

#MedTwitter 🇮🇳 @AnmolBhambhani

[DrD, ⚕️ @LadyCaudate]

@bhalomanush Welcome to Jaipur. Dates.?

[Drew Voigt @voigt_drew]

Today is one of my favorite scientist’s birthdays: Barbara McClintock. McClintock, a Nobel Prize laureate, was a titan of genomics research and discovered genetic transposition. I grew up hearing tales of McClintock’s research from my late grandfather, Paul Voigt (1/3)

[DrD, ⚕️ @LadyCaudate]

@bhalomanush Didn't read the article, but as per available information the trial was on patients with deficient mismatch repair (not sure if it was Lynch syndrome). What about autoimmune disorders in the long run. My senior told me nivolumab also achieved great success initially around 2014.