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[Voice of Hindus @Voiceofhindus]

Indian Government banned Telegram till 22 june for ReNeet

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

The alternative medicine industry and its practitioners in India have been given immunity against criticims from the medical science community by the Government of India and AYUSH Ministry, through the recently amended Information Technology rules via the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of India, that include gagging, silencing and automated deletion of content which they feel will make the Govt "look bad". The rules were extended to include independent content creators, podcasters, and influencers, bringing news-related online posts under the same "code of ethics" used for traditional media.

They have now started using this against medical science communicators and doctors online. My post on Instagram went into automated removal (those in India cannot see it) after they found it was critical of Homeopathy practice.

This essentially means that science communicators are not allowed to call out unscientific practices and practitioners for their pseudoscientific, fradulent and quackery filled practices, but they are allowed to post images and videos of such practices online without any accountability or repurcussions.

This has come after my work and interviews in the last few weeks have throughly dismantled the Homeopathy community in India followed by large body of written and video content that supported the fact that Homeopathy is not medical care, but a pre-scientific era artefact that survives because of State support, legal protection and stakes in business of medical care.

The Homeopathy community sees this as a win. All the others, see them as cowards. Banning people from talking about unscientific practices, does not make unscientific practices, scientific. It just makes it more evident that "criminals need paid policmen and protected ghettos to hide from the real police".

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Dear friends, as promised, the citizens funded generics vs. branded drugs project is now published after 4 months in peer review. It was hardwork, but worth the effort because all of you helped us realize this important work.

You can read the full detaild paper here: https://t.co/jZhm8ZcPCq

Here is a simplified summary:
Do cheaper generic medicines work as well as expensive branded ones? It's a question that worries patients and even many doctors, who often quietly assume that a low price must mean lower quality. This doubt has real consequences in India, where medicines make up nearly two-thirds of what families spend out of their own pockets on healthcare — a burden that pushes millions into poverty and forces people to split doses or stop treatment altogether.

To put the question to a fair, independent test, our team at the Mission for Ethics and Science in Healthcare (MESH) carried out a fully citizen-funded study, paid for entirely by donations from ordinary members of the public, with no money or influence from any drug company.

We bought 131 samples of 22 commonly used medicines — covering heart disease, diabetes, infections, pain, acidity, and more — from seven different kinds of outlets across Kerala, including government stores like Jan Aushadhi, private generic chains, and premium branded pharmacies. Every sample was then coded, blinded, and sent to a top accredited laboratory for rigorous testing against the Indian Pharmacopoeia 2022 standards. What makes this study unusual is that very few before it have tested branded and generic versions from the same market side by side, included government-supplied medicines, and combined strict quality testing with a hard look at price — all at the same time.

The result was striking in its simplicity: every single one of the 131 medicines passed every quality test. 100%. It made no difference whether a pill was generic or branded, cheap or expensive — they were all equally good in their active ingredient content, their purity, and how they dissolve in the body.

Yet the prices told a completely different story. Generic medicines were, on average, 48.6% cheaper than their branded twins, and the most expensive brand cost up to 13.9 times more than the cheapest generic of the very same drug. Government Jan Aushadhi stores were the cheapest source for 18 of the 22 medicines tested, with potential savings running into thousands of rupees a year per medicine — for instance, over ₹16,000 a year on a single liver drug.

For doctors, this is reassuring, hard evidence that prescribing a quality-assured generic is not a compromise on care; it is the same medicine at a fraction of the cost. For patients, it means you can stay on your treatment without it draining your savings, which is exactly what keeps people healthier over the long run.

And this is precisely why independent, publicly funded projects like this matter so much for the future of healthcare in India: they answer the questions ordinary people actually have, free from commercial pressure, and they build the trust that programmes like Jan Aushadhi need to truly succeed. Affordable and high-quality are not opposites — in a well-regulated market, they go hand in hand.
More here: https://t.co/jZhm8ZcPCq

[Dr.Sivaranjini @dr_sivaranjani]

The drug "ORS" is still being used on the labels, in the branding, and in the marketing of beverages not complying with the WHO recommended formula ORS.

https://t.co/EzGFbVddDU

If each of you make your family sign the petition and share with your friends asking them to do the same, you can become a part of this great mission to ensure no company cheats parents once again in the name of ORS. Think about the poor ignorant parents atleast! Please! 5 MINS OF YOUR TIME FOR THIS PLS, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO LOSE ANYTHING, BUT YOU MAY SAVE A CHILD'S LIFE.

"Dear all, I Dr Sivaranjani Santosh want to clarify to you that I have not reached out to IAP to condemn the notice by Kenvue and J&J expecting them to provide me with some legal support etc. I am strong enough to face the companies by myself. I want IAP to ask Kenvue to rebrand in such a way that the new product doesn't have any semblance to ORSL which parents believed to be ORS for 2 decades, to ask them not to use ORSL in the marketing of the new product/eRZL, and to not promote any of these as daily hydration drinks for children, especially the ones containing NSS like Sucralose.
If IAP doesn't do it atleast now, it won't have a face left to save. It's like backstabbing the children of this country for the funds and freebies from the companies!"

I ask you all if this was an abusive message?! The president of IAP is taking pains to spread the message in the IAP circles that I am an abusive person and that I use derogatory language. Most IAPians at the ground level are supporting the cause and are supporting me, but the president and her coterie are hell bent on misleading the other IAPians that I have commercial interests in doing what I am doing, that I am earning money from social media, and that I am doing it for public attention.
It's basic common sense that no one would fight for years with multinational companies, the government, and their own professional body for earning money/gaining public attention. It is also basic common sense that one doesn't earn money through social media if the channel is a social channel and/or if one doesn't do endorsements.

You all have seen
1. How IAP president and her team refused to condemn the notice issued to me by Johnson&Johnson Pte Ltd and Kenvue
2. How the IAP president refused to condemn the Public notice by Kenvue that its ORSL drinks were scientific and that they were presented in PEDICON
3. The IAP's position statement on ORS and electrolytes emphasizing on the safety of Sucralose without talking about the other artificial sweeteners and without warning the parents about the risks of daily usage of Sucralose.
4. You also know that IAP conferences continue to be funded by Kenvue, and IAP had never asked them to remove ORS from the branding of Johnson&Johnson's/Kenvue's high sugar liquids inspite of my repeated mails.
5. Now, IAP president without knowing the ground reality sharing videos that anything which has ORS on it is ORS, after the FSSAI order.
No. It is not so. Sharing the pics of 2 brands which are stilling using ORS in the branding/on the label, violating FSSAI order. eRZL is still being marketed as the new form of ORSL, again violating the FSSAI order.

I wonder why the IAP president is going to such lengths to protect the company and pull down the one paediatrician who remained steadfast in her commitment to ensure 'ORS' is not used on the labels of any beverages or packs unless until it is WHO recommended formula ORS.

You all know how important that was for the children, old people, people with diabetes, and all!

@fssaiindia
@docalok
@MoHFW_INDIA
@NMC_IND
@NeetiiAayog

#ORSL #eRZL #electrofit
#ETORS #misbranding
#IAPpresident

[Dr.Sivaranjini @dr_sivaranjani]

27th APRIL to 2nd MAY

WE ARE SHORT OF TIME!

THIS MOVEMENT HAS TO SPREAD LIKE WILD FIRE!
Tag @fssaiindia

#IndiansWantFOPLwarnings #IndiansWantFOPLwarnings

INDIANS HAVE A RIGHT TO GOOD HEALTH!

WE DONT WANT OBESITY, DIABETES, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE OR HEART DISEASE.

WE WANT TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN TOO!

WE WILL DECIDE  ABOUT HOW WE WANT TO BE WARNED ABOUT HIGH FAT, SUGAR OR SALT IN THE FOOD.

IT CANNOT BE DECIDED BY COMPANIES SELLING PACKED FOOD AND COMPANIES MARKETING PACKED FOOD AGGRESSIVELY INCLUDING CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS.

PLEASE SAVE INDIANS! ASK FOR FOPL WARNINGS! LET THIS MOVEMENT BECOME A TSUNAMI! 

#IndiansWantFOPLwarnings #IndiansWantFOPLwarnings

@fssaiindia @MoHFW_INDIA
@JPNadda
@Moveribfan

#FOPLwarning  #INR #SupremeCourt #SaltSugarSaturatedfat #3SandOurhealthsociety

Thank you @NixonGoyal7399 for helping me with the post

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

A private Ayurveda company made a majorly serious attempt to issue summons followed by arrest warrant against me for speaking against dangers of Ayurvedic herbal drugs and supplements which also included their product. The honorable High Court of Kerala has stayed the matter after my lawyers intervened urgently. This is the price a doctor-educator and public health activist has to pay for protecting people from avoidable dangers.

[Jayant Kunwar @JayantKunwar]

The world is planning to go on mars but still in india people struggling with #IRCTC app at 10am & 11am.
Which server @RailMinIndia is using only God knows @IRCTCofficial from last 3 days trying to book ticket automatically getting logout multiple times @AshwiniVaishnaw

[Sadiq 🇮🇳 @Sadiq8990]

Inspite of using good connection Big scam 4 online users, while private booking agents R seamlessly booking tickets individual irctc users affected during the booking tatkal timing. @IRCTCofficial your Railone app is also crashing #IRCTC #RailwayReforms2026 @AshwiniVaishnaw Sir.

[Agni @Agnibagni]

It looks like the app is hacked & no taxpayer can book tickets
But brokers & agents wil get tickets in counter as wel as in websites & apps
Very pathetic service by @BJP4India central govt. @BJP4Karnataka @INCIndia 🖐️ bhai kuch to karo congress walo thoda help hoga common man ko

[Dr.Sivaranjini @dr_sivaranjani]

I am Dr. Sivaranjani, a pediatrician , raising concerns about how eRZL is being marketed and positioned in pharmacies, and the risk it creates for consumers making critical decisions during dehydration.
This issue is not about whether eRZL is safe in isolation.
It is about how it is presented, perceived, and potentially misunderstood in real-world settings.

eRZL is a commercially marketed electrolyte drink. However, its branding and advertising raise serious concerns.
*It should not be using ORSL in its communication.*
Why?
Because:
* ORSL itself is not the original medically recommended ORS
* Referencing ORSL in any form creates brand recall in the minds of consumers
* Instead of reducing confusion, it continues and reinforces it
When eRZL is positioned as a continuation or replacement of ORSL, it keeps that same association alive — especially among parents who may already believe ORSL was equivalent to ORS.
👉 This defeats the very purpose of regulatory action.

In pharmacy settings:
* People are often making quick decisions under stress
* They rely on familiar names and visual cues
* Branding can directly influence what they choose
If eRZL continues to build on ORSL recall, it risks being perceived as a medical solution for dehydration, even when it is not the same as ORS (the medically recommended solution).

There are also concerns around ingredients like sucralose, especially in children and with prolonged use, based on global health guidance.
This makes clear communication even more important.

After raising these concerns, I have received a legal notice from Johnson & Johnson Pte Ltd and Kenvue.
This petition is not about conflict.
It is about:
* Clarity in healthcare communication
* Preventing consumer confusion
* Ensuring responsible branding and advertising
* Allowing doctors to raise public health concerns without hesitation

We urge the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to:
1 *. Ensure that, since eRZL closely resembles ORSL, Kenvue is directed to rebrand it in a way that does not create recall or association with ORSL.*
2. Prevent misleading positioning that may confuse consumers
3. Strengthen enforcement at the pharmacy level
4. Ensure clear differentiation from medically recommended ORS
5. Protect healthcare professionals raising genuine concerns

In healthcare, even small confusion can have big consequences. Clear choices save lives.

Stand for public health. Sign and share this petition to help protect every family from confusion in critical moments.

https://t.co/EzGFbVddDU

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Dear Friends, please help this message reach the makers of the malayalam movie Vazha 2. It is long, but very important.

A recent malayalam movie, called Vazha 2 portrayed a character who keeps consuming ayurvedic medicine -(arishtam, a herbal liquor, with 10-15% alcohol, which Ayurveda practitioners blindly claim to have "health benefits")- and ends with serious fatal liver disease.

The people behind the movie are intelligent and well-informed. For decades, the Ayurveda community has been feeding public and patients the narrative that herbal medicine is safe and effective, even the ones containing toxic botanicals and alcohol. This narrative is now being challenged because there is a large body of peer-reviewed evidence that without reasonable doubt show that Ayurvedic herbals can be extremely toxic to the liver, sometimes even leading to death or liver transplantation. Now the movie format is bringing this to public's notice.

My most impactful publication on this was literally about a 14 year old girl developing severe alcohol-related hepatitis due to long term use of PRESCRIBED ayurvedic herbals (the same category mentioned in the movie) for epilepsy management.
Published paper: https://t.co/m1xklJH4eh and media report: https://t.co/8P6BKsEyLM

There are also other reports that show ayurvedic herbals can cause cirrhosis (https://t.co/bVhEfxm7N6), severe liver injury (https://t.co/DUM6upItUL, https://t.co/7vus6pBDQi), liver failure (https://t.co/XWRkbH9H4q) and death (https://t.co/oJcSFUi2eD).

Analysis of Ayurvedic herbals - classical formulations, proprietary herbals as well as traditionally prepared ones have consistently shown alcohol, liver toxic botanicals, liver toxic heavy metals and organ damaging adulterants (https://t.co/t8EzBeDS9S). Ayurveda is a harmful pseudoscience which which even global experts agree with (https://t.co/maJjdzYffe).

Now, the Ayurveda Medical Association of India (AMAI), which is in fact, a third rate society of Ayurveda practitioners and the herbals manufacturing companies that they are in cahoots with, has served legal notice against the movie writers and producers. They have threatened further action if the specific segment in the movie was not removed.

The same AMAI group sent complaints against me to the police, Courts and also Prime Ministers Office also when I published peer reviewed papers on harms of Ayurvedic herbals. They could not even scratch my epidermis with all of that legal drama, because science wins. Evidence shines.

These so-called Ayurveda Practitioners are losing business because public is realising that their products and services are one, useless (no evidence) and now two, dangerous also (more side effects than beneficial effects). An existential crisis is looming over their quackery business.

I would like to offer my complete and highest level of academic expertise and support to the makers of the movie Vazha Part 2 to fight these cheap, fragile ego suffering so-called alternative medicine practitioners (SCAM) of Ayurveda who think they, and their unscientific businesses are above evidence based medicine and public health.

DO NOT. I REPEAT, DO NOT, modify or remove anything from the movie. It is perfect and a huge needed public health activism. Keep up the good work! Do not bow down to any legalized glorified quacks!

And for everyone here, watch both parts of Vazha movie. It is brilliant and worth your time and money.

- The Liver Doc
abbyphilips(at)theliverinst(dot)in

[Praveen Kumar Marimuthu @drmpk91]

Transformation in oral cancer, symbolised by butterflies emerging from the lips.
Immune & therapeutic motifs reflect convergence of chemo, IO & metronomic Rx enabling curative surgery. From #NeoLOCUS. Ft
cover @LancetRH_SEAsia
🎨: Dr John Prabakar Raju Lingala, @OffCMCVellore

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Good morning @dr_sivaranjani

The Public Interest notice put on social media by Kenvue, the makers of Fake ORS™ is a classical case study in "Corporate Health-Washing".

Hey @kenvue @JNJNews no one needs your rubbish "hydration products" from a scientific standpoint. So you can go to hell and your products can rot on the shelves for all we care. Stop intimidating physicians and clean up your corporate mess born out of greed. Presenting your products in medical conferences is not scientific evidence, its paid endorsement. So respectfully, F.O.

A product that was commercially marketed as ORS for years despite not meeting WHO composition standards, that was formally banned by India's food safety regulator, that had its ban upheld by the Delhi High Court as a "health hazard," and that has now been cosmetically rebranded with a visually similar name, is being presented as a triumph of science-backed innovation. The WHO's own recommendation against the very sweetener used in the reformulated product is dismissed as "unrelated." And the physicians who fought for eight years to protect children from this deception are characterized as "disparaging influencers."

Here is a takedown of their sh*tty notice from my side, which you (@dr_sivaranjani) can use in your case against them.

1. "We have shaped the hydration category in India providing consumers with scientifically formulated solutions"
This is corporate euphemism for having commercialized a high-sugar beverage that was deceptively branded to resemble WHO-standard ORS for years. The product ORSL was never WHO-compliant ORS. The WHO reduced-osmolarity ORS formula specifies glucose 75 mmol/L (~13.5 g/L), sodium 75 mEq/L, potassium 20 mEq/L, and a total osmolarity of 245 mOsm/L. A product with roughly 8–9 times the glucose concentration of WHO ORS is not a "scientifically formulated solution", it is a sugary beverage that can worsen diarrheal dehydration through osmotic diarrhea. FSSAI found that the labeling and branding of ORSL beverages may mislead consumers into believing the product was a medically approved oral rehydration solution.

2. "In January 2026, we diversified our portfolio into two distinct brands — ORSL (Drug product) and ERZL (Food Product)"
This "dual-brand strategy" was not voluntary innovation — it was forced by the FSSAI ban. ORSL has even rebranded to ERZL (the 'e' designed to look similar to 'o' and the 'z' to 's'). The visual similarity between "ERZL" and "ORSL" is not accidental. The product's communication and positioning may create an association with ORS, and references to similarly named products in branding or advertising could reinforce consumer recall and blur the distinction between scientifically approved ORS and commercially marketed electrolyte beverages. A parent who was buying ORSL thinking it was ORS will now see ERZL in the same pharmacy shelf with near-identical packaging and make the same error. This is classic brand continuity engineering designed to circumvent regulatory intent.

3. "Reduced the added sugar content by 87% with 1.4X more electrolytes" — framed as a public health achievement
If you reduce sugar by 87% from a baseline of ~110 g/L added sugar, you still have approximately 14 g/L added sugar - and you have now replaced that sugar with sucralose, an artificial sweetener. The framing of "87% reduction" is a mathematical trick: it sounds impressive only because the starting point was absurdly, irresponsibly high. It is like a tobacco company boasting of reducing tar by 87% and expecting public health applause. Furthermore, "1.4X more electrolytes" is vague and scientifically meaningless without specifying which electrolytes, at what concentrations, and whether the resulting osmolarity is appropriate for the claimed indication. An electrolyte drink for "everyday hydration" in a healthy individual is, physiologically speaking, unnecessary - plain water and a normal diet provide adequate electrolytes for non-pathological states.

4. "There is well established scientific and safety assessment of sucralose, which is recognized by Global Health Authorities like Codex, EFSA besides both FSSAI & CDSCO/Indian Pharmacopoeia"
This statement cherry-picks regulatory approvals while deliberately ignoring the WHO's own 2023 guideline where especially, this ingredient is not supposed to be part of "healthy hydration."

5. "WHO Guidelines (2023) regarding use of 'non-sugar sweeteners' to reduce the risk of unhealthy weight gain have also been cited out of context and is unrelated to products like WHO ORS and Electrolyte Drinks"
This is perhaps the most egregious misrepresentation in the entire notice. The WHO 2023 guideline on NSS is a public health recommendation against the use of non-sugar sweeteners in foods and beverages across the board. This guideline provides evidence-informed guidance on the use of non-sugar sweeteners in adults and children. The guideline explicitly applies to "all synthetic and naturally occurring or modified non-nutritive sweeteners found in manufactured foods and beverages." ERZL is a manufactured beverage containing sucralose. It falls squarely within the scope of this recommendation. Kenvue's argument that this guideline is "unrelated" to electrolyte drinks is scientifically untenable. The WHO did not carve out exceptions for beverages that happen to contain electrolytes. The guideline's scope is defined by the presence of NSS in the product, not by the product's marketing category.

6. "We have been singularly targeted by a few Healthcare Professionals cum influencers in a disparaging and denigrating manner"
The healthcare professionals who raised these concerns were exercising their professional duty. Dr. Sivaranjani documented cases over eight years, including a diabetic child from Chennai who was dehydrated despite being given an ORS drink from a tetra pack. It was her advocacy that ultimately led FSSAI to act.
Characterizing physician advocacy against misleading health products as "disparagement" is a well-documented corporate strategy (SLAPP: Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) designed to silence public health criticism through legal intimidation.
The notice's claim that these professionals are motivated by "commercial benefits" and "increasing followers" is an ad hominem attack that inverts the actual conflict of interest. The commercial benefit accusation is outrageous - the party actually benefitting commercially from the product is the company Kenvue (Johnson & Johnson).

7. "We always recommend our ORSL WHO ORS portfolio to address diarrheal dehydration and ERZL for everyday hydration, respectively"
The concept of "everyday hydration" requiring a commercial electrolyte-and-sucralose beverage has no basis in physiology or evidence-based medicine. It is not recommended in any clinical guidelines. Healthy individuals with intact renal function, normal diet, and access to water do not need electrolyte supplementation for everyday activities. "Silent dehydration" - a marketing term promoted by these manufacturers - does not appear in recognized medical literature. This framing medicalizes a normal physiological state to create a market for an unnecessary product.

8. "We had no choice but to take necessary action to safeguard the brand integrity"
Sending legal notices to physicians who raise legitimate scientific concerns about a product that was already banned by FSSAI and whose ban was upheld by the Delhi High Court is not "safeguarding brand integrity." It is an attempt to suppress public health advocacy. The timing - sending notices after being forced to rebrand by regulatory action - suggests the motive is to silence documentation of the rebranding's deceptive visual similarity to the original banned product, not to correct misinformation.

The science is not on Kenvue's side. The regulatory record is not on Kenvue's side. The public interest is not on Kenvue's side.

[Dr.Sivaranjini @dr_sivaranjani]

Yes. #BoycottKenvue #BoycottJohnsonJohnson
unless @Kenvue and @JNJHealthEquity 1. you issue a public apology for misbranding sugary liquid as ORS and selling it for 2 decades at the cost of health and lives of children inspite of knowing what was happening at the ground level. If it was in the United States, you would be facing thousands of litigations from parents(parents of those children who suffered because of the deception.
2. Rebrand your tetrapack beverages completely so that there is no visual similarity to ORSL
3. Do not use ORSL in your marketing of these newly branded tetrapacks.
Please Note: We are not talking about the WHO recommended formula here.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Standing up for accurate medical information should never invite intimidation. Absolutely. I applaud Dr. Sivaranjini for her fight against misleading ORS branding, and every doctor who rallied behind her. This is what the medical community should look like.

But let me be honest. Painfully honest.

The medical community in India develops courage selectively - when the stakes are low and the enemy is convenient.

Fighting fake ORS is important. But it is also safe. No ancient tradition protects it. No ministry backs it. No political ideology wraps itself around electrolyte branding.

Now try standing up against Ayurveda and Homeopathy causing liver failure, kidney injury, lead poisoning, and death. Try publishing that data. Try saying it out loud on a public platform.

I have been doing this for years. What has it earned me? Fifteen-plus legal notices. Criminal cases. FIRs. Defamation suits filed across multiple states. Harassment, bullying, and coordinated attacks from an industry that enjoys state protection and cultural immunity.

And where has the medical community been?
Largely silent. Comfortably silent.

By-and-large, the medical community especially the medical student community, the specialists clinical societies or national and regional level doctors group never come out and fought for the rights of the patients and their safety against Ayush in India in the open - not even endorsing evidence after evidence of harms published.

The gastroenterology and hepatology societies in India - my own specialty - do not hold sessions on alternative medicine at their national meetings. They do not publish guidance for patients. They reject manuscripts documenting AYUSH adverse events. Their consensus statements pretend the problem does not exist. They have decided that this particular cancer growing inside Indian public health is someone else's problem.

For years, the medical establishment believed that if they ignored AYUSH harms, if they simply didn't talk about it, the problem would disappear. It didn't. It metastasized. And now have infiltrated Institutions of repute. And while it grew, the people who stood by me, who amplified the evidence, who fought alongside me — were not doctors. They were not specialist societies. They were not medical colleges.

They were the public. Ordinary citizens who understood that patient safety is not a niche academic concern - it is their lives, their families, their right. And I want them to know, that I appreciate you. You are my sanctuary here.

I love what I do. I have no complaints. I will keep doing it as long as I can. But imagine, just imagine, what we could have achieved if the entire medical community had treated AYUSH harms with the same urgency they now show for fake ORS. If every clinical society had said: our patients are being poisoned by unregulated products sold as medicine, and we will not stay quiet.

We would have had better regulation. Better research. Better outcomes. Fewer destroyed organs. Fewer dead patients. Fewer transplants.

"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic."

That is what AYUSH toxicity is to the Indian medical establishment - a distant rumble they can ignore while they enjoy their conferences. Until the storm arrives at their own table.

It shouldn't take one doctor being dragged to court for the community to notice. It shouldn't take a patient dying for a society to issue a statement. Stand up for all of patient safety. Not just the parts that don't cost you anything.

Dismantle the narrative Ayush is building. This is, the only beast, medical community in India must handle effectively to improve healthcare outcomes and public and patient safety.

[Priya Purohit @Priyaa_Purohit]

......🤯🤯 !!

[Dr.Sivaranjini @dr_sivaranjani]

Tired, but not giving up! Pls download and share before there is a gag order on me.
Thanks to @IndiaESI (who also impleaded in my PIL against misleading branding of sugary drinks as ORS), @FAIMA_INDIA_ , HRDA Andhrapradesh, HRDA Telangana, MARD Thane, MARD Nagpur, Junior Doctor's Association Ahmedabad, Telangana Junior Doctor's Association, Junior Doctor's Association Ranchi, T-SRDA, GARD, Telangana Doctor's Forum, RDA Aligarh, RDWS UP, IMA Telangana State, IMA Hyderabad Airport, Endocrine Society of Telangana, Indian Doctor's and Dermatologists against quackery, for condemning the notice of Johnson&Johnson and Kenvue in which they accused me of disparaging them for my commercial benefits and views! Thank you for staying by my side! Grateful!

[🚨Indian Gems @IndianGems_]

This is Kochi. Look how clean it is but as per Swachh Survekshan 2023 rankings, Kochi was at 416th rank while kanpur at 17th rank 🤡😭

[Maryam @hell_line0]

Patient: So you’re telling me I do have breast cancer?

Me, a surgeon: Yes, I’m so sorry.

Pt: Ok, how do we move forward?

Her friend: Must be all that soy you eat. I told you soy causes breast cancer.

Me: What? No.

Second visit:

Me: Where’s your friend Jane?

Pt: Jane does not have access to me anymore. After you left she shared even more thoughts about why I got cancer.

Me: 👏🏽👏🏽

To my patients and all patients w cancer, you do NOT need to hear anyone’s misinformed theories about it!

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Many thanks to Prof. Steven Novella and The Science-Based Medicine for writing on and highlighting our work! This means a lot to me and my team of researchers who spend our own money and resources to improve public health education and safety.

You can read Prof. Novella's write up here:
https://t.co/1tjUjJmgbl

You can read our original work here:
https://t.co/3RIqoZevob