Psychiatry

Forgotten legacy of Freud (The Telegraph)

6 Jul 2008

Soumya Sekhar Bose is 6 feet tall and seems straight out of the modelling-music video-film circuit and that is where he has been, despite an M.Sc in physiology from Calcutta University. Not the type, you would think, to be interested in the past.

Capsule capital (The Telegraph)

6 Jul 2008

Calcutta has a medicine shop at every corner. Metro explores what makes the city a pill-popper’s paradise . Calcuttans run to healthcare haven Vellore at the drop of a hair because there’s no choice.

Prevalence Of Religious Congregations Affects Mortality Rates (Medical News Today)

5 Jul 2008

LSU associate professor of sociology Troy C. Blanchard recently found that a community's religious environment - that is, the type of religious congregations within a locale - affects mortality rates, often in a positive manner. These results were published in the June issue of Social Forces, a leading journal in the field of sociology.