Goa Medical College – Oct 31, 2014

Goa Medical College – Oct 31, 2014

For those who do not live in Goa, the place  is almost always associated with holidays. And those who go on a holiday to Goa would be most reluctant to leave the beaches and anything else they are enjoying.  My trip to Goa was for the wedding of the daughter of my childhood friend - someone who I shared almost every waking moment with, during high school and college days. Now getting away from her and that too on a Goa beach venue would not have been easy, but thank goodness, it was for something I had long wanted to…
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Can you get me this article please?

Can you get me this article please?

This is one of the most regular pleas from students, academicians and doctors who do any kind of writing or even reading articles. They search PubMed, find a set of references and then "get stuck" for the full text.  I mention this in the Indian context, though I suspect this is true for any developing nation that does not have  HINARI privileges. A couple of weeks back I got a request for two articles from a young doctor who was working on a research project with a team. I checked the NUCSSI Union Catalog and told him that the articles he needed…
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Newsletter- July 2013

Newsletter- July 2013

Dear Friends The July 2013 issue of our newsletter is up on our website.  Well this is really a March to July 2013 issue (reasons in the newsletter), and it summarizes the blog posts of all these months, (conveniently linking to the respective posts). We share our developments in these months, this blog being one of them.  Happy Reading! Vasumathi Sriganesh                        
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