Community Medicine Blog

You tube lessons useful for students of Community Medicine : Salman Khan's lessons on statistics @ Khan's Academy are really useful for learning some of the foundations of biostatistics with understanding. UC Berkeley channel has webcasts of Disaster management, Infectious disease epidemiology and Applied epidemiology using R (R is the latest up-to-date open source statistical package gaining popularity by the day) IGNOU webcasts for PGDMCH course are also useful. The Hindu : Life & Style / Youth : YouTube lessons : 'via Blog this'

R: Sensitivity, specificity and predictive value of a diagnostic... : "Sensitivity, specificity and predictive value of a diagnostic test" 'via Blog this' Sometimes we need to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a new diagnostic test or score or index, in comparison to an existing gold standard. It is very simple to evaluate a diagnostic test in R (1).

One renowned nephrologist practising at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai tells that prevention of CKD is the only cost effective method to tackle this impending epidemic. Read his interview to Medindia . Also one must read,  " The prevention of Chronic Renal Failure at the community level. The rural programme of the Kidney Help Trust. Dr. M.K. Mani, Chief Nephrologist, Apollo Hospital, Chennai." Nephrologists sans frontières: Preventing chronic kidney disease on a shoestring

Maharashtra launches multi-pronged drive to curb HIV-AIDS - The Times of India : Note: Andhra Pradesh stands first in terms of the burden of HIV / AIDS in India. 'via Blog this'

Weight loss surgery can do wonders with severely obese people | Northern Voices Online: NVO News Blog : 'via Blog this'