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Can ASPIRE program help reducing prevalence of smoking in India?

Smoking in public places was prohibited nationwide from October 2008. According to WHO, 12% of the world’s smokers are in India and more than one million people die every year...

Dr Sidney Farber- A Father of Modern Chemotherapy

Dr Sidney Farber, a world-renowned paediatric pathologist, made major contributions to his field but is known as “Father of modern chemotherapy”. He hypothesized that...

Distributions in Medical Statistics

Distribution is a most commonly used concept in research and acquaints with the shape of the data. Most of the time when a researcher collects data, S/he wants to know about the...

Larger Sample Size Is Better?

The sample size is called a sample as it represents part of the study group (or study population) whose responses to treatment, opinions and behaviour we care about in medical...

Statistical Summaries- Made Easy

Thomas A. Lang and Michelle Secic said in their book entitled How to Report Statistics in Medicine that “The problem of statistical errors in the medical literature is...

Biostatistics – An Overview

Statistical revolution in biology started with the work of Karl Pearson in the 1890s. Charles Darwin documented biological variation as a fundamental aspect of life and gave a...

Biorepositories: Cornerstone for translational research

Biorepositories or Biobanks contain biological samples and associated information like clinical-pathological, epidemiological and biomolecular data that are essential for the...

A Multifaceted Pathologist- Rudolf Virchow

Rudolf Virchow was an eminent pathologist and politician, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential physicians in history. He is called  ‘Father of modern...

NITRIC OXIDE (NO): The Fountain of Youth…

“Ponce de León was a 16th century Spanish explorer in search of the fountain of youth, a source of magical water capable of reversing the aging process.  Could Nitric Oxide...