The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
Anyone who is mapping your genomes now, may actually tell you if any genetically identifiable disease is written into your genes. Whether you like it or not. Some folks think that this is not a good thing – and argue that these guidelines are bad.
Is it a doctor’s responsibility to tell you if a disease is written on your genetic code? And if so, do you really want him or her to tell you? Thanks to new guidelines by the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, this may soon be a reality for many Americans. Last week, the national organization — made up of genetics specialists — published a report urging doctors who sequence a patient’s full set of genes to also test them 24 genetic conditions, and alert the patient, regardless of the patient’s wishes to know or not.
Arthur Caplan, head of the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU Langone Medical Center sees the new guideline as potentially problematic.
Inga Barnello was genetically tested for breast cancer 12 years ago, and would love to know the 24 diseases that she might have. But she’s not sure that doctors should, as a practice, give this information to patients unless they ask for it.
There are issues of whether you can handle the news or not. And also, that these kind of results are more probability as opposed to certainty.
Personally I find the arguments of these guys rather nonsensical. Hiding that some disease would – with highly probability – hit you, is only going to prolong the preventive actions.
Guns trained at Russia and everyone engaging with Russia cast as 'evil'. Saudis heckled and threatened. China's major growing industry was brought down overnight and Indian leadership demonized. What is the Biden administration planning for?
Waging Wars - Covert and Overt - by the United States has a formula. Media backs the establishment in planning and execution. A detailed analysis of the various mechanisms and players
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