<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="Dr Vishal Rao"><item><title>Cultivating a grassroots scientific temperament</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/cultivating-a-grassroots-scientific-temperament-2/</link><pubDate>October 14, 2023, 8:48 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Artificial-Intelligence-and-threats-to-the-world.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Given the ever-evolving nature of knowledge creation and curation, the long-term and broader societal expectations from that knowledge undergo continual mutations. Consequently, social, economic and cultural development of a nation are steered thr...</excerpt></item><item><title>Ethical, legal, scientific, and spiritual perspectives of life, death and beyond</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/cultivating-a-grassroots-scientific-temperament-2/</link><pubDate>October 14, 2023, 8:48 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Artificial-Intelligence-and-threats-to-the-world.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The proposition of accepting death when life seems futile is largely controversial given its ethical, legal, scientific, and spiritual connotations. The legal perspective is the most furiously debated around the difficult question: Should we allow...</excerpt></item><item><title>NGT order on cigarette, bidi butts sensible, timely</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/cultivating-a-grassroots-scientific-temperament-2/</link><pubDate>October 14, 2023, 8:48 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Artificial-Intelligence-and-threats-to-the-world.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Did you know that cigarette and bidi butts are environmentally hazardous? Recently, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) passed several recommendations for the safe disposal of this tinty, but ecologically dangerous waste.Every day, millions of cigar...</excerpt></item><item><title>Benefits of Stress on Wound Healing</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/cultivating-a-grassroots-scientific-temperament-2/</link><pubDate>October 14, 2023, 8:48 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Artificial-Intelligence-and-threats-to-the-world.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Over the past few years, we have developed an excessive level of anxiety associated with the effects of stress on our lives. While much has been discussed about stress and stress management, it is essential to remember that&amp;nbsp; stress can be goo...</excerpt></item><item><title>Scalpel and intuition</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/scalpel-and-intuition/</link><pubDate>July 12, 2022, 3:58 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/science-intuition.jpg</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>Random notes on the surgical symphony that thrives on the cusp of intellect, instinct, and intuition. </excerpt></item><item><title>Passive smoking is an active and acute problem</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/cultivating-a-grassroots-scientific-temperament-2/</link><pubDate>October 14, 2023, 8:48 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Artificial-Intelligence-and-threats-to-the-world.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Secondhand smoking or passive smoking is the inhalation of a combined smoke from the burning end of a cigarette, as also the smoke exhaled by smokers. Secondhand smoke contains more than 7000 chemicals of which over several hundred are toxic and o...</excerpt></item><item><title>Passive smoking is an active and acute problem</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/cultivating-a-grassroots-scientific-temperament-2/</link><pubDate>October 14, 2023, 8:48 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Artificial-Intelligence-and-threats-to-the-world.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Secondhand smoking or passive smoking is the inhalation of a combined smoke from the burning end of a cigarette, as also the smoke exhaled by smokers. Secondhand smoke contains more than 7000 chemicals of which over several hundred are toxic and o...</excerpt></item><item><title>Karmic carcinogens and cancer: A surgeon’s perspective</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/karmic-carcinogens-and-cancer-a-surgeons-perspective/</link><pubDate>December 10, 2021, 1:43 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/8288e0ec_6638_P_1_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The Karmic carcinogens that we are inducing into the environment today have emanated from the materialistic and short-sighted philosophy of ‘unlimited, more, and instant’. We are craving for an unlimited buffet when our bodies’ needs are essential...</excerpt></item><item><title>ROBOTICS HEAD &amp;#038; NECK SURGERIES: A VERITABLE GAME-CHANGER</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/cultivating-a-grassroots-scientific-temperament-2/</link><pubDate>October 14, 2023, 8:48 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Artificial-Intelligence-and-threats-to-the-world.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Head and Neck cancers comprise nearly 30% of the overall cancer incidence in India, which is roughly about 10 lac cases per year. In other words, one out of every three cancers pertains to the head and neck region. In the 70s and 80s, surgery was ...</excerpt></item><item><title>PANDEMIC IN PERSPECTIVE: EMERGENCY BEYOND EDITORIALS</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/pandemic-in-perspective-emergency-beyond-editorials/</link><pubDate>June 4, 2021, 8:11 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Covid-1-1.jpg</image><category>India</category><excerpt>‘Leadership from behind’ is the need of the hour, where scientists and doctors lead from the front in laboratories and hospitals, while politicians and activists lend support from behind, across government and public platforms.</excerpt></item><item><title>WHY GENETIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM IS CRUCIAL TO FIGHT NEW COVID VARIANTS</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/why-genetic-surveillance-system-is-crucial-to-fight-new-covid-variants/</link><pubDate>April 27, 2021, 3:29 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/b72c4001_2463_P_8_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>The ‘double mutant’ variant of coronavirus is likely to trigger an ‘intense second wave’. It is estimated that this mutated Covid variant is over 50% more transmissible and 60% more lethal.
</excerpt></item><item><title>GENDER EQUILIBRIUM IN INNOVATIONS: A TOP PRIORITY IN HEALTHCARE</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/cultivating-a-grassroots-scientific-temperament-2/</link><pubDate>October 14, 2023, 8:48 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Artificial-Intelligence-and-threats-to-the-world.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>It was a forthright conversation with a friend of mine, a breast cancer survivor, that first drew my attention to the pressing need for gendered innovations in healthcare. When she mentioned that breast cancer caused her great anguish, I presumed ...</excerpt></item><item><title>HOW TO ENVISION A HEALTHY FUTURE FOR INDIA</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/how-to-envision-a-healthy-future-for-india/</link><pubDate>January 1, 2021, 3:42 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/667218a4_1181_P_3_mr-1.jpg</image><category>India</category><excerpt>For a healthier country, we need to strategise and implement policies for a holistic healthcare system. This should take into account preventive care, strengthening primary healthcare, fostering multi-sectoral cooperation, promoting low-cost medic...</excerpt></item><item><title>WHY NOVEL CORONAVIRUS IS SO ‘SUCCESSFUL’ AT SURVIVING</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/why-novel-coronavirus-is-so-successful-at-surviving/</link><pubDate>December 30, 2020, 3:43 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/8635c691_1145_P_2_mr-1.jpg</image><category>India</category><excerpt>The new mutated strains of the novel coronavirus indicate its adaptability and resistance to changing environments. But while scientists figure out ways to tackle the virus, it is important that we as individuals do not let our guard down.</excerpt></item><item><title>Heal your cancer, don’t fight it</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/cultivating-a-grassroots-scientific-temperament-2/</link><pubDate>October 14, 2023, 8:48 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Artificial-Intelligence-and-threats-to-the-world.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The moment the word ‘cancer’ is mentioned &amp;#8212; whether in casual conversations or serious discussions &amp;#8212; a pall of gloom invariably pervades the vicinity and such abject negativity is surrounding the disease. The play of individual destini...</excerpt></item><item><title>Shaping frugal &amp;#038; disruptive innovations for India</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/shaping-frugal-disruptive-innovations-for-india/</link><pubDate>August 20, 2020, 4:15 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/bulb1.png</image><category>India</category><excerpt>The foundations of frugal and disruptive innovations will thrive on value-based education. When innovators are led by benevolence ahead of breakthroughs, the innovation becomes transformative.</excerpt></item></author></feed>