HEALTH IN ERA OF DESIGNER HORMONES, GENETIC ENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Abstract: The modern day science and technology hold promise for better health in future. Novel solutions to the present-day health problems are becoming available through unprecedented breakthrough in clinical endocrinology in form of designer hormones, gene modification through genetic engineering, and advanced pharmaceutics through nanotechnology. The last few decades have also seen significant progress in information technology and bio-informatics expanding database of catalogued knowledge, which has helped in opening new vistas of biomedical research and advancing health-related technology.

AIDS and the Morality Issue:    

MADHYA: the midage     AHIMA Journals      Janury – March 2004 

Abstract: The morality issue complicates the public understanding of AIDS in many ways. Traditionally sexual permissiveness though accepted in the socities of East, has been regarded as a socially deviant behavior. Thus, AIDS become one of the wages of sin. The patient is not a sufferer but a sinner, and a subject of ridicule not sympathy. The morality issue clouds the public mind, a clear understanding of the disease is denied.  The hypothesis is that if the morality issue in relation to AIDS can be diluted from the public mind a clearer understanding and more effective effort can be made possible which will be helpful at the primary as well as the secondary levels of prevention. The role of the people’s organizations is important in spreading a healthy awareness of the human sexuality and shaping the public attitude towards the disease for more efficient prevention and treatment.