By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In my two earlier articles I have told you all about why Sudden Cardiac Deaths (SCDs) occur and what you should know about this deadly problem. Today I will be telling you about what you can do to prevent such deaths and how best you can deal with the…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In the first part of my article on this subject, I highlighted the differences between two types of Sudden Cardiac Death or SCD. To recapitulate what I had said, the first reason for the heart to stop beating is because of the blockage of one of the three tiny…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The sudden passing away of the apparently ‘Fit as a Fiddle’ film actor, Puneeth Rajkumar , the ‘Apple of the Eye’ of every one of his fans, has not only shocked them but most other people too. This is so not only because of the suddenness of the event…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem Just a few days ago, even as our annual Dasara festivities came to an end, SOM published a front-page report which said that the ornate stone balustrades that had been erected along our so-called Raja Marga of dubious fame in our city, had collapsed in not less than fifty-seven places….
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Even as we were all still heaving a sigh of humungous relief that the terrible second wave of Covid-19 has finally been conquered, we seem to be heading for a third confrontation with the monster. Public and Government memory in particular, seems to be awfully short, going by all…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD After reading my last article about my childhood fascination for roadside fortune-tellers and their fortune-telling parrots, many readers responded with different emotions. While some said that they had never known of the existence of such fortune-tellers, many others said that with their lifelong existence on the roadside, their plight…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In my last two articles, I had talked of how I once posed as a palmist while on a train journey with my friends and impressed people, albeit briefly. After reading the first part of my article, many readers who thought that I must really be a capable palm…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In my last article I narrated the story of how during a train journey, exactly 40 years ago, I once amazed all my fellow travellers and shocked a nun who was travelling with us by reading her palm and correctly revealing her past. When she became very emotional and…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week KBG in a very touching epitaph upon her recent demise, wrote about Sr. Annette, a nun of the order of the Carmelite Sisters of St. Theresa and the former Principal of the Teresian College, whom KBG knew as a very close friend over many years. Sr. Annette…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Through my past four articles in this series about the three imperilled landmarks in our city, I have placed before you the sad plight they are now in and how nothing is being done to restore them to their former glory, although they all, along with many other similar…
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