Is Bocavirus the culprit?
As Sri Lanka’s MRI undertakes a pilot study using real-time and cutting-edge technology to see whether this micro-organism is behind severe acute respiratory infection in children, Kumudini Hettiarachchi talks to Consultant Medical Virologist Dr. Jude Jayamaha This bug was not known around the world until 2005 and even now there is uncertainty whether it is [...]
Those aches that can leave you drained
I come across numerous patients who have had body aches for years. They have had many visits to the doctor, to find out what causes tiredness, lack of sleep, headaches, depression, forgetfulness, painful muscles and joints. Arthritis has been ruled out in many cases, so what actually is the reason for all these symptoms? Fibromyalgia [...]
A heart-to-heart; woman-to-woman plea
It was straight from the heart of one woman to another and also to health authorities not only in Sri Lanka but the whole of Asia. “We need to educate the Asian woman, give her access and time for risk factor control, advise her to get into simple practical clothing and stress to her the [...]
Learning to deal with ‘rare diseases’
Numerous are the issues and challenges faced in this particular sphere of medicine –diseases that are found in few and far between children and the stigma surrounding them. It is through the eyes, ears and experiences of Prof. Harendra de Silva who is Chairman of the Rare Diseases Forum of the Sri Lanka College of [...]
Be careful what you wish for this new year!
“Beware of what you wish for in youth, because you will get it in middle life.” – Goethe Be Careful What You Wish For is the title of one of Jeffery Archer’s best-selling novels. But the phrase is much older and has been attributed to an old Chinese proverb. We are all familiar with the [...]