In my previous post, I talked about antibiotic resistance, a problem that is making the war on disease even more problematic. Now, I move on to tuberculosis, a disease whose causative organism has been

Deep Cuts Blade cuts the barren land Like a fountain, shoots Out to the desert around Crimson red. The cutter stares at his hands Wondering what took him As life gushes out of him And onto his clothes.

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As a student of medicine in his second year, I've started to spend more time in the hospital as part of my training. I see various cases daily and how they are treated (second year is still more of

A Bloody Nightmare Another boring day at college, as usual, had just come to an end. Sometimes I wondered why I attended classes. Hell, it was better to sleep in my room in a comfortable bed than suffer

Gone Gone with the wind That blows cold and hard Gone with the waves That wrecks my hopes Gone with the sands That buries my sorrowful soul Gone with the last hope I had of meeting someone alike Gone like

A patient presents to the hospital with complaints of tiredness and fatigue. On examination, she appears to be jaundiced as well as anemic. After a few questions, the doctor writes out a form for lab

Lost The skies were clear Unlike my conscience I reflected back into the things I had The things I lost And those that I wrecked. The despair I brought Taking hope from hearts And bursting it, like a balloon

In Deep Waters Poisoned, no doubt. Alarms rang as I walked away from my fallen friend, around whom a crowd was now gathering. Not one of them could help him. Out of the corner of my eye, I sighted two

A Dangerous Visit I left the foundry and got back into the vehicle, in deep thought, so deep that I almost walked into two pits and one shutdown machine. I decided to let autopilot control this trip. But

The Hunt Begins I took the corpses of Kyle and Bart and laid them in the back of the vehicle. Rigor mortis would soon set in. I reloaded my guns and holstered them. The explosives appeared to be assembled

An Unseen Threat The footsteps sounded distinctly heavy. It was either a very heavy man or a robot. I looked around in vain for places to hide. None seemed to present itself. The sounds were much closer.

YEAR 2342 Medical science had advanced rapidly towards the end of the 21st century. At the beginning of the 22nd, the moon had been colonized successfully. Towards the middle 22nd century, a new country

Muhammad Ali is one of the most popular boxers, or sportspersons for that matter, of our times. Shortly after Ali's retirement from boxing in 1981, rumours began circulating about his health. His speech

He sighed. "You do not understand. Perhaps some glances from your own life?" Before I could say a word, I was now at the Greater Gate of the Temple. The guards lay dead, scorched by a vengeance

Jamie, a 13 year old boy, was a huge fan of racing games. One day, he sat down to play one of his many games on his laptop. As the game loaded, he plugged in the charger. He sat down, about to begin the

Pain surged through me. With great power comes great pain. I could feel the energy struggling to be released. What I needed to do was release it and bind it to my will. If only it were as easy to do it

My eyes were dazzled by the brilliance of the power in front of me. In the centre of the chamber stood a great crystal, graceful yet immensely strong, made of the purest ice. Magical energies flowed through

I turned back. Not a great idea I told myself. But then was no other choice, right? I came to the corridor where I had been hiding. I went the opposite way of which I had come. A young witch lay dead in

I hid behind a pillar. Heard a scream. Definitely one of the young witches. It sounded so horrible...like that of a flower nipped in the bud. My blood boiled but there was hardly anything I could do. Both