Medico Friend Circle Bulletin, 316-317, April-June 2006

Contents: Impressions from a Rural Laboratory - Jan Swasthya Sahyog Surgical Care for Rural India – A Perspective - George Mathew Excessive Use of Screening and Diagnostic Tests - Anant Phadke Are Glass Syringes Inferior? - Jan Swasthya Sahyog, Bilaspur The Quality and Cost of Health Care: Some Notes on the Context - Binayak Sen Quality and Costs of Health Care in the Context of the Goal of Universal Access - Sara Bhattacharji Cost Containment in Trauma Care Services - Jacob John What can we learn from the AIDS Movement? - Anand Zachariah Quality of Medical Care: Public versus Private - Alpana Sagar Some Strategies to Cut Health Care Costs - Vinod Shah Medical Facilities and Health Needs on Wheels: Still Unviable? - Dr. N. Kannan Rational Drug Therapy: Principles, Realities and Road Ahead - Sujith J Chandy Quality of Care: The Ayurvedic Perspective - P. Ram Manohar Quality Assurance in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM): Provisions and Debates - Rajib Dasgupta Financing the NRHM - Ravi Duggal Declaration of Women Healers and CHWs Terrorism, Pfizer Style - James Love Vadodara: The Context of the Dargah Demolition