Editorial Blogs

A Week in Kasurdi – Lessons in Health and Humanity (SIMPLe Study)

As a medical cadet at Armed Forces Medical College, I've often sat through lectures and pondered over data, disease models, and national health statistics. But nothing prepared me for the raw reality of disease until I stepped into the sun-drenched fields of Kasurdi, a small village in Western Maharashtra, as part of Project SIMPLe—Screening Intervention for Myeloma and Prevention...

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SMILE – Sickle Cell Stories that Changed Me

Before joining the SMILE study (Sickle cell Morbidity evaluation) at AFMC, I thought I understood what “inherited disorders” meant. But it took one story—Ruhi’s story—to remind me how genetics can shape destinies, and how hope can reshape them.

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