North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences

Quality of media reporting of suicidal behaviour in India

Background: India has a suicide rate of 18–21 fatalities per 100,000 people (compared to a global rate of 11 per 100,000), constituting around 28% of all suicides worldwide. Conscientious media coverage of suicide is one of the pillars of the World Health Organization's (WHO) lif...

Oral Mucous Patch in a Case of Secondary Syphilis: An Atypical Manifestation

Known as the great imitator, syphilis can present in various ways, affecting multiple organs, including the oral mucosa, and mimicking different diseases, making diagnosis challenging for clinicians. Clinicians should consider secondary syphilis in the differential diagnosis of u...