2024 was meant to be a valedictory year for the Centre for Policy Research, one of India’s most venerable independent public policy think tanks. This week, CPR’s chief executive, one of India’s leading development scholars, announced her resignation, the latest step in the gutting of an organisation that had developed a global — not just national — reputation for excellence. …
CPR can be lifesaving for some, futile for others. Using a defibrillator, they found that he was in an abnormal heart rhythm called ventricular fibrillation, a common cause of cardiac arrest that is often responsive to electric shocks. In one study of over 13,000 patients with cardiac arrest, survival was as high as 35% in patients with one of the …
There is a moment in Mary Laura Philpott's beautiful, very funny "Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives" where she must resign herself to being a Baby Spice. And after Philpott's teenage son experienced an abrupt medical crisis, the author of "I Miss You When I Blink" found herself reckoning with the hard truth that she had lost some semblance …
A video of a man desperately trying to save a bird’s life is making netizens emotional. The viral video is from 2017 when a man found a Kookaburra bird struggling to breathe after it hit the glass wall and fell into the pool. In a beautiful ending to the story, the bird became friends with the man and visited his …
