Health by GhatakP

Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt is an acclaimed physician well known for his path breaking and sometimes controversial modes of therapy like injecting honey into patients or using a substance extracted from the crest of cockerels. He is probably most well known for his association with an entity since 1977. He has recently resigned from his post there after he was reportedly blamed for some reverses suffered citing a "damaged relationship of trust”. Where has he resigned from?

Which word for a very common medical symptom was named after the Greek word for ship, the vehicle that was most associated with the symptom in ancient times?

The citation for TIME’s Person of the year 2014 has the subtitle – “the ones who answered the call.” So TIME’s Person of the year 2014 is …… ?

Who have launched an ambitious new company called Calico or California Life Company in 2013 which focuses on trying to overcome illness, aging, diseases and yes- ultimately death?

The history of the word originates from Roman times, during which a criminal charge meant presenting the case before a group of public individuals in the forum. Both the person accused of the crime and the accuser would give speeches based on their sides of the story and the case would be decided based on that. Which word, derived from the Latin for “of or before the forum”?

____ was a 18th-century mystic, who used a somnambulist named Cesare to commit murders in northern Italy towns. A German asylum director in the early 20th century, in his determination to understand the earlier ______, experiments on a somnambulist admitted to the asylum, who becomes his Cesare. The director calls himself Dr _______ and takes off with Cesare in a box and starts a sideshow at town fairs. Thus begins a gruesome series of murders. Or so we are told! Fill in the blanks(all blanks same)

He got his medical degree from Ho Chi Minh School of Medicine. His ideas are in fact completely contrary to medical knowledge and ethics as such he is legally required to put quotation marks around his title of Dr. He wrote a bestselling book, The Cigarette Diet, and among his beliefs is that medicine is not a science. He was chosen as the Surgeon General of the United States. Identify this doctor.

In 1987, UNICEF released a special report, proclaiming ____ as the greatest medical breakthrough of the 20th century. It said “No other single medical breakthrough of the 20th century has had the potential to prevent so many deaths over such a short period of time and at so little cost.” It has been estimated that over 50 million lives have been saved in the past 40 years by the implementation of _____ . Fill in the blanks(all blanks same)

Who controversially claimed that the main reason he didn’t win the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine was that inspite of being a supporter of racial equality all his life – he was ultimately white?

Who considers his research and his seminal book on the subject of Autonomic Failure to be his proudest achievement –though he might be more famous for something he did as a medical student?

Booker prize winning Irish Novelist J G Farrel wrote an early novel in 1965 called “The Lung” based on his own experiences of suffering from a particular disease and the painful process of cure. So what disease did he suffer from ?

What change did writer and producer Robert Doherty justify thus – “One reason is to debunk this idea that a man and a woman can't be together on screen especially without needing to be together sexually or in love or whatever, and this is really about the evolution of a friendship and how that happens. Watching that should be as much the story as the mysteries that you see week in and week out about who killed who?”