Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink! This could very soon turn into a global reality according to the UN. Some 80 countries and 40 per cent of the world's population are already in the throes of a 'water stress'. Said Wally N'Dow, secretary general of the forthcoming …
ROHINI's bleeding wounds and mildly deformed fingers - afflicted by leprosy - had initially evoked the traditional reaction of fear and contempt from fellow villagers. But she and thousands of others belonging to Madhya PradesWs (mp) Rajanandagaon district have now been rescued from the evil clutches of leprosy. The cursed …
A slightly unsavoury idea but urine has actually been found to cure several illnesses. And this belief drew hundreds of delegates to the three-day long First World Conference on Auto Urine Therapy (UT) held in Goa in late February. UT advocates more than just drinking urine a few times during …
Insulin, the pancreas-produced hormone that prevents diabetes when given intravenously to patients with severe burns, speeds up the healing process (New Scientist, Voll48, No 2006). In the case of severe burns, the stress hormones that are released break down the body's sugar reserves, releasing large amounts of sugar in the …
WHILE large doses of the synthetic counterparts of several vitamins are known to be toxic to adults, the large intake of one of these is now known to play havoc with the well-being of unborn and newborn babies. Currently under fire is vitamin A. Found in dairy products, liver and …
Scientists in Switzerland have Begun preparations to test a new oral vaccine for stomach ulcers. The vaccine is the result of a joint venture between the Boston-based biotechnology group Oravaz and Pasteur Merieux Serums and Vaccins of France. The companies have obtained protocol approval for the tests from the Food …
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A NEW technique known as minimally invasive direct coronary bypass surgery has been successfully tested last month at Lenox Hill hospital in Manhattan, us. Valavanur A Subramanian performed the delicate surgery on the heart as it continued to beat, instead of putting the patient on a heart-lung machine. This was …
No MORE blood need be spilt by patients "Cldergoing surgery for brain tumours arterio-venous malformations. "r,draprastha Apollo hospital, New Mqlpelhi, %ill shortly introduce the x-knife Tn India, only the third such in the world. It s based on the stereotactic radio system which involves accurate crery of x-rays to a …
MERCURY thermometers will become a thing of the past in hospitals within the next few years if trends favouring alternative devices continue. National Health Services (NHS) Supplies, the special health authority in the UK which provides goods and services for the NHS, says, the number of mercury thermometers which were …
RECESSION, debt and oil crisis are common features of the present decade, which crippled the economy of many countries. The decade expe rienced very little stimulation and support to the health system. It is within this context that interes in the sustainability of healthcare in developing counte emerged, and questions …
Beauty conscious people now need not lose sleep over scars. Wounds from injury or an operation. more often than not leave behind ugly reminders in the form of scars. Now, A stitch in time researcher Mark Ferguson at the University of Manchester UK, offers hope in the form of a …
WHILE an alcoholic mother-to-be guzzles her drinks happily, the child in the womb bears the brunt. Heavy drinking during pregnancy plays havoc with the normal development of the foetus, setting in a set of birth defects called foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Although identified first in 1968, FAS remains an enigma …
A commonly consumed oilseed northeastern India - Perii.- frutescens or Hanshi - has bee- found to reduce blood cholestero i, Researchers at the Hyderabad- basec National Institute of Nutrition haN e shown that Perilla oil in the diet reduces LDL cholesterol and trig - erides -fatty acids -whose anipic presence …
SOMETIMES the mode of administering a vaccine into the human body may affect its efficacy considerably. This has been reinforced by American scientists working on the effectiveness of polio vaccine. According to recent reports it is being sugges ed that there should be a gradual transition from oral polio vaccine …
IT is quite a common practice to pop in iron tablets to regain that glow of health. The efficacy of such iron supplementation has been questioned lately, due to a dismal record of its treating iron cleficiency. Researchers set out to find ways to improve iron supplementation programme, and one …
Mandyam Kumar, an expert at the Siddha Medical Research Institute, Bangalore, has developed an injectable medicine - "Solar Drop" - which claims to cure patients with full-blown AIDS cases and other viral infections. An extract bf 13 herbs, the Solar Drop is "an immunomodulator that helps in proper 'functioning of …
THE threat of malaria has been an omnipresent phenomenon in Assam and the Northeast, but the disease struck in the region with particular virulence early this year. Epidemic-hit Sonitpur witnessed a typical government response to the barrage of critical reports in the press: the chopping block was readied; the health …
Only one-fifthy of the total number of lymphoma (tumor of the lymphid tissue or lymph nodes) cases reported in northern India are women says on going US-sponsored study at the ALL India Institute of Medical Scitnoes (AIIMS), New Delhi. Doctors at the Institute have examined 200 patients from several north …
ALL over the world, thousands of hypodermic syringes are used daily in hospitals and then disposed of. But whether they are disposed of safely - given the risks of injury, and perhaps infection - it is not easy to tell. Needles which are often placed in a "sharps" box or …
