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Mango: Our Super Functional Food

Prof Dr BM Hegde | 13/6/2013 @ 12:05pm

Recent research has assigned mango “functional foods” status. Mango can help clear up skin, promote eye health, stave off diabetes and even prevent the formation and spread of cancer More

Evils of Tobacco! Only by grit, firm belief and determination one can give it up!

AK Ramdas | 3/6/2013 @ 2:13pm

According to doctors and researchers, more than 40 carcinogenic chemicals with an additional 3,960 chemicals are mixed to get the desired effect in gutka with tobacco. Can we ask the manufacturers to export their entire production? After all, many may have taken a resolution on this World No Tobacco Day More

The Fraud of Cancer Research

Prof Dr BM Hegde | 29/5/2013 @ 2:49pm

Researchers are fabricating their findings to create the illusion of positive findings, instead of publishing their actual results, for the continuation of their steady stream of funding and grants. More

Biomimicry: The science of learning from nature

Prof Dr BM Hegde | 24/5/2013 @ 12:37pm

Respect nature as your mother and learn from her; if you abuse nature, she will kick you in the teeth! Long live mankind learning from nature as our Indian scientists of yore did More

Sunlight: The ‘be all and end all’ of human health

Prof Dr BM Hegde | 22/5/2013 @ 12:39pm

The sun teaches two important lessons: it does not make any difference and shines on everyone, rich or poor showing us the universality of existence. The more important lesson that the sun teaches us is humility, the kingpin for good health and happiness. The sun has been burning for so long without exhausting his fuel! More

All Great Truths Begin as Blasphemies

Prof Dr BM Hegde | 15/5/2013 @ 12:52pm

A new study shows that control trials are flawed. What helps is their faith in the treatment. This puts the onus of patient care on the physician More

Pulse Beat

Prof Dr BM Hegde | 15/5/2013 @ 10:58am

Medical developments from around the world More

Watch out for those bright colours in your food; they are banned

Moneylife Digital Team | 10/5/2013 @ 10:37am

Indian sweet makers go overboard with artificial colouring. Rhodamine B, followed by Orange II and Metanil Yellow, were the two most common non-permitted or banned colours that were used, according to a study by Sumita Dixit More

Born-again family physicians

Prof Dr BM Hegde | 7/5/2013 @ 6:03pm

Doctors are frustrated, patients are angry, hospitals in the west are going broke, insurance companies that are there only to make money are also declaring Chapter eleven by the day. Time to get back to the old, trusted tradition of family doctors? More

Treating Minor Illnesses

Prof Dr BM Hegde | 3/5/2013 @ 4:11pm

Simple home remedies are the best options for minor illnesses like fever, cold, etc More

Is Medicine a Science?

Prof Dr BM Hegde | 18/4/2013 @ 2:54pm

If we are all biologically unique, can a single medicine apply to all in all situations? More

How Medical Education Can Improve

Prof Dr BM Hegde | 9/4/2013 @ 10:43am

Medical education in India is lacking in understanding of minor illnesses in rural areas and the wisdom of Ayurveda More

The role of Ayurveda in complementing allopathy

Prof Dr BM Hegde | 22/3/2013 @ 8:29pm

We need to combine modern medicine, which is effective for emergency care, with less expensive but equally effective methods and Ayurveda fits the bill perfectly More

While the poor pay for the poverty with their lives!

Prof Dr BM Hegde | 20/3/2013 @ 5:52pm

Narendra Modi on TV on 17th March was stressing the point that the rich also get malnutrition. We need such leaders to take this country out of the bottomless pit into which our netas have pushed it More

“Include a disposable bag with the sanitary napkin,” says Parisar

Moneylife Digital Team | 9/3/2013 @ 4:13pm

The products should be truly by women, for women and to protect the health of women! More