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“Is the scientific paper a fraud?” asked Sir Peter B Medawar, Nobel Laureate in the Listener (12 Sep 1963), 377-78.    W e claim that our research, which is based on the short-term randomised controlled trials (RCT), is very scientific and based on evidence. Is this premise right? Do...

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Premature Menopause Leads to Cardiac Risks? Early menopause has been found to be an additional risk factor for heart attacks, high BP (blood pressure) and many other vascular complications says a study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) recently. However, what worries me is...

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I was just watching news in New York, a few weeks back, and came upon an advertisement. A lawyers’ firm in New York was inviting patients to send information on the side-effects of drugs they were taking to them directly so that they could get the patient compensation from the multinational...

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Alcohol and Fertility When fertility clinics are doing very good business, it is worthwhile to look for avoidable preventive measures for normalising fertility.   Although it might break the rice-bowl of these clinics, it would be good for mankind. Alcohol intake, as little...

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Silvio Grocchetti (IANS) 12 September 2016
Each of an estimated 2.1 million Indians infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) should be getting a cocktail of drugs to prolong their lives and reduce infections, but no more than 44 per cent do, the Minister of Health told the Lok Sabha in April 2016.   In India, the...

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“Unless we put medical freedom into our constitution, a day will come when medicine will organise itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal facility to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American...

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Sugar, the Newfound Devil? For decades now, the establishment, aided and abetted by the industry, has made fat the greatest devil in our disease saga. Suddenly, the US has done a U-turn. Now, they say that fat is our friend and is good; it is sugar that is the culprit. Is it possible to...

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“Do Epidemiologists Cause Epidemics” was a nice editorial in The Lancet, some years ago. The essence of that article was that when society is frightened by any medical scare system—that there is a new epidemic coming to eat you up—even the doctors seem to label every conceivable disease as...

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Single People Are Happier! Single people are usually classified as sad and lonely. On the contrary, a new study shows how they actually have better psychological growth and are more satisfied.   The research, titled “What no one ever told you about being single”, and...

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“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”  — Bertrand Russell   Science should learn from nature and...

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IANS 05 August 2016
Traditional testing for the level of a specific component of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) -- the "good cholesterol" -- may not be a better predictor of the damage or disease in the heart's major blood vessels, says a study.   Failure of drug trials to observe benefits...

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IANS 04 August 2016
The high levels of caffeine in energy drinks may lead to cardiac complications, suggests a case report.   The case, reported in the Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official journal of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), adds to previous reports of adverse...

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Cholesterol Ghost The cholesterol joke on us has been going on for too long and the drug company honchos were laughing their way to their banks, happy that they could fool even the best brains when it comes to health and drugs. Their bank balance will have to come down now. The US...

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“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” — Winston S Churchill   Public health is the health of the public—the common man/woman on the street. Medical education, the governments in all countries and the powers that be are all after sickness-care and the vaccine...

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Medical Fraud: Unauthorised Stem Cell Treatment   A new study in the USA has shown that there are many unauthorised stem cell therapy centres that cater to patients. Some of them will soon be closed down, by law. I have no information on any such centres in India but I do know some in...

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Less Medicine, More Health is the title of a wonderful new book from Gilbert Welch which shows all that I was writing and saying for the past four decades is true. Decades ago, I espoused a new concept called ‘Step Down’ treatment of hypertension. This occurred to me when I first started work...

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Heart Attack, Immune System & Ayurveda A new study, from Imperial College London, finds a link between blood levels of Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies and reduced chances of having heart attacks.   Lead investigator Dr Ramzi Khamis, a consultant cardiologist and clinical...

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The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) on Monday launched its ayurvedic anti-diabetic drug BGR-34.   Aimed at managing type 2 diabetes, BGR-34 has been jointly developed by National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) and Central Institute for Medicinal and Aromatic...

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If a patient gets admitted to an emergency ward on a weekend in the British hospitals s/he is worse off, as senior consultants do not go for ward-rounds, to see the new admissions. So, many short-term cross-sectional studies were carried out to sort this out; but, recently, the editor of the...

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Consuming high-fibre diet consisting of a bowl of bran and some dried apricots in the morning and intake of Vitamin A can help reduce food allergies, finds a new study.   The findings showed that mice allergic to peanuts were protected against the allergy when fed on a high-fibre...

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