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Pets for Mental Health   Having pets around you is known to aid recovery from some illnesses. Many studies have focused on recovery from physical illnesses. A new study, done in the Bristol-Sheffield area, has shown that having pets does a lot of good to help patients recover from...

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“The most important factors for a long life, I think, are partly in the genes; number two is lifestyle, which includes healthy diet and regular exercise. However, I think too much exercise is also unhealthy because of over-stress; sometimes people who exercise too many hours per day die...

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Cholesterol Guidelines   The subtle efforts of the sugar lobby in the 1950s to show fat in bad light, vis-à-vis sugar, as the main factor behind the killer disease of vessels blocks were eventually found out and the world was disabused of the false myth about fat, by the American Diet...

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This world is a wonder. In the quantum worldview, the world runs on energy—both occult and overt. But the world remains an enigma and what we see here is not the reality. What we see is Adi Shankara’s maya which Nobel Laureate Hans Peter Durr calls Wirklichkiet, a drama, in...

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IANS 25 November 2016
An Australian Nobel Prize-winning scientist is developing a drug to counter allergies and asthma, a statement said on Friday.   Still in its initial stage the the drug can be taken as tablets, capsules, liquids or powder, Xinhua news reported.    Barry Marshall, a microbiology...

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Skipping Dinner Is Healthy, Helps Reduce Weight Jains in India do not eat after sundown. Animal studies did show that time-restricted feeding did help reduce body weight and make the animal healthier. Now, for the first time, human studies performed carefully did show that eating the last...

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Albert Szent Gyorgii, a Nobel Laureate biologist, says that he does not know what cancer is, as he knows that a cancer cell works like a normal cell. He also feels that no one can kill cancer cells without killing normal cells at the same time.    Cancer might be an effort by the body...

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The Sweet Devil I succeeded in getting rid of the devil called cholesterol after 40 years of struggle. Now, the real culprit has come to light that is the ‘white, pure and deadly’: sugar. A book by that title was written by a friend of mine in London—John Yudkin, a professor of nutrition...

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Treating sick human beings as a whole person was the original concept even in the Western medicine system of olden days—even in the 1950s, when I was a student. Thanks to the hi-tech new Western medicine, of complete reductionism, whole person healing (WPH) has almost disappeared from medical...

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Cancer ‘Research’   Sometime back, the ‘famous’ journal Science published an article which upset the players in the field. The study clearly showed that ‘bad luck’ alone determined how unexplained gene mutations occurred in the stem-cell lines to start a cancer. In short, it did say...

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“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.” — Christopher Hitchens    I  was talking with the judges in service at the Karnataka Legal Academy. There were more than 200 of them. One of their own High Court colleagues had spoken to them just before my talk and they...

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Swagata Yadavar (IANS) 13 October 2016
With a genetic predisposition brought to the fore by changing lifestyles, deaths due to diabetes increased 50 per cent in India between 2005 and 2015, and is now the seventh-most common cause of death in the country, up from 11th rank in 2005, according to data published by the Global Burden...

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Industry-Funded Studies in Medical Research First came the great revelation that the sugar lobby had funded studies in the 1960s, to shift the glare from sugar to saturated fat as the main culprit for heart disease. Now, comes the proof that, in the 1990s, the tobacco industry funded many...

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Rajat Arora (IANS) 06 October 2016
The "surgical strike" on the terror launch pads across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir has been considered a mature and unrivalled move by the Indian Army. For a country that is able to handle terrorists brilliantly, shouldn't handling mosquitoes be only child's play?   What...

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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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