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Jacob Puliyel 20 July 2017
Clinical trial of the new rotavirus vaccine from the Serum Institute of India shows that the vaccine increases the incidence of diarrhoea instead of decreasing it.   The vaccine was field tested in Niger in Western Africa. The results were published in the prestigious New England...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 July 2017
Low-fat Diet Leads to Obesity! Dr Aseem Malhotra is a star cardiologist of the UK who has been getting a lot of attention these days. In late April, he wrote an article in Men’s Health magazine titled, “The Truth About Fat and Sugar is Finally Explained”, that has been reproduced in The...

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M Rajaque Rahman (IANS) 21 June 2017
With weird concoction like "Beer Yoga" getting popular as the next big international fitness craze, the ancient art of inner blossoming is seemingly going topsy-turvy. And as yoga hogs the limelight on its third International Day, the loud call for saving the spirit of the ancient and modern...

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“Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.” — Abe Lemons   The placebo effect has been known to at least some lay people, but few, if any, know of the powerful ‘nocebo’ effect on human health and illness. Nocebo is a...

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“Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.” — Ausonius “Man’s effort to attain immortality is an age-old dream. Of course, that is impossible as it goes against the very grain of nature. However, efforts to keep humans healthy as long...

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  Do You Have a Sweet Tooth? Some of us like sweets and cannot resist them. And there are those who do not like sweets. I belong to the first category. Now, science tells us that those with a sweet tooth have a special genetic make up. Having said that, I have to reiterate that genes...

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“This is the latest whiz kid among cardiac stents. Nowhere else in the world you will have a stent like this. I have done 56 so far. No complications at all, affordable too.”   This is how a cardiologist starts his live streaming video at the National Interventional Council (NIC)...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 27 April 2017
Agency warns that "miracle cures" may also contain dangerous ingredients   A chewable vitamin C that not only wards off colds but also is a “secret weapon” against cancer. Tea bags with cancer-killing properties nearly 10,000 times stronger than chemo. And an ointment that protects...

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Ashok BK (IANS) 18 April 2017
Health plays a crucial role in building your self-confidence, living a longer life, having more energy, being less stressed and feeling emotionally happier. People should adopt preventive healthcare measures at an early age in order to keep rising lifestyle disorders at...

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“Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.” — Isaac Newton   The prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, published a good study on the heart status of aboriginals living in the Amazon forests in Bolivian territory. The aboriginals are the Tsaimane...

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“You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.” — Patch Adams   India ranks 143 out of 188 countries in the UN’s new health-related sustainable development goal (SDG) index. India gets 42 out of 100 marks in this...

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Smoking and Radiotherapy Radiotherapy can have side-effects on a patient. If the person happens to be a smoker, the risks are compounded several-fold. Smoking is the main risk factor for many cancers; now research has shown that cancer treatment also becomes difficult in...

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead   If our planet were really warming, we, in the medical profession, will need to worry as there might be exponential growth of vascular...

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Exercise Can Help Cancer Patients Most cancer patients, if not all, complain of severe fatigue and the usual advice by doctors is to rest and take vitamin tablets. Recent research has shown that the two things that help cancer fatigue are exercise and psychotherapy.   For...

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News reports say that the Centre has shut the gate on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on a critical national health mission. A possible conflict of interest, arising from the Foundation’s ‘ties’ with pharmaceutical companies, is one of the reasons. “All financial ties of the country’s...

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Sun Yourself for Better Eyesight  It is a well-known fact that short-sightedness, or myopia, is becoming increasingly more prevalent among children. The usual culprit that is blamed is their increased computer-screen viewing. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Computer screens do not...

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The human body is an extension of the human consciousness. The latter is what should be considered the human mind. Unlike what we have learnt and are taught, the mind is not inside the brain. The human brain, despite the billions of neurons, or nerve cells, and their connections called...

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Litchi, the Solution to Diabetes? A study published in The Lancet in January 2017 shows a possible link between litchi and diabetes treatment. The study was done by Indian and CDC (Centre for Disease Control and Prevention) scientists. Though it is a good study, it is in the stage of...

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“Scepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.” — Thomas Huxley   Disease and illness are not in one’s genes. They arise from the mind, a part of us that is very little understood. Hence, the need for a healthy mind.   We have been depending too...

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Donald Trump Takes on Vaccine Non-science   Trump has put Robert Kennedy Jr, a democrat, as the head of the vaccine enquiry panel. This is a good move. Mr Kennedy has personal experience of vaccine toxicity and is a vocal critic of the vaccine industry. He has questioned why the...

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