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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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“I have said that the soul is no more than the body. And I say that the body is not more than the soul.” — Whitman in 1855   “Medicine is flying blind. Thousands of medical journal articles are published every month on potential new treatments and diagnostic tests. Precious few of...

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Anaemia May Be a Reason For Hearing Loss A recent paper in Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that anaemia could be one of the significant causes of hearing loss, at all ages but more so in the elderly. This was revealed in a large study done at Penn State University...

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Intensive-care units (ICUs), a relatively recent invention in Western medical emergency care management of critically ill patients, have been of dubious value ever since these were introduced on the logic that more care is better care. The truth, however, is otherwise.   In essence,...

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Rajat Arora (IANS) 05 January 2017
It is easy to preach, hard to practise. Though, as a doctor, I pretty much practise what I preach, there are instances that knuckles me to the fact that I am still human!   Nevertheless, when I had a patient recently ask if doctors resolve to beat their long hours of work and give...

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Will Correct Treatment of Mental Illnesses Reduce Societal Violence? It is well known that mental illness and violence are closely connected. Now, a new study finds out more about it.   “This work builds on an earlier study that found almost one-third of adults with mental illness...

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“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”  — Winston Churchill   It is my firm conviction that nature has provided us with a very robust immune system which I call the inner healer. It is geared to heal most, if not all, ailments that man is heir to, under most...

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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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