American Psychiatric Association recently presented a study linking (prenatal) influenza exposure with schizophrenia. Children born to women who contract the flu during pregnancy appear to have an increased risk for schizophrenia later in life.
Exercise reduces the chances of a having a heart attack. Heart attack patients have a higher risk of having another episode if they are also depressed or socially isolated.
Progeria – a rare disease that causes premature aging may hold the key to stroke and heart ailments for the general population, British researchers say.
A new study at The Ohio State University Medical Center suggests that a loss of 2 or more inches in height during adulthood can predict osteoporosis in the hip, and thus the risk for hip fractures in elderly women.
To find out the most similimum drug after getting the totality (qualitative & quantitative data) of the given case. With a good case taking more than half the battle is won. Dr Hahnemann has clearly mentioned some instructions regarding case taking in the 5th edition of Organon’s Aphorism no.43-104, 139-141,150-152,147-171.Also in the aphorism no he has cautioned us to be unprejudiced observer. That means; before case taking, the physician should be unconditioned with respect to his moods, unbiased with respect to his drugs, flexible like amoeba to take 100% impression. This and above all we should be a KEEN OBSEVER.
Renal patients are often advised to eat very low amounts of sodium, potassium, phosphorus and protein, depending on the stage of renal disease. This does not indicate a NO potassium diet however! Low salt foods are indicated for heart patients as well. Diabetics are advised
to consume frequent smaller meals.
Scientists in Italy and the US have discovered that curries can help reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. A study of curcumin, a chemical compound found in most Indian dishes from korma to vindaloo, has revealed it can stop the onset of the brain-damaging disease.
Initially, there were no drugs available to treat HIV/AIDS, but substantial numbers of infected individuals collaborated, shared experiences and found an alternative way. Without medications, people incorporated proper nutrition, exercise and complementary therapies into their lives. People have been successful at staying healthy and/or having wellness restored time after time using complementary therapies, with or without HIV/AIDS medications. We must acknowledge and give credibility to this reality! We must acknowledge all of the many contributions by people infected with HIV. They are the same people who raised funds and started AIDS organizations, thereby providing and developing treatment libraries, which contained files on all the alternative treatments used by people living with HIV/AIDS. When HIV/AIDS drugs did become available, HIV/AIDS research and drug treatment information was included in these libraries.
Among more than 1,700 men with and without prostate cancer, those who ate the most fiber — particularly from vegetable sources — had a lower risk of developing the disease, Italian researchers found. The benefit was “moderate,” they report in the International Journal of Cancer, but the findings suggest that at least some forms of fiber offer prostate cancer protection.
IIHP Khanna (Pb) unit organised one day audio-vedio seminar on Treatment and managmnt of Tuberculosis with classical homoeopathy on 28th March at Shiv Ashram, Khanna. The hall with capacity of 150 was 100% full. Delegates not only from Punjab ut Chandigarh, Haryana, U.P, Delhi, Rajasthan, H.P, J&K etc. states were present.