By: Carolyn Kavita Tauro CNS
Asthma patients who also smoke have worse asthma attacks than nonsmokers. The airways are less sensitive to corticosteroid

 By: Alfie D'Souza, Illinois
Health experts say that watermelon is important for optimal eye health and boosts immunity by enhancing the infection

 By: Cimona Sebastian
We rush to a dentist only when a dental emergency pops up. Regular dental checkups are important to avoid various other

 By: Dr Shoma A Chatterji
In Gujarat, people living with HIV are looking at a new therapy – marriage within the community of HIV positive people.

 By: Dr Shoma A Chatterji - CNS
It is said that women who are addicted to cigarettes and other tobacco products are at increased health risks by reason of their biology

 By: Shrea Kapoor
Ashifa Dharamsi is a registered dental hygienist in Canada focusing in geriatrics. She has taken her practice, Strictly Prevention Inc, out

 By: From: Tapash Kumar
He's a name in healthcare in the U.A.E., but Thumbay Moideen, who made Dubai his home 14 years ago and started Thumbay Group in 1998, has demonstrated his versatility in business by making

 By: Edmond Fernandes
In the era where healthcare delivery means corporate business, the KG Hospital stands out unmatched, unparalleled and electrifying. We see our times openly question the credibility

 By: Nanditha, Manipal
Soft drinks are today's trend; you can call them 'fashion' especially among the youth. Do you know that this colourful liquid does not do a bit good to you? Instead, they add up dangerous toxins to your body. The soft drink tastes extremely good and gives a feeling of being refreshed. Instead of occasionally having these drinks, people these days have started using it as an alternative for water and other natural drinks. There has been a remarkable rise in the consumption of the soft drinks and much of the credit goes to the advertisements and Youngsters are mainly targeted through these advertisements and it is them who are going to

 By: Richard Lasrado, Mangalore
For the common man, being overweight and being obese could mean the same. But there is a subtle difference. Being overweight is 'to weigh more than is normal, necessary or allowed, especially having more body weight than is considered normal or healthy for one's age or build', while being obese is 'having increased body weight, caused by excessive accumulation of fat'. Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy

 By: Dr. B. M. Hegde, India
One of the readers of Mangalorean.com, Mr. Prabhu, wanted me to write an article on the above topic for the benefit of the younger generation which has found itself suddenly in the midst of affluence, thanks to some newer industry's body shopping spree in India. He was worried that they fall prey to early onset of killer diseases, which I do not dispute completely. Writing the first textbook of medicine in the year 1773, a brilliant young man

 By: Dr. B. M. Hegde, India
The above caption is one of the many brilliant sayings of that great brain, Sir William Osler. In the twenty first century, I could only echo that great sentiment as a truism, despite all the tall talk about the “so called" evidence based medicine. Napoleon Bonaparte went one step further, but one could argue that he was not a physician. Napoleon was at the receiving end of such a medical practice in Persia where he died. “Medicine is

 By: Dr. B. M. Hegde, India
"Knowledge advances NOT by repeating known facts but, by REFUTING false dogmas," wrote Karl Popper years ago. With the advent of chemical molecules in treatment of diseases, starting with Nujol, in the early part of the last century, modern medicine seems to be bogged down to pharmaceuticals

 By: Dr. B. M. Hegde, India
Ever since Cicero wrote his De Divinatione, people in every walk of life have been trying to predict the future as the future is where human kind is headed. Bob Dole, in his 1996 campaign speeches did say that accurately: “This is about the future.” “That’s where this country is headed.” Modern medical science has been in the forefront of future predictions, following on the astrologers of yore, about their patients which, incidentally, can never

 By: Dr. B. M. Hegde, India
The word cancer brings on goose pimples in many of us. We are being bombarded with so many myths in this area; most of them make the gullible public believe in them and get scared. It is not for nothing that this is done. Cancer management in modern medicine is one of the multibillion dollar business opportunities both for the medical establishment and the pharmaceutical companies. Open a newspaper or look at the TV, chances are that one gets to hear a celebrity-a film star, an athlete or even a VIP goading you to get yourself

 By: Dr. B. M. Hegde, India
Aspirin, known to us for more than three hundred and fifty years, was discovered serendipitously by Europeans. Peruvians in the 15th century, when malaria was rampant there killing millions, were looking for a cure. Peruvians believed that God would give the medicine where he gives the disease. They took to the forests

 By: Dr. B. M. Hegde, India
"Knowledge" said Karl Popper, " advances NOT by repeating known facts, but by refuting false dogmas". One cannot agree more. Modern medicine abounds in dogmas: many of them have not been scientifically audited. Science is change. Every single hypothesis is true unless refuted by newer knowledge. Knowledge today in the medical field is replaced by information

 By: Dr. B. M. Hegde, India
The heading should not delude anyone to think that modern medicine is poison and should be avoided. One should try and live, if possible, avoiding the ravages of modern medicine, but under certain circumstances it could be life saving, more so in an emergency situation. Modern medicine has many quick fixes that might

 By: Dr. B. M. Hegde, India
Politics and the English Language is a fascinating paper that George Orwell wrote in 1946 to show how politics could be twisted and sold as a palatable game to the gullible public by the cunning writers of those days. They used many Greek and Latin words in their writings to hide the truth.

 By: Dr. B. M. Hegde, India
I wonder as to how much longer will medicine's flagship educational events (like warning of epidemics) fly the colours of the drug industry? Isn't this a new avatar of the common influenza that we have had for centuries? Every year a few lakhs of people die of all castes