Supermoms need superfoods

Mother’s Day is usually a day for kids to appreciate the maternal care they receive. But it is also a time for mothers to think about their own nutrition needs to help them multi-task This weekend, as we celebrate Mother’s Day, let us worry a little about the health of moms, especially when their kids […]

PAIN IS THE ONLY CONSTANT

If you have a medical condition for which current medical science has no answers, learn to live with it, and take care of your mental health For every ailment under the sun There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.” […]

Cell control

The central government is trying to prevent the potential misuse of stem cell therapy by amending the Drugs and Cosmetics Act Since Dolly the sheep was cloned from an adult somatic cell in 1996, experiments using stem cell therapies and products to treat diseases have grown exponentially. But with great hope comes an equally great […]

TREAT YOUR BODY WELL

How much is too much treatment? Sometimes you have to decide for yourself, based on what you’ve read or the experiences of other patients More people are killed by chemotherapy than by cancer, says a recent news report. Well, it may be a typical media simplification of a carefully worded scientific report. But it is […]

THE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE

“I laughed so hard that tears rolled down my legs.” This was the quote that greeted the patients who lay down on the examination bed of my dear attending (senior doctor) at Cleveland Clinic Florida during my fellowship days, written as it was on a sheet of paper that she had so thoughtfully stuck on […]