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India is a big country with 1.22 billion people, the population is predicted to have more than 1.53 billion by the end of 2030 and a substantive percentage are still illiterate; Accessibility of health care is non-uniform, with healthcare facilities at equivalence with the best in the world at the the metros and non-existent to rudimentary in many rural areas where patients are at the mercy of ‘Doctors’ who still practice traditional methods. Also only a very small group of population are covered by health / medical insurance. ​ Most hematologists conceive that Chronic Myeloid Leukemia / Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is the commonest leucaemia in adults in India. CML is a myeloproliferative disorder characterised by increased growth of the granulocytic cell line without the loss of their capacity to differentiate. Accordingly, the peripheral blood cell profile shows an increased number of granulocytes and their immature precursors, including occasional blast cells. CML progres...

New Hybrid Rice Breeding: Rice along with wheat and maize are considered as the three main leading crops in the world. ​ In combination they directly provide more than 50% of the total calories consumed by the whole human population. Among the three, rice contribute 21% of the global human per capita energy and 15% of per capita protein. Also, protein in rice is ranked high in nutritional quality than in cereals where protein content is modest. Other than protein, rice also consists of minerals, vitamins, and fiber, but during milling process all constituents except carbohydrate are reduced. Adaptability of rice makes it a suitable crop for all most all climates. Rice is cultivated in all most all parts of the earth, except Antarctica. At present, rice has thousands of strains available in the market and it can be raised with other crops and food sources, therefore it is helpful in encouraging biodiversity. Scientists from across the world are working hard to improve the quali...

Summer Care | Prevent Heat-Related Illness: It is summer time and most of us know that extreme heat can make us sick, but most of us believe that heat related illnesses happen only to people who work under extreme heat conditions. But, it is easy to develop heat stroke while sitting perfectly still on the couch, especially at times when the mercury is soaring high. Heat stroke occurs when the body is unable to regulate its temperature. The body’s temperature rises rapidly, the sweating mechanism fails, and the body is unable to cool down. “People just don’t understand the risks of extreme heat,” says Michael McGeehin, PhD, MSPH, director of the division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, at the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health. “They aren’t aware how quickly they can get into trouble.” And while heat-related illness can be a problem for anyone irrespective of any discrimination, people who have certain medical conditions or who are on certain medications to ...

Communication is the process of sharing information, opinion and feeling between people through speaking, writing or body languages. Effective communication prolongs the concept that transmitted content is clearly and successfully delivered, received and understood by someone in the way it was intended. In a healthcare setting, effective communication between patients and healthcare professional is very important to provide great patient care and improve patient satisfaction. It encompasses the ability of healthcare professional to collect information in order to facilitate accurate diagnosis, appropriately counseling, therapeutic instructions, and establish caring relationships with patients. Many medical professionals tend to overestimate their ability in communication which leads to patient dissatisfaction and complaints. Ineffective communication can lead to improper diagnosis and delayed or improper medical treatment. ​Here are some tips for Effective Communication in He...

Thanks to Medical research and Pharmaceutical companies, for their innovations, contributions to people's improved health and prolonged life. Now a days medicines can be found everywhere, as they cure, slow, prevent disease, aiding us to lead healthier and happier lives. How ever, A drug may be helpful or harmful, there are also many of harmful drugs that people consume to help them feel good. Many people are enticed by the excitement that drugs seem to offer. Administering drugs for medicinal purposes is nothing new, if we can see from the drug literature which is dispensed with the drug, there is a list of possible side effects from drugs to the consumer could feel. You may be panicked of the listed side effects and at the same time, you may be discouraged from taking the complete medicine course as required and directed by your doctor. However, there are medicines those may not produce a many side effects while there can be others that may produce very perceptible side effec...

Florence Nightingale – Her Nursing History: Florence Nightingale was the legend, who had kick started the nursing profession, the legend who devoted her life caring for the people those were sick, diseased or wounded. One of her greatest achievement was to raise nursing as profession to the level of a respectable profession for women. She was born in Italy on 12 May 1820, she was named Florence after the city where she was born of her parents, William Edward and Frances Nightingale, she had an elder sister Parthenope. Childhood Days:  Florence and her sister Parthenope were educated at home by their father, who got educated at the Cambridge University. Florence was an academic child, while Parthenope excelled at painting and needlework.  Florence grew up to be a lively and attractive young woman , admired in the family’s social circle and she was expected to make a good marriage, but Florence had other concerns, that bothered the family. Click here to Continue Reading For...

Bio pharma professionals anxious about opportunities and challenges, not “skills needed”. One of the main hiring mistakes professionals often do–“specify a long list of requirements”. Yes, it can be take in to consideration that a professional, group of professionals meet together and fastidiously bring forth the suitable sentences to depict the ideal background. Even so, it doesn’t sell in market and professionals may indispose themselves based on attainment given over that in actual fact isn’t requiring to excelling in the role. Pick-up  performance profiles not look the key words or job descriptions A performance professional, when screened properly, gives exactly what the professional doing in the present position. For instance : What role would you be more attracted to? (a) Communicate with the regulatory authorities, (b) Have direct contact with the review staff to discuss a newer pathway forward a New Molecule Entity (NME) or New Chemical Entity (NCE) that is unique ...

One of the foremost means of staying healthy much depends upon the kind of food we eat. Staying healthy is possible by living close to nature and consuming natural foods, many of the foods that we consume today are a major cause for the life style diseases that haunt people across the world. There are still many readily available natural foods that can help you stay healthy and live disease free. Incorporating these  foods will help you lead a healthy life , foods that are scientifically proven by research and years of study. Lets learn and know these foods closely in detail and understand, how good and healthy they are for the body. ​ Berries:  All berries are low in sugar and high in fiber. Research has scientifically proven these notion, Blueberries have been shown to increase memory in lab studies, also raspberries and strawberries are loaded with Ellagic acid, a powerful antioxidant that seems to have some anti-cancer properties, according to the American Cancer Socie...

The nderlying cause of 70 per cent of suicides is depression. For every suicide, around ten more attempted suicides would have occurred. M. Chandrasekharan Nair, city-based psychiatrist, speaking to The Hindu, said that a government directive on treating a patient jointly by a general physician and a psychiatrist for every attempted suicide case could perhaps help in detecting depression and bringing down cases of suicides. The stigma of getting treated by a psychiatrist continues to be the hurdle in people reaching out for support and care for better mental health, said Dr. Nair. Depression is a worldwide phenomenon and about 30 per cent of patients reaching for primary care and specialty care have this problem, he said. However, the patients never realise it nor are the treating physicians oriented towards understanding depression in patients. Click here to Continue Reading For more updates visit  HarNeedi.com

If you cannot live without the social media for even a minute, check out if you're suffering from FOMO - Fear of Missing Out. Health experts say the constant urge to be in touch with friends and happenings via smartphones has left many youths suffering from this new breed of disorder. "Absence of social media can lead to FOMO. One tends to develop uneasiness if staying away from social media is for too long," city-based clinical psychologist Ripen Sippy told IANS. According to Ashima Srivastava, consultant, clinical psychologist at Max Superspeciality Hospital, FOMO is a form of social anxiety. "It is more of a form of social anxiety than a phobia. FOMO is a phenomenon where one feels pressurised to share everything on social media to show how much fun one is having," Srivastava told IANS. According to psychologists, FOMO creates a strange fear of remaining isolated from the crowd. "In FOMO, one develops the fear of missing out updates and impor...

One woman in every four who fractures a hip never comes out of hospital -she dies there. This is a statistic provided by the UK-based National Osteoporosis Society. Worse still, the organisation's report reveals that one in five women has to suffer three fractures before the diagnosis of their brittle bones -not surprising, given that, after hitting menopause, a woman can lose a whopping one-third of her bone in three years. The latest report from the National Osteoporosis Society emphasises the unnecessary suffering that women are experiencing. It makes painful reading. In a poll of 1,551 people across Britain, including 972 women aged 50-70 who had broken bones, the charity found GPs and hospital staff often fail to follow up those at risk. In total, one in eight of those who had more than three broken bones said that they had never discussed osteoporosis with the doctors treating their fractures. About 2.3 million women over the age of 50 have osteoporosis, which the poll ...

Do you know that what you eat at 7pm may just impact your dinner habits and in turn your health?  Everybody enjoys a good snack in the evening. But not all snacks are healthy. Most snacks that we eat during the evening are usually unhealthy as they are mostly deep-fried food items. Not only are they unhealthy but at most time they also kill the appetite for dinner.  A new pan-India study of snacking by research agency AC Nielsen for Knorr Soups reveals that the highest intake of unhealthy foods takes place in the pre-dinner period. The 4 pm to 7 pm slot is what you need to watch out for. The study surveyed 1,000 respondents from Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata. It covered homemakers, working women (mothers) in the age group of 26-40, belonging to middle and upper income households.   With dinner time shifting from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm, a wide variety of unhealthy snacks such as samosa, pakodas, noodles, burger and chaat are consumed in the evening wh...

Every day as I leave from work, I see men, old and young alike, making a beeline for the local paan (betel leaf) vendor. Some are busy chewing paan while others indulge in a quick "stress-free" smoking session.   The other day I noticed a group of young lads next to the same paan shop. They all must have been in their early teens. One of them bought a packet of cigarettes and started blowing smoke rings as the others watched in amazement. He then offered it to a friend who at first declined but finally accepted it after much persuasion by the group. He looked like a first timer. This boy took the first puff, coughed, gave it back, took it back and puffed again.  And there it was. Another youth falling for the bloody stick.  Why is it hard to say NO to another puff?  The answer is nicotine, an addictive substance in tobacco, which is as addictive as heroin or cocaine.   What's in a smoke you wonder, especially if you are a young reader or a new smok...