Chennai: Capsaicin, the compound responsible for giving chilli its heat, could one day be turned into a therapeutic Cancer treatment, according to a new study. The researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras were able to detect how the

Researchers from Nigeria’s National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD) have concluded after examining the evidence, that several herbs, and one particular combination of herbal extracts, provides evidence of being able to provide a potential treatment for sickle cell anemia.

Last year, while sitting through a medical board review course for integrative medicine, an inexplicable feeling of fatigue washed over me. I had been sleeping well, yet still continuing to wake up exhausted. It was no small coincidence that the topic of discussion was the scientific evidence behind the integrative medicine approach to treating thyroid disease.

What is herbal medicine?

Herbs have played a major part in medicine for thousands of years. Today Herbal Medicine comes under CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) with the rest of the diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not generally considered part of conventional medicine.

KARACHI: In the wake of below average rainfall in Thar in recent years, the Sindh government has planned a series of water, food and livestock projects under a strategy to end water shortfall in the drought-hit desert district, it emerged on Wednesday.

 Delivering clear solutions

According to the World Health Organisation, around 768 million people in the world – about one in ten people – live without access to safe, clean water. A further 2.4 billion, one third of the world’s population, do not have adequate sanitation.

Prescription Death
You may have thought cancer or heart disease takes the lives of more Americans than any other illness or event. But conventional medicine is actually the leading cause of death today!