Public Health

While Europeans trade blame about the E. coli contamination that has killed 14 people and made hundreds sick, one factoid is left out of most news stories - you're far more likely to get E. coli from food in organic supermarkets, where European governments are now sending inspectors to try and contain the risk. Anti-science progressives have waged a decade-long war on genetically-modified food but, to-date, not so much as a single stomach ache has been caused by any modified vegetables, with 400 million people having eaten GMOs, while persistent outbreaks in E. coli correspond to increases in…

I suppose the recent Egypt-centric focus on food consumption had to end eventually.  The 'food pyramid' you have seen for decades, craftily negotiated by food lobbyists, is being replaced by...a pie.   First Lady Michelle Obama is on a war against obesity and she will fight over food. Pres. Obama warned us, "You do not want to be between Michelle and a tamale" and the new dietary guideline shape is the latest weapon. Certainly it makes sense, that not-to-scale pyramid had some bizarre range of servings and made little sense and it got worse over time.    Look at this…

People want to remain happy feel good all the time. Some blogs even point out to remain happy even in adverse circumstances. I wish to share my personal experience. The moment I write a blog on " there is limited supply of water " or something about destruction of vegetation and try to paint a real pictures of what might be outcome of rampant destruction of vegetation or try to remind people that human beings are just one part of plant and animals living on this earth my "blog clicks" start going down as probably no one wants to read or imagine what is going to come in next 50 years . People…

Ethnobotany is defined as the study of the relationship between people and plants and most commonly refers to the study of indigenous uses of plants. In other words, it is the marriage between cultural anthropology and botany, a study that investigates the roles of plants as medicine, nurishment, natural resources or gateways to the gods. Usually it is considered a relatively young field of study. Officially it has only been recognized as an academic discipline for about a hundred years. However, this view is deceptive. In fact, the investigation of plants and their uses is one of the most…

The vaccine-injury crowd  is inoculated against reason, evidence, and appeals to civic duty and compassion for the suffering of millions. Those of us who've spent time in the trenches with them know it all too well. You can acknowledge that vaccine injuries do occur. You can commiserate on how tragic those are, how we need to always continue to do more, to make vaccines as safe as possible, but it falls on deaf ears. As long as you follow those acknowledgements with the statement that the accumulated body of replicated science shows no connection between vaccines and autism, vaccines and…

Ayurveda consist of two words ‘Ayur’ and ‘Veda’. It is a Sanskrit term and it literally means the science of life (Sharma, 1979). The scope of Ayurveda is vast. It not only deals with the prevention of disease and promotion of health and longevity but it also cures the disease. It also deals with rejuvenation. It can also be called the science of living and it is upveda of Atharva veda. It treats an individual as a whole and not only the symptoms or the affected parts, unlike modern medicines. India due to its unique variety of geographical and climatic factors had a rich and varied flora of…

Cassia fistula belonging to Leguminosae family, is widely used for its medicinal properties, its main property being that of a mild laxative suitable for children and pregnant women. It is also a purgative due to the wax aloin and a tonic (Satyavati and Sharma, 1989) and has been reported to treat many other intestinal disorders like healing ulcers (Biswas et al., 1973; Kirtikar and Basu, 1975). The plant has a high therapeutic value and it exerts an antipyretic and analgesic effect (Patel et al., 1965). Besides, it has been found to exhibit antinflammatory and hypoglycaemic activity (Datta…

Believers will say yes and non believers will say its all "bakwas" or junk idea. Now how to find out the truth ? Do plants provide medicine ? Has man learned enough about human body physiology ? Does allopathic medicine pays enough attention on "Human mind and body " . Can peace with himself cure a person. How many modern day drugs are derived from plant sources ? Why there is search for herbal medicines, herbal creams, herbal cosmetics ? Can herbal medicines cure kidney troubles ? heart troubles ? stomach troubles ? AIDS ? Influenza ?. Let us study and findout the right answers .

ABSTRACTA simple and accurate RP-HPLC method has been developed for the simultaneous estimation of Hydrochlorothiazide, Amlodipine besylate and Valsartan by using C18 column 150 x 4.6 mm,5μm with a simple gradient elution(0-4min, sol-A:80-55; 4-8min- sol-A:55-40; 8-11min- sol-A:40-30; 11-13min- sol-A:30-80 and 13-16min- sol-A:80-80). Mobile phase comprising of sol-A (pH 3.00±0.05 of 0.01M Potassium dihydrogen phosphate) and sol-B (Acetonitrile). Flow rate was 1.00 ml per min and the detection was monitored out by UV detector at 237nm. Theretention times for Hydrochlorothiazide, Amlodipine…

ABSTRACTOBJECTIVE: To develop a single RP-HPLC method for the simultaneous determination of six active ingredients including Metformin Hydrochloride, Pioglitazone, Glimepiride, Gliclazide,Glibenclamide and Glipizide in pharmaceutical products.METHOD: HPLC analysis was carried out by using a C18 (150mm, 4.6mm and 3μ) column with the gradient mobile phasecomposed of Sol-A: phosphate buffer (1.0g of KH2PO4 in to 1000ml of HPLC water, mix and adjusted the pH to 3.0 with diluted H3PO4) and sol-B: acetonitrile with simple gradient program(0-4min, sol-A:65-65; 4-8min- sol-A:65-43; 8-15min- sol-A:43-…