Public Health

Human body has 10 raise to the power 13 cells and it has 10 raise to the power 14 microbes in it if I have heard the lecture correctly delivered in a seminar abroad. Microbes have different interpersonal relations when alone . They behave differently if they are in company of human beings or with different microbes. Microbe human interaction in fat people and thin people is different . In fatty healthy people and in sick thin people the microbe human interaction may be different. Natural products have an effect on microbes and vice versa. Natural products might influence si RNA levels.…

I had a chance to pass on the road in front of hospital in West recently. I never had a chance to enter hospital from inside there. I remembered the poem of Ernest Hemmingway “East is East and West is West and twin shall never meet”. Its not to hurt anybodies true feelings its about way of life in east and west and the traditions will always be different because of way of life is different. Things can become easier for doctors if less relatives will visit the hospital lawns or corridors enquiring about health of relatives. People forget doctors ( with due respect to doctors all over the…

A 19th century nursery rhyme called "What Are Little Boys Made Of?" and generally attributed to Robert Southey goes "What are little boys made of?  What are little boys made of? Snips and snails and puppy-dogs' tails, that's what little boys are made of.What are little girls made of? What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and everything nice,that's what little girls are made of."But these days in Australia both genders, even only four weeks old, are made of sugar.  And salt and high-fat foods, despite health authorities recommending exclusive breastfeeding to six months of…

Do social networks which features many distant connections, or "long ties," produce large-scale changes most quickly, as social media lore claims?    No, says a new study by Damon Centola,  assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.  Instead, individuals are more likely to acquire new health practices while living in networks with dense clusters of connections — that is, when in close contact with people they already know well.  Dense clusters of connections are considered redundant by researchers when it comes to spreading information and those…

If you ask a non doctor what are the remedies of hypertension and blood pressure its like asking solutions from a student of maths or physics. However great contributions have been made from people who have changed their field of study from one to another. As neither I am doctor nor I have changed the field of study but I am looking for answer for both. Dont accept any of the following unless you take advice from your doctor. However I am presenting general observations. High sodium and sodium ion balance in body is crucial phenomenon. Body pH is maintained constant and sodium plays important…

Sodium promotes life activities and its low levels cause loss of memory in humans . In C4 plants its needed for metabolism also. How does sodium regulate in positive and negative manner. Can it replace Calcium I dont know may be you can tell

Cell membrane composed of lipids is impermeable to glucose which is a polar compound. Transport of glucose across the cell membrane requires a carrier protein located in cell membrane. In plant system it is triose phosphate which is transported across the chloroplast . Availability or lack of Pi determines the transport of metabolites across chloroplast besides other factors. Cell membrane also has Na anti-porters. ATPase have some important role to play in it. Recently I came across a review in nature ( Chao and Henry (2010: Nature review Drug discovery Nature.com/nrd/collections/…

If only you could visit the new Barcelona airport and see the shops you will hardly notice any signs of recession. I was much impressed by the designs of ladies purses displayed in window which had some freshness and mixture of clours.

Late Professor B. Tiagi was a great botanist who taught almost all the people or now teachers  ( or now retired teachers ) who worked all over Rajasthan in the period hailing from 1960s to 1990s or even later on. He was very regular to the Department and always working with simple tools. He was my source of inspiration that time. He had a plant in his backyard which was famous for cure of asthama. Tylophora indica . It grew like a climber. People visited his house and he fondly gave some leaves of this plant  The leaves are dried and grounded and taken a bit in some very very small…

This plant Atropa bella-donna yields famous drug atropine used to dilate the pupil of the eyes and has medicinal properties. This plant is highly valued for its medicinal properties.