WELLNESS

New Delhi: When eye injury strikes, the time needed to rush patients to proper care becomes crucial.

Now, researchers say there may be a quick way to seal severe eye injuries until they can be treated by doctors.

A new type of temperature-sensitive gel, which can protect a wounded eyeball and then later be removed with cold water, could be vital in saving the vision of people who get injured a long way from the nearest medical facilities; says scientists.

The liquid has been developed with soldiers in mind – because when a soldier sustains a traumatic eye injury on the battlefield, it's a race against time to get them treated before eye damage becomes permanent.

New Delhi: Jaggery, also known as “Gur’ in hindi comes with loads of health benefits along with a very delicious sweet flavor. In India, Jaggery is used as an ingredient in sweet and savoury dishes. Besides, there are many food items made using jaggery instead of sugar to promote health. The health benefits of jaggery are immense and eating a small piece of 'gur' after a meal everyday post meals can do wonders for your health.

Jaggery also becomes an essential food item during winters especially after lunch. Let’s understand the benefits of including jaggery in your diet.

New Delhi: With the country’s highest decision making body on vaccines set to take a call in its next meeting on the introduction of cervical cancer vaccine in the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) there has been already a lot of controversy revolving around the introduction of vaccine in India.

RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has red-flagged any plan to introduce the Human Papilloma Virus vaccine, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Indian Council of Medical Research.

SJM maintained that HPV vaccine could lead to an unmitigated tragedy. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, SJM has claimed that “unethical” trials of the vaccine was allegedly cause of many deaths of tribal children in Andhra Pradesh.

New Delhi: Copper utensils may not be as widely used as they once were, but they are making quite the comeback because of the growing popularity of alternative therapies like Ayurveda, across the world.

For thousands of years, people of India and many other Asian countries have known the benefits of drinking water from Copper Vessels. Ancient Ayurvedic scriptures have stated many health benefits of storing water in copper vessels. Now, the current medical studies are also supporting this ancient Ayurvedic practice.

While Ayurvedic texts advocate the use of copper for water purification, many natural health enthusiasts and publishers claim that copper utensils are healthy, as water from copper cups can fight inflammation, boost brain function, facilitate weight loss, and do lots more.

New Delhi: Keck School of Medicine of USC researchers have identified a human protein that could prevent cancer by restricting a type of herpes virus from replicating.

The scientists examined the human herpes virus 8, otherwise known as Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus. Kaposi sarcoma is a cancer that causes lesions in soft tissue, including skin, the oral cavity, lymph nodes and internal organs.

Shou-Jiang Gao, senior author of the study, has been studying this eighth type of herpes viruses for almost 25 years. The current study, published in Nature Microbiology on Nov. 6, is the first to map healthy cells and those infected by a large DNA virus.