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DrRatnadip wrote:

Dileep wrote:There is no rational explanation, but I have multiple instances for Homoeopathy working.

1. My brother-in-law had virtiligo (white patches on skin). Tried modern medicine for some time. No use. Homoeopathy completely cured it in a few months.

2. My mother started cataract in her eyes. Homoeopathic medicine completely reversed it. She had normal vision for rest of her life, like 20+ years
roni3. When my kids were little, homoeopathy used to work for fever. Sometimes better than acetaminophen.

many of my patients and friends trust homeopathy in chronic diseases.. I personaly dont feel they are more effective than placebo.. i have seen people go to homeopath after I advice them some minor operation only to return with severe form of disease which needs major surgery with its increased complications..

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rsingh wrote:Any body here with liver-transplant experience. I am going through pre-transplant tests. I have diabetes (17 years) and Sarcodoises. Since 12th Dec 2019 I have chronic Anemia and I am given blood on regular basis. Is it dangerous to have transplant in my situation.

UlanBatori wrote:Ayurvedic solutions to virus attacks would be a great thing. There must be SOMETHING that stops these things short of killing the patient?

Dr. Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati, who was known as the God Mother of Cardiology in India, breathed her last yesterday, at the age of 103. The founder of the National Heart Institute and the All India Heart Foundation, Dr. S I Padmavati came to India in 1942 with an MBBS degree from Burma, a British colony, where she was born. On completion of her fellowships at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Medical School in the US, she started her career as a lecturer at Lady Hardinge Medical College and opened north India’s first cardiology clinic in 1954. Then she became an examiner with the Medical Council of India in cardiology. In 1967, she became the director principal of Maulana Azad Medical College and founded the first coronary care unit. She was also an Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Delhi.
She did not rest on her laurels post retirement. She went on to set up the National Heart Institute in Delhi in 1981. At the age of 90, she became a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology in 2007. She was honored with the Padma Bhushan in 1967 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1992. Until late 2015, she had been working 12 hours a day and five days a week at the National Heart Institute. She tested COVID19 positive 11 days ago and succumbed to severe respiratory disorder while being given ventilator support. For her remarkable contributions to the development of cardiology in India, she had received Fellowship of the American College of Cardiology and FMS. Such was her energy level that she used to go for swimming until 2015.
She had once told The Week, “Technology, no doubt, has revolutionized the way we diagnose a problem and treat it, but I feel it has claimed clinical skills of a physician,” she says. “It is unfortunate that now young doctors rely only on technology, which has resulted in an increase in the cost of health care.”

A 57-year-old man with life-threatening heart disease has received a heart from a genetically modified pig, a groundbreaking procedure that offers hope to hundreds of thousands of patients with failing organs.

It is the first successful transplant of a pig’s heart into a human being. The eight-hour operation took place in Baltimore on Friday, and the patient, David Bennett Sr. of Maryland, was doing well on Monday, according to surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
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Amber G. wrote:I am very excited that world class Medical school with a very strong background in Math, Science and Engineering is opening up in India.

In past Engineering schools in India (before IIT's) did not have strong Physics/Math departments. Medical schools have even less math requirements. So this is good. Like IIT's hope this will have world class faculty and students
https://youtu.be/wzHdP1cVqFc

Cow’s milk is frequently included in the human diet, but the relationship between milk intake and type 2 diabetes (T2D) remains controversial. Here, using data from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos, we show that in both sexes, higher milk intake is associated with lower risk of T2D in lactase non-persistent (LNP) individuals (determined by a variant of the lactase LCT gene, single nucleotide polymorphism rs4988235) but not in lactase persistent individuals. We validate this finding in the UK Biobank. Further analyses reveal that among LNP individuals, higher milk intake is associated with alterations in gut microbiota (for example, enriched Bifidobacterium and reduced Prevotella) and circulating metabolites (for example, increased indolepropionate and reduced branched-chain amino acid metabolites). Many of these metabolites are related to the identified milk-associated bacteria and partially mediate the association between milk intake and T2D in LNP individuals. Our study demonstrates a protective association between milk intake and T2D among LNP individuals and a potential involvement of gut microbiota and blood metabolites in this association.