News and Articles on Ayurveda, Yoga, Kundalini and other Indian way of health and medicines.
Smart Scope CX is intended to tackle one of the persistent challenges in cervical cancer prevention: bringing screening closer to women who may have limited access to specialist hospitals, laboratories or gynaecologists.
India received recognition for sustaining the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus for a decade and for its progress in bringing people with hypertension and diabetes under standardised treatment through primary healthcare.
The liver already possesses sophisticated systems for processing and eliminating substances from the body. No juice, herb or short-term “detox diet” can wash toxins out of a healthy liver. Foods can, however, support overall nutrition, metabolic health and healthy body weight, all of which influence long-term liver health.
The Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences specifically associates osteoarthritis with Sandhigata Vata and describes pain, swelling and restricted movement as common features. Modern medicine similarly defines osteoarthritis as a condition involving progressive changes in joint cartilage and surrounding tissues that can produce pain, stiffness and reduced mobility.
A person who wakes hungry after an early and easily digested dinner may benefit from a substantial morning meal. Someone who ate a heavy dinner late at night and wakes with no appetite may not benefit from forcing down another heavy meal simply because the clock says it is breakfast time.
Bengaluru-based InnAccel Technologies has built its medical-device strategy around this gap. Rather than taking equipment created for highly equipped Western hospitals and simply reducing its price, the company identifies clinical problems inside Indian hospitals and develops devices specifically around the conditions in which doctors and nurses actually work.
Luxid’s approach allows hospitals to create customised three-dimensional visual modules for individual procedures. Patients wearing the glasses can view anatomical structures and different stages of a planned treatment from multiple perspectives, giving them a more visual understanding of what will happen during surgery.
Modern nutrition arrives at a similar broad principle from a different direction. The eyes require adequate vitamin A, carotenoids such as lutein and zeaxanthin, antioxidants and an overall diet that helps maintain vascular and metabolic health. The National Eye Institute recommends a balanced diet rich in dark leafy vegetables and other nutrient-dense foods as one part of protecting long-term vision.
From its research base in Bengaluru, Bugworks Research is attempting something considerably harder than producing another version of an existing antibiotic. The company is developing an entirely new class of broad-spectrum antibacterial compounds designed to attack drug-resistant bacteria through a different mechanism.
Bengaluru-based Achira Labs is developing an Indian alternative built around microfluidics: shrinking several laboratory processes into small disposable cartridges that can operate with compact analysers close to the patient.
