Schizophrenia: Needs Treatment, Not Despise

By: Prof.(Dr.) M Aleem Siddiqui, MD, DPM, Direct Council Member Indian Psychiatric  Society & Sr. Associate Editor-ICN Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. People with schizophrenia may seem like they have lost touch with reality. Although schizophrenia is not as common as other mental disorders, the symptoms can be very disabling.Have you ever wondered how it would be like if you strongly believed that: 1. Your colleague was conspiring against you and he has put on cameras in the office…

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Do Not Lose The Rope Of The Hope: Part 3

By: Mohammad Salim Khan, Sub Editor-ICN SAHASWAN/BUDAUN: Control your sugar level with natural herbs. Now a days diabetes is such disease which is spreading by leaps and bounds(rapidly) not only in India but also abroad. Unbalanced diet,without schedule diet, and comfortable life style without physical labour invite many diseases.Fox nuts (Tal-Makhana)–It is found that Tal Makhana is also very effective to control our sugar level.The process to take it, is that get ten Tal Makhana a small heat on griddle(Tawa) and take it daily in your breakfast.It will too maintain the sugar…

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Do Not Lose The Rope Of The Hope: Part 2

By: Mohammad Salim Khan, Sub Editor-ICN SAHASWAN/BUDAUN: As we all know that the life is mortal and we have to migrate from this mortal world. (Kullu nafsin zayqatul maut )every soul has to be tasted the flavour of death.Either we fall sick or not,demise will swallow everyone,either healthy or unhealthy,rich or poor,old or young nobody can escape himself to be a loaf of the death.Except the creator of this whole universe nobody would survive himself,(ALLAH-hu-Baqi min kulli Fani). Every body has to be destroyed except Almighty ALLAH or we call HIM ISHWAR…

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Do Not Lose The Rope Of The Hope: Part 1

By: Mohammad Salim Khan, Sub Editor-ICN Disappointment is just like a curse so give it up. SAHASWAN/BUDAUN: Control your sugar level with natural herbs. Now a days diabetes is such disease which is spreading by leaps and bounds(rapidly) not only in India but also abroad.Unbalanced diet,without schedule diet, and comfortable life style without physical labour invite many diseases. Diabetes is one of them.It has been the nature of ourselves to go to the bed late at night and to rise late after sunrise.We don’t drink water according to its proper schedule. early…

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Organ Donation is the Need of the Time and the Role of Media in Disseminating this Information

By: Dr. Mohammad Aleem, Editor, ICN Group  NEW DELHI: It was my first meeting with those people face-to-face who have dedicated themselves for a unique cause. They are the soldiers who are committed to making India strong, healthy and physically self-reliant. India’s one billion and a quarter million populations are both a boon and a bane. On the one hand, its strong population density makes it an enviable workforce in the world, but there are millions and millions who are living in deplorable conditions. Economically, we could not become so…

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Pollution Affecting Fertility

By: Dr. Warija Seth, M.D. (Obstetrics & Gynaecology)/ Sr. Associate Editor-ICN LUCKNOW: Human evolution is the result of valuable qualities like empathy, sympathy, compassion and wit. Man changed his nature from nomad to stationary living. During the course of evolution man developed interdependent communities. They indulged in trade, excessive accumulation of wealth. Indulgence in pleasure and selfish behaviour has risen the rivalry among themselves. If we examine the swarmed and cramped cities of today, the nimble human is lost somewhere and a scowl, shrugged man looking for sudden thrust to raise oneself and…

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Chikungunya: A Common Occurrence In Monsoon

By: Dr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Asstt. Editor-ICN LUCKNOW: Chikungunya is a  viral infection caused by the bite of an infected female mosquito belonging to the Aedes aegypti. The word Chikungunya derived from a word in the Kimakonde language which means “ to become contorted or that which bends up.”  Chikungunya is not a contagious disease and an infected person cannot spread this infection to another person. The Chikungunya virus gets into a mosquito when it bites a person already infected with it and when the infected mosquito bites another person, the…

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Hepatitis C: A Silent Epidemic

By: Dr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Asstt. Editor-ICN Hepatitis C has been called a silent epidemic because most people with Hepatitis C do not know they are infected. LUCKNOW: Hepatitis is a general term used to describe inflammation of the liver. It is characterized by the presence of inflammatory cells in the liver tissue. Hepatitis can be caused due to various factors such as excessive alcohol consumption, autoimmune diseases, accumulation of fat in the liver causing fatty liver disease and microorganisms, including viruses. There are 5 different types of viruses that cause Hepatitis-…

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Diabetes: Stress Free Life And Sleep Well

By: Dr. Nosheen Ali, Bureau Chief-ICN Madhya Pradesh BHOPAL: Diabetes mellitus is known as “SIPHONING OFF SWEET WATER. It means excess sugar is found in blood as well as urine. D-Decrease Anabolism cause increase thirst (polydipsia) I-insulin secretion reduced, and increases Glucose Production A-Always Hungry, thirsty. B-Blurry Vision (Blood sugar (Glucose) high) E- Eating disorder first sign. T-Tingling and Numbness in Hands & Feet’s E-Enuresis Nocturnal S-Sudden weight Loss In the case of diabetes, there are two kinds of complications. The first kind happens quickly and can be dealt with quickly. This kind…

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Lifestyle, Infections Cause 70% Cancer In North East India

By: Debraj Deb  MUMBAI: Around 70 percent of cancer cases in Northeast India, especially Tripura and Mizoram, occur due to lifestyle habits and infections, eminent medical oncologist and Chief of the Head and Neck Surgery Department at Tata Memorial Hospital Dr. Anil K. D’Cruz said. The cancer expert said that among every hundred cases of cancer patients who come to TMH from Tripura every year, around fifty are caused due to tobacco or alcohol. Ten others have cancer due to infections like HPV, HIV or Hepatitis while faulty diet and obesity cause…

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