Integrative body mind training

Source: Leszek Czerwonka/Shutterstock In October 2018, the BBC broadcast a fascinating documentary which followed the progress of an experiment with placebo treatment. Under the supervision of researchers from the University of Oxford, 117 people who suffered from chronic severe back pain were asked to take part in a trial for a powerful new pain killer. They were told that some members of the group would be given a placebo. However, in reality they all received a placebo — pills containing ground-up rice powder, to be precise. There was no powerful new painkiller. All 117 participants took the rice powder tablets daily for a month and almost half reported a medically significant improvement in their condition. Most of them had tried a variety of painkillers before, without much success, but the rice powder tablets were remarkably beneficial. A 71-year-old man was confined to a wheelchair because of his pain, and took morphine regularly. But after a month of the placebo … [Read more...] about When the Mind Heals the Body

Home Health Disorders cure Disorders Cure oi-Staff By Padmapreetham Mahalingam | Updated: Friday, May 15, 2015, 10:11 [IST] Women suffering from Polycystic Ovarian Disease (PCOD) have a multitude of symptoms. It is quite a common hormonal disorder in women which is caused by small cysts growing on the ovaries. Some of the symptoms associated with PCOD include infertility, infrequent periods, insulin resistance, acanthosis nigricans, obesity, insulin resistance syndrome, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. It doesn’t mean that you have to get depressed but having a healthy lifestyle can help you to manage with PCOD. Nutrition Chart For PCOS In Women A healthier lifestyle is to start with low calorie diet, physical activity and regularly maintaining of healthy weight. If you don't have any health issues, then regular exercise can help you with the weight management and it also improves menstrual cycles. Physical activity … [Read more...] about 12 Fitness Tips For PCOD In Women

Home Health Wellness Wellness oi-Amritha K By Amritha K on December 1, 2020 Every year, 1 December marks the commemoration of the united fight against HIV and AIDS. World AIDS Day has been raising awareness of the epidemic that kills at least 1 million people every year, since 1988. The idea behind the international observance is to expunge the outmoded stigma and to show solidarity to the HIV affected. AIDS and HIV infections are one of the biggest problems of the current world, despite the establishment of enhanced and upgraded preventive measures. The theme of World AIDS Day 2020 is Global Solidarity, Shared Responsibility. The global HIV epidemic may be accelerating during the Covid-19 pandemic, as there has been a breakdown in essential HIV services due to the pandemic, making it difficult for health workers to deliver continuous, high-quality HIV services. On this World AIDS Day, WHO is calling on global … [Read more...] about World AIDS Day 2020: Tips For Healthy Living With HIV

As a kid, I loved dot-to-dot puzzles. Briefly. Until sense kicked in and I realized you could just see the picture by looking at the dots (yay, another donkey). But, for a brief while, joining dots with pencil lines and seeing the picture emerge was deeply satisfying to my tiny mind. In the sort of metaphorical leap beloved of over-thinking biographers, I’m going to claim that this love of dot-to-dot puzzles led me inexorably to a life as a neuroscientist . For you see the human brain is the surely the most complex dot-to-dot puzzle ever conceived. We know there are about 87 billion neurons in one human brain, but we do not how each of them is wired to the others. Indeed, we don’t even know how one of them is wired to all the others. And sadly evolution did not helpfully label each neuron with a number. The scale of the puzzle is mind-blowing: 87 billion dots, and about a trillion lines to draw between them. By knowing the wiring, we may know all the routes by which information … [Read more...] about Mindlessly Mapping the Brain

Source: 8777334/Pixabay Can dogs combined with machine learning help detect human prostate cancer? Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being applied as a tool to assist in creating novel diagnostics and treatments in life sciences, medicine, and health care. A new peer-reviewed study published in PLOS One demonstrates the feasibility of a non-invasive, early-detection diagnostic method for human prostate cancer using a combination of dogs’ sense of smell and AI machine learning. “Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men in the developed world,” wrote the international research team led by Claire Guest from Medical Detection Dogs (MDD) in the United Kingdom, along with American researchers from John Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital, and other institutions. Prostate cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed types of … [Read more...] about New Study Shows How Dogs and AI Detect Prostate Cancer