The health of a person depends upon various factors other than his genetic predisposition. The energy field of the place one lives in also has an effect upon him. His karma and efforts also play an important role. According to astrology, the type of illness a person is prone to suffer from can be determined. Also the period of illness (onset and duration) can be predicted. Astrology can give precaution, suggest prevention and if there is any disease, it can also help find ways to treatment. In some complicated or difficult to diagnose cases, even doctors or medical practitioners do seek Astrological guidance.
As per Vedic or Indian Astrology, there are twelve houses in a horoscope along 360 degrees. Each house equals 30 degrees. The twelve houses represent different body parts. Besides, there are nine planets, which also have their influence on various organs of the body. The placement of planets, their strength and mutual aspects can affect health in different ways.
Astrology helps analyzing situations that cause imbalance in the state of mind that can affect health. Balancing the mind is a very basic essential requirement in treating diseases. Astrology can help through various healing methods to attain balance and good health; such as gem stone, mantras or worships (poojas in hindi)
Astrological advice should however never do away with proper medical care or your physician’s prescription.

Case Studies:
Birth and death are not in our hands. Astrology can help leading a smooth life, by telling us the weak areas in our mind and body and remedies for the same. Astrology can certainly save us from a lot of confusion and anxiety.
Case 1-
Through astrological analysis, a gentleman was advised that he could have heart problem. Though he had no symptoms but when he went for investigations, three major blockages were detected in the cardiac arteries! Getting treated at the right time, this turned out a life saving astrological advice for him.
Case 2-
A gentleman had a lot of symptoms indicating heart problem. He was extremely distressed by them. He could not find any clear diagnosis as all the reports were normal. When his suffering continued with no relief or proper diagnosis, he consulted Astrology.
Based upon astrology, it was indicated that he has stomach related problems instead. Further medical tests confirmed it, and all his ‘heart symptoms’ were found to be a reflex arising from the stomach problems. Finally he got the right treatment.

Gynaecologists Will Slog Holiday Morning Delivering Babies

Surat/Ahmedabad/Vadodara/ Rajkot: It will be a hectic Sunday in Gujarat alright. While major cities will go to vote for the municipal corporations, gynaecologists will slog the holiday morning delivering babies having the numerical combination of five 10s with a number of parents booking for planned deliveries on 10. 10. 2010 at 10 am and 10 minutes!     In Surat, there is a gynaecologist-paediatrician couple who have planned birth of their own child at this seemingly magical combination! “A caesarean was required for delivery and the date was between October 8-10. Considering importance of the numerical wonder of 10 we chose the morning 10 am time,” says Dr Nihal Patel, paediatrician whose gynaecologist wife Dr Shweta will be operated upon for delivery on Sunday at 10 am.     Many are choosing the time and day for its astrological importance. “It’s first child in the family and we want to make the event memorable, so we chose 10 am time on Sunday. The mahurat is very good, it is Navratri and numerologically it is also so good,” says Renuka Tailor, mother of Mona, resident of Gotalawadi. Mona will deliver twins on Sunday. Doctors say they are limiting these requests as it is not physically possible to deliver many babies at the same time! “I have conceded request of just one couple," says gynaecologist Dr Manish Banker of Pulse Hospital in Ahmedabad.     In Vadodara, Dr Raship Patel of Kalpna Uma Nursing Home is having a tough time declining growing requests. “We have registered five couples, who needed caesarean,” says Dr Patel.     In Rajkot, too, Wockhardt Hospital officials say there are increasing number of requests from couples.

Ideally every unmarried person ( Male & Female )  and every married couple prior to the plan of pregnancy should ensure screening test for Thalasemia , once in life time test to differentiate iron defeciency anemia or genetic origin anemia.

This test  definitely helps so that our next generation ( Children ) should not suffer from Blood transfusion dependent disorders. 

A hernia develops if part of an internal body organ (usually your intestine) protrudes through a tear or through a weak point in the thin wall of muscle holding your abdominal organs in place.

There are several different types of hernia, depending where it occurs:

Inguinal Hernia -- which appears as a bulge in the groin or scrotum is more common in men than women;

Hiatal Hernia -- a condition in which a portion of the stomach protrudes upward into the chest, through an opening in the diaphragm;

Femoral Hernia -- which appears as a bulge in the upper thigh. This type of hernia is more common in women;

incisional hernia -- can occur through a scar, particularly if the incision has not been adequately sutured following abdominal surgery;

umbilical hernia -- which appears as a bulge around the navel and occurs if the muscle around the navel does not close completely after birth.

What causes hernia?

Hernias can occur in any adult. Although it is often said to result from heavy lifting and straining, there is no obvious single cause of hernia.

Infants and young children can also develop hernias. This happens if the lining around the infant's abdominal organs fails to close properly before birth. This occurs in about 5% of children with boys more likely than girls to develop hernias. In some children it is not readily detectable as they may not develop any symptoms until they are adults.

Signs and symptoms of hernia

Hernia is detectable as:

hiatal hernia by itself rarely causes symptoms -- pain and discomfort are usually due to the reflux of gastric acid or bile. Reflux happens more easily in the presence of hiatal hernia, though a hiatal hernia is not the only cause of reflux;

discomfort or pain in the groin, particularly if this is aggravated by lifting or bending;

a tender lump in the groin or scrotum which may increase in size when coughing, bending, lifting, or straining;

a non-tender bulge or lump in children. The lump may not be obvious in infants and children, except when the child is crying or coughing.

Hernia Treatment

If you are unsure whether you have a hernia you should visit your doctor if:

you have groin pain or a swelling or a bulge in your groin;

your child has an umbilical hernia which has failed to heal on its own by the time your child is about five years old.

You should call your doctor right away if:

you have a hernia and you cannot push the contents of your hernia back into your abdomen using gentle pressure;

you have a hernia and you develop nausea, vomiting, or a fever. This could mean that your hernia has become strangulated and has developed an infection;

your hernia becomes red, purple, dark, or discolored.

Almost all hernias require surgery, preferably before complications occur, to reposition the protruding loop of intestine and secure the weakened muscles in the abdomen.

Surgery for this is usually performed as an outpatient procedure using local or general anesthesia. Through an incision, the piece of bowel forming the hernia is placed back into the abdominal cavity. Then the muscle wall of the abdomen is stitched closed. A piece of plastic mesh is often used to reinforce the defective section of the abdominal wall. Visit http://www.thecradlebangalore.com

Source: US National Library of Medicine

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positive attitude always helps to succeed in life. no matter where you are, what you do, if you have a positive attitude, you will always excel in your life. This was known to all the great achievers of the past centuries and thus we still remember them. all we have to do is to think in a positive way. all those who do not dream, start dreaming. bream of your love, passion, carrier, home and all that things that excite you, all that you want to do and you will surely get it. remember, no negativity, because it hampers your approach towards getting what you want. it is reducing your plus signs and creating a dark cloud around you. and then it becomes more difficult to come out of it.

all those who are always tensed or always afraid of past or future should stop thinking about them. just be happy. tell yourself that everything is going to be great with you. whatever your past was will never come back and you can surely enlighten your future by having a positive attitude today.

try it once and you will see the difference!!

Dear Friends,

I am writing this letter on behalf of my elder brother. He is presently living in a village and earning his livelihood by Farming, From last few month he was not well he was advised by a doctor to take proper bed rest.and Because of this his earning fully stop.and from last few days he rapidly fell sick and he was been  admitted in the Shyama Prasad mukhrjee civil hospital in Lucknow,
His condition was so serious that the civil hospital doctors referred him to the "medical college" for further treatment because his condition was not in a good state.


In Medical College he had  primary check up......and the report were shocking my elder brother is suffering from chronic blood cancer.
This was really a shocked to everyone because we all were aware by the pain of My brother ,Mentally and physically we all are disturbed,
Financially i am are very helpless for my brother.And we all know that he is having financilly crises.Right now he is so weak that he cannot even provide one time meal to his four tittle kids and his wife.And  he don,t have any alternate resourse of income no more resources of income.
He is the only  person from whom livehood earning is done.

My Brother is fully Shattered when he hear,s about his Medical Reports.

Now his further medical test are very expensive,which cannot be affordable by my Brother.
Doctors are saying that things can be done under control,if  my brother goes to the sevral medical test.
which has been suggested by the doctors.


So  i beg  to the organization.....please help my brother to fight from  this disease,
Its a request to all the organization please consider this letter
Please consider my request. And please help my brother and his family out.

Breaching The Blood/Brain Barrier To Improve Treatment For Neurodegenerative Diseases


Medical News Today - The University of South Florida's Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair has been granted a patent for a cell transplantation procedure combining human umbilical cord blood (HUCB) cells and a sugar-alcohol compound called "mannitol" that may make a big difference in treating life-threatening neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and stroke, among others.
The technology administers the neuroprotective effect of umbilical cord blood cells along with mannitol to permeabilize the blood-brain barrier, allowing for the increased entry of therapeutic growth factors. Saneron CCEL Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology R&D USF spin-out company located at the Tampa Bay Technology Incubator, has licensed the technology.
"Approximately 750,000 strokes occur every year in the United States, and nearly one third of them are fatal," said Saneron's President and COO, Nicole Kuzmin-Nichols, MBA. "Given the devastating effects of stroke, it is imperative that we develop new therapies to minimize damage to the brain as well as repair the damage. We are excited about this new technology and its potential to help us develop a variety of new products and therapies to do just that."
While transplanted HUCB cells may benefit several neurological diseases, getting them past the blood-brain-barrier has presented a problem. The blood-brain barrier separates circulating blood and cerebral spinal fluid in the central nervous system. The newly patented technology is based on mannitol acting as a blood-brain barrier permeabilizer to help get the therapeutic substances secreted by HUCB cells past the blood-brain barrier and into the central nervous system. Mannitol, which temporarily shrinks the tight cells that make up the barrier, allows HUCB cells, via their secreted factors, to reach the site of injury or disease.
"Human umbilical cord blood contains a high percentage of stem cells that when intravenously administered can survive and differentiate into neurons in the damaged brain. Equally appealing is their ability to secrete beneficial molecules that potentially promote behavioral recovery," said Dr. Cesar Borlongan, co-inventor and a USF neuroscientist and professor and consultant for Saneron. "Because the blood-brain barrier regulates the entry of many blood-borne substances into the brain, it may exclude potentially therapeutic substances."
"The use of stem cell therapy as a treatment for neurodegenerative disorders shows exciting promise, though several hurdles must be overcome and getting the cells correctly positioned is one of those," said Nicole Kuzmin-Nichols. "This technology provides the means to deliver the HUCB cells directly to the damaged brain to maximize their effect."

Parkinson’s Patients More Likely to Stick With Certain ‘Add-on’ Drugs

Laura Kennedy

Health Behavior News Service - Of the three main types of oral drugs commonly added to levodopa therapy for patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease, one might be the most effective, according to a new review.

People with Parkinson’s disease often initially experience tremors, stiffness, slowed movement or difficulty with balance and coordination. These symptoms result from the destruction of brain cells that produce dopamine – an important chemical that transmits nerve impulses.
Many people with Parkinson’s start treatment by taking levodopa, which the body converts to dopamine. After a time, however, levodopa alone is not always enough.

The three classes of drugs for add-on treatment are dopamine agonists, which stimulate dopamine receptors in the brain, drugs known as COMT inhibitors and MAOB inhibitors, which slow the breakdown of dopamine in the body.

Of these, dopamine agonists might be most effective, according to a new review.
The irony for patients and doctors alike is that while all of the add-on drugs help improve functional motor skills, they simultaneously might increase numerous other side effects such as dyskinesia, dizziness, sleep disturbances, nausea, constipation and even hallucinations.

Although the risk of side effects increased with all three types of add-on drugs, patients were most likely to continue treatment when they were taking dopamine agonists. This class includes medications such as pramipexole (Mirapex), ropinirole (Requip), cabergoline (Dostinex) and bromocriptine (Parlodel).

“There’s a tendency to think that stronger drugs give more adverse effects, but we didn’t find that with dopamine agonists,” says review co-author Carl E. Clarke, M.D., a neurologist at the University of Birmingham in England. “They seem to be as well tolerated as the other classes, so the results are quite positive in terms of using the agonists ahead of the other two.”

Parkinson’s disease is a chronic, progressive disorder affecting more than 6 million people worldwide, making it the most common degenerative condition of the brain after Alzheimer’s disease. Both illnesses are most common in the elderly, so with an aging U.S. population, their prevalence is likely to increase.

“No treatments have been proven to slow progression of the disease,” said William J. Weiner, M.D., director of the Maryland Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center. “Yet with treatment to alleviate motor symptoms, most patients can function extremely well for six to 10 years.”

Levodopa typically controls symptoms very well for up to five years, but eventually a patient’s symptoms start to reappear each day before the next dose is due – or symptoms might reappear and disappear unpredictably. Patients might also develop dyskinesia, which results in uncontrollable jerking and writhing movements.
Doctors can then add another medication to the levodopa therapy.


“The greater efficacy and reduced likelihood of patient withdrawal with dopamine agonist therapy possibly outweighs the disadvantage of increased side effects,” concludes the review.
This finding matches Weiner’s clinical experience gained from decades of treating people with the disease.
“Most [Parkinson’s] patients prefer to have these dyskinesias and other moderate side effects than to have more disabling motor complications like being unable to walk,” he says. “Hallucinations may be troublesome and frightening initially, but they are typically benign — a patient might think he sees a dog — and people can get used to them.”

The review appears in the current issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates research in all aspects of health care. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing trials on a topic.

This review assessed data from 44 randomized trials involving 8,436 participants. The authors caution, however, that the studies compared each class of drugs against placebo, rather than conducting “head-to-head” comparisons of each class against the others.
This leaves open the possibility that the findings arose not from actual differences in the treatments, but rather from other factors such as differences in the types of people included in the various trials. A large trial featuring direct comparisons of the three drug classes currently is underway in the United Kingdom, Clarke said.
Of the drugs in the COMT inhibitor class, the review suggests that tolcapone (Tasmar) is as effective as the dopamine agonists. However, tolcapone has been linked to a few cases of fatal liver toxicity and can now only be prescribed in the United States with intense monitoring.
“Tolcapone is worth using in patients where [the alternative] is not working well, and we mustn’t discount it,” Clarke said. “This evidence clearly states that."

People with Parkinson's Disease Able to Reclaim Voices


Axcess News - Bob Travis opens his mouth and says "aaaaaaaaah." His voice sounds normal to him. But his voice as heard on a video recording is slightly more than audible.

Travis has Parkinson's disease, and like about 90 percent of those with the condition, he literally has trouble being heard.

So he came to the department of speech, language and hearing science at the University of Colorado at Boulder for speech therapy. In jest, he said his wife needed a hearing aid. In truth, he had noticed his vocal power fading.

A month after the initial therapy session, Travis appeared in a post-treatment video. Again asked to say "aaaaaah," his voice veritably booms, loud and robust. Of his wife, he says, "She no longer needs a hearing aid."

Travis has just finished speech therapy developed by Lorraine Ramig, CU professor of speech, language and hearing science.

Like many clients who undergo the four-week program, Travis is better able to participate in everyday activities, like answering the telephone or joining a dinner conversation.

As many as 1 million people in the United States have Parkinson's, the Parkinson's Disease Foundation estimates. In addition to problems with movement and stiffness, about 90 percent have voice problems, Ramig says. But only a very few receive vocal therapy that has been proved to be effective.

"As a faculty member, it's wonderful, thrilling and all of that to do the science, but what's also exciting is seeing the application of discovery in real patients," Ramig observes.

People with Parkinson's have a diminished sense of how loudly they speak. If they think they are attaining a normal volume, they may be hard to hear. But if they think they are shouting, they are probably speaking in conversational tones.

The treatment, called Lee Silverman Voice Treatment, dates to 1983, when a colleague asked Ramig for help crafting speech therapy for Parkinson's patients. She met the family of Silverman, who was living in Arizona. Their wish: "If we could only hear and understand her."

Ramig and a student from CU-Boulder set out to develop a treatment protocol, but, "When we began, neurologists said speech therapy doesn't work, and it didn't."

Ramig and her collaborator focused on a high-effort vocal-exercise program -- an hour a day in treatment sessions plus homework -- that proved to be effective. Multiple studies since then have confirmed LSVT LOUD, now a registered trademark of LSVT Global Inc., to be effective. Today LSVT LOUD is being delivered by LSVT-certified clinicians in more than 40 countries.

The essence of the treatment is to get patients to use that "loud" voice as their own voice, and to cue them to know that the voice they think is loud is the right voice.

Parkinson's Hope as Scientists Ease Symptoms in Mice

Matthew Moore

Telegraph.co.uk - Scientists have established for the first time how specific "pathways" in the brain control our movements, opening the door for pioneering therapies to improve the motor skills of sufferers.
The discovery could also be used to develop treatments and drugs to improve the day-to-day lives of people with similar disorders including Huntington's disease and Tourette's syndrome, according to academics.
While the research is still at an early stage, the study's results are the latest boost for the 120,000 people in Britain who currently suffer from Parkinson's.
The condition, which is connected to a shortage of dopamine, impairs patients' speech and limits their control over movement.
Earlier this month scientists announced plans to restart research into a promising treatment for Parkinson's disease after overcoming a debilitating side effect that caused human tests to be abandoned nine years ago.
In the latest study by the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) and Stanford University in the US, scientists used genetic techniques to make certain "pathways" – or circuits – in the brains of mice responsive to light.
The cells in these pathways could then be turned on and off by illuminating a laser shined through a hair-thin fibre optic cable inserted into the rodents.
It has long been believed, but never proven, that our movement is controlled by balancing the activity of two distinct circuits in the brain – the so-called "stop" and "go" pathways.
Dr Anatol Kreitzer of the GIND, who led the study, said: "Scientists had identified and diagrammed these circuits in the late 80s and early 1990s, but there had been no way to test their function in animal models."
The researchers found that by stimulating the "stop" cells in the mice's brains, they could mimic the affects of Parkinson's disease. Conversely, switching on the "go" cells in mice with Parkinson's-like symptoms had an instant positive impact on their condition.
Dr Kreitzer said: "We generated mice that lacked dopamine, and these mice showed many of the same symptoms found in humans with Parkinson's disease. But when we activated the 'go' pathway in these mice, they began to move around normally again.
"We restored all of their motor deficits with this treatment, even though the mice still lacked dopamine."
Dr Kreitzer added: "It's not something we can do for just a second. We can do this for as long as the laser is on."
The results of the study are published in this week's edition of Nature, the science journal. Parkinson's is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's, affecting around one in 14 people aged over 65.