Good news! For keeping skin good looking and fresh, leech therapy is in the offering. The ministry of Health has given its nod to standardize and marketing this therapy. Unami Medicine experts are reported to have finalized the procedures to be followed by leech therapists in India. They also finalized training modules to popularize leech therapy in four Unami College at Bangalore, Aligarh, Delhi and Hyderabad. This therapy lightly effective for persons suffering from arthritis, sinusitis and hypertension. The training is important to use pure leech. The medicinal leeches are in three colours brown, red stripped and olive. Emphasis is on regulation of this therapy because some venders use single leech in multiple patients this risking the transferable diseases like HIV. Clinical to know the effects of leeching on various diseases. After satisfactory results this would be launched in the markets
August 5, 2009
May 21, 2009
Glaucoma Leading Cause For Blindness
Glaucoma is the leading cause for blindness. It is caused by increasing intraocular pressure which causes damage to the optic nerve that transmits visual information to the brain. It does not have any visible symptoms though in acute cases it includes blurry vision, halos around lights, eye pain, nausea and vomiting. Statistics reveal that about 4.8 lakh patients in India and about 1.2 lakhs new cases add up every year. At present 63% blindness is due to cataract, 4% is due to glaucoma. The sad thing is that India has just 12,000 ophthalmologists and needs about 40,000 optometrists of which only 8,000 are there. Such statistics reveal that more awareness is needed among the people.
India’s social structure on HIV and AIDS
We have been discussing this for long now but the problem still remains the same. In India women are at a much higher risk of falling prey to HIV/AIDS than men because while having sex a woman’s body has more sections exposed to the HIV virus then men. Moreover there is a larger virus present in sperm than in vaginal secretions. In India the society is male dominated and women are depended on men financial and even emotionally thus allowing the men to control their lives and the right as to when, with whom and in what circumstance they will have sex. While in cities the sex workers are aware of the consequences and reasons for HIV/AIDS, women in villages or small towns who are sex workers are more ignorant and are falling prey to HIV/AIDS. At time in villages even housewives are forced to sell themselves to survive. Rapes also make women prey to HIV/AIDS. More over women buying condoms and saying no to sex is not taken in the right way in the Indian Society.