Category: HEALTH

By: Dr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Asstt. Editor-ICN LUCKNOW: A Toothbrush is the most useful and habitually used oral hygiene aid to keep the oral cavity healthy. According to the Council on dental therapeutics Of the American dental association, a toothbrush is primarily designed to promote cleanliness of the teeth and the oral cavity. Objectives of Tooth brushing 1: To clean the teeth and interdental areas 2: To prevent plaque formation 3: To stimulate and massage the gingival tissue 4: to clean the tongue TYPES   Manual Toothbrush:- A Manual Toothbrush…

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By: Dr. Ashfaq Ahmad Khan, B.U.M.S.(Govt. Medical Officer) & Associate Editor-ICN LUCKNOW: As we all know that we are using traditional medicine to cure our diseases or physical ailments without any harmful effects since ancient times. Nature has given us so valuable things to keep our body fit and healthy. Besides all facilities in this new era sometimes many among us facing  some physical troubles or acute condition of health problem when any medical facilities are not available at that time…basically at late night..Then what to do now..Don’t worry there…

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Suicide is an act of purposefully ending ones own life which is not only a personal tragedy but a loss which affects an entire family and nation.  The good news is that it is preventable and we can do something about it. According to WHO data, the age standardized suicide rate in India is 16.4 per 100,000 for women (6th highest in the world) and 25.8 for men (ranking 22nd). Around 150 million Indians are are suffering from mental illness but only ten percent can get the treatment  and this…

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By: Prof. (Dr.) Mohd. Aleem Siddiqui, M.D.,D.P.M., Sr. Associate Editor-ICN Group & Dr. Shazia Veqar Siddiqui, Asstt. Editor-ICN LUCKNOW: According to  World Health Organisation, globally one person commits  suicide every 40 seconds, India accounted for the highest estimated number of suicides in the world in 2012. According to the report, 258,075 people committed suicide in India in 2012, with 99,977 women and 158,098 men taking their own lives.  A number of clinically useful individual and sociodemographic factors are associated with suicide. They include: Psychiatric disorders (generally depression, alcoholism and personality disorders); Physical illness…

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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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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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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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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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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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