Health

At the turn of the 21st century, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published an article about the 10 greatest public health achievements...

  For a long time, medieval medicine has been dismissed as irrelevant. This time period is popularly referred to as the “Dark Ages,” which erroneously...

South Africa has been wrapped up in public and parliamentary debates on the value of South Africa’s proposed sugar tax. These highlight that the...

Two years ago, former President Barack Obama announced the Precision Medicine initiative in his State of the Union Address. The initiative aspired to a...

Aspen Pharmaceuticals, a South African drug company, plotted to drive up the prices for several of its products, including a chemotherapy drug called busulfan, a drug called Leukeran...

We spend one-third of our life sleeping or resting. A person who is seventy, taking the average of 7-8 hours of rest daily, would...

Tuberculosis and HIV/Aids continues to be the leading cause of death in South Africa and the Western Cape. Afrika Tikkun hosted a TB Awareness...

In the previous article we understood the root cause of arthritis and how one can keep it at bay. Along with the ayurvedic cure...

While most arthritis patients take to physiotherapists for treatment, they are unaware of the psychosomatic origins of the disease. Arthritis is essentially a manifestation of emotional congestion that...

In the previous article we learnt a pranayam and a cleansing technique for keeping asthama at bay. When the allergens irritate the lungs, our body...

Cirrhosis of the liver is a serious problem and once it sets in then the liver starts to degenerate. In the first stage the...

Are you depressed? Is it because your job doesn't pay you well enough? Or because your spouse and children do not listen to you?...