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DON’T GIVE IN TO ANTIBIOTICS JUST YET

August 14, 2018 Urbanatural

Get Smart about Antibiotics Every year, you face your share of common cold, flu, and sore throats. When you check with your doctor, do you automatically ask for a prescription for antibiotics? Or is it the other way round? Your doctor reaches for the prescription pad to give you an antibiotic always? However, this isn’t the best solution always. While there’s no denying the fact that antibiotics are potent pills and have saved many lives over the years, did you know that over-prescription leads to other deadly problems? Before, we…

Yogasanas

February 1, 2018 Urbanatural

Yogasanas help exercise external as well as internal body parts. This helps with proper body functioning, thereby ensuring good physical health, as well as mental peace and calm.The various postures help correct our physiological and physical imbalances and help us tone our musculo-skeletal system. If practiced properly and regularly, yoga has an extremely rejuvenative and therapeutic effect on our body. If you are a beginner, you should always perform the yogasanas under the supervision of an expert trainer, who would advice you on which asanas are good for you keeping…

‘World running out of antibiotics, pathogens getting resistant,’ WHO warns

October 5, 2017 Urbanatural

Besides TB, the WHO has also identified 12 classes of priority pathogens — including common infections like pneumonia or urinary tract infections — that are increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics and urgently in need of new treatments. Antibiotics that are currently in clinical development are insufficient to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report said. Most of the drugs currently in the clinical phase are modifications of existing classes of antibiotics and are only short-term solutions, WHO said. There are, however, very few potential…