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New Delhi, Jan 24: The Union Cabinet today approved establishment of the All India Institute of Ayurveda in New Delhi as an autonomous organization under the Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH).

The Cabinet also gave approval to appointment of a director with supporting staff to oversee the project implementation.The decision will facilitate scientific validation, quality control, standardization and safety evaluation of Ayurveda products; standardised Ayurveda-based tertiary health delivery; and to promote interdisciplinary research and education of Ayurveda at postgraduate and postdoctoral levels.

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In order to uplift Ayurveda and Siddha system of treatment the centre has decided to take initiative to launch a campaign to aware people of such age old modes of treatment especially for elderly people. The campaign is aimed at generating awareness in public about the importance of Ayurveda and Siddha.

For ch campaign national level workshop in Delhi from January 23, likewise state and district level workshop have also been envisaged.

Anita Das Secretary Department AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy) said, “Considering the time-tested efficacy of Ayurveda and Siddha systems in preventive and promotive aspects of health care, it is desirable to disseminate the scientific aspects and research findings of these systems for the benefit of the public.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Carlsbad, CA, January 21, 2008 –– Chopra.com today launched its intention blog forum, making a call to the global online community to post their personal commitments to positive change in the world. The goal of the intention blog is to create a critical mass of individuals focusing their energy on transformation, healing, and growth.

All change and transformation is brought about by our thoughts, intentions and our attention,” said Chopra Center co-founder Deepak Chopra, M.D. By declaring our intentions and sending them out into the world – whether through chopra.coms blog forum or by other means – we set the organizing power of the universe in motion. Publicly declaring ones intentions generates more attention, and therefore more power, for their fulfillment.”

Bloggers from cities and villages around the world – including places as far flung as South Africa, Brazil, Jerusalem, India, Italy, and the United States – are posting their goals, dreams, and commitments on www.chopra.com/intention08list. Read the rest of this entry »

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The twenty-first century is witnessing a gradual decline in fertility, and with increase in life expectancy, the society will need to grapple with issues of longevity. The cause of morbidity and mortality world over is shifting from communicable diseases a few decades ago to non-communicable diseases. The leading causes of mortality among aged people comprise respiratory problems, heart diseases, cancer and stroke. Significant causes of morbidity among this group is chronic inflammatory and degenerative conditions such as Arthritis, Diabetes Osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s disease, depression, psychiatric disorders, Parkinson’s disease and age related urinary problems.

The biggest challenge with geriatric problem is that in most of the cases the condition cannot be attributed to a single cause or in certain conditions of neuro-psychiatric disorders like, Senile dementia, Alzheimer’s depression, the structural cause is unknown. In such cases the conventional medical therapy fails to come out with effective management plan and hence is severely compromised. Another challenge with conventional medical therapy is that it does not have health-promoting agents. Ayurveda on the other hand has interventions like chayavanaprasha, triphala that enhance physiological processes that influence metabolic and immunological status. Such interventions are significant in the context of geriatric care.
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New Jersey, January 21, 2008 — After successful launch of the first Kerala Ayurvedic & Yoga Center on November 4, 2007 in New York, Santhigram Kerala Ayurvedic Co. of US Inc. announced launching of its second US Center at Holiday Inn, Raritan Center, Edison, New Jersey on Thursday, January 17, 2008. This is the second center of the Company in the United States and was inaugurated by Mr. Sai Kumar, the renowned Malayalam Cine Actor. Mr. Upendra J Chivikula, Member of New Jersey General Assembly has presided over the function. Ms. Bindu Panicker, The renowned Malayalam Cine Actress, Dr. Sudhanshu Prasad, Councilman of Edison, Mr. Alex Vilanilam Koshy, Global President, World Malayalee Council, Inc., Mr. K.O. Mathew, Managing Director, Olive Builders, Mr. Ram Cheerath, Immigration Attorney and Mr. Reji George, President Kerala Association of New Jersey were the Guests of Honor.

Mr. Sai Kumar, Mr. Upendra J Chivikula and all other honoured guests who spoke at the occasion have appreciated the efforts of Santhigram in bringing Authentic Kerala specific Ayurvedic Therapies to United States and wished the Company to set up more and more Centers in various parts of US in the coming years and assured all their support for the endeavour.
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The Department of Ayush, which regulates the estimated Rs 6,000-crore ayurveda, siddha and unani Indian Systems of Medicine (ISM), has initiated new licensing norms to weed out irrational patent and proprietary (P&P) medicines, which are innovated products not mentioned in classical texts of the ISM.

The department’s move comes close on the heels of the Drug Controller General of India’s attempts to weed out ‘irrational’ pharmaceutical formulations or innovated fixed-dose combinations (FDCs) of known chemical compounds combined not in accordance with pharmacopoeia standards.

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A web portal - www.bharathgramarogya.net - was launched by eminent scientist MS Swaminathan and the 95th Indian Science Congress (ISC) general president R Ramamurthi during the sectional activities of Information and Communication Science and Technology section in Visakhapatnam on Sunday.

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