Health concepts Archives

Mouth and foot painting: A special ability in postage stamps

By rjoshimgims August 18, 2024Health concepts, Misc2 Comments

Index Home When hands and arms fail, but determination reins supreme, we come across some special abilities. Mouth and foot painting is one such special ability, that is leaves us awestruck.…

Donate a healthy organ to mend another’s failed one

By rjoshimgims August 13, 2024Health concepts4 Comments

Index Home A desire, that we could replace a failed organ, is age-old. Hindu God Ganesha, had his head replaced by one of an elephant. So are numerous chimeric Greek gods,…

A familiar orthoses from the past: Leather and metal polio-brace

By rjoshimgims August 11, 2024Health concepts, Tools in Health3 Comments

Index Home Orthoses are external supports attached to a limb or a body part. Today such devices are made of lighter materials, and are used to support knee, ankle, elbow or…

Basic Life Support (BLS) makes dead alive again

By rjoshimgims July 22, 2024Health concepts, Tools in Health

Index Home Basic Life Support or BLS is a sequence of actions, that attempt to bring life back, after it has seemingly ceased. When heart stops, or lungs fail to…

Babywearing: A new name for an old tradition

By rjoshimgims July 17, 2024Health concepts, Misc2 Comments

Index Home Words have a history, and so has "babywearing". As per Webster's dictionary, we used this word for the first time in the year 1989. It is the practice of…

Cardiac surgery: putting heart under a knife

By rjoshimgims July 14, 2024Health concepts2 Comments

Index Home In 1896 a textbook of surgery had noted that operating on a heart is impossible. Muscles of the heart are always in motion, and its chambers are always churning…

Wavy ECG gestures that make our heart to beat

By rjoshimgims July 12, 2024Health concepts, Tools in Health3 Comments

Index Home We all live, without skipping a heart-beat. These are more than 25 billion beats over a life-time. Each of these beats means that our heart muscles have had a…

The history of hysteria, our frenzy of womb or mind

By rjoshimgims July 7, 2024Health concepts, Medical Diseases1 Comment

Index Home Jean Charcot A famous French Physician Hysteria is a state of emotional extreme. Today we know it as an uncontrolled frenzy or excitement, that may stem from intense happiness,…

Yoga: An Indian cultural export to the world

By rjoshimgims June 20, 2024Health concepts14 Comments

Index Home Yoga is a centuries-old practice that combines physical, mental, and spiritual elements to promote overall well-being and harmony. The word means - "to join". It joins mind and the…

Caring for age and to cherish our lives

By rjoshimgims June 16, 2024Health concepts, Medical Diseases11 Comments

Index Home We do not want to age, yet all of us will. We also want to live long, and defy both age and death. However, this wish gets fulfilled in…