Navjyoti Dalal talks to Suraag Lambrou , who has mastered the art of somatic healing, which emphasises the role of the nervous system in mitigating pain or trauma   Ever felt like snapping out of your body/consciousness during an unbearable headache? Well, it’s not entirely impossible anymore. Suraag Lambrou, a somatic healer (trauma therapist), professional speaker and consultant based in Mumbai, teaches you how to ‘gain balance in the nervous system’. Hailing from South Africa, Suraag ‘developed’ the concept of somatic healing over a period of more than 12 years using various trauma therapies, meditation, and psychology. “Vipassana contributed a lot towards the development of somatic healing,” says the healer, who is also the founder of Somatic Healing and Trauma First Aid (TFA), India.   Somatic healing taps into the recesses of the mind/nervous system to take care of the stress and trauma that the body goes through, Suraag tells us.

Navjyoti Dalal talks to Suraag Lambrou , who has mastered the art of somatic healing, which emphasises the role of the nervous system in mitigating pain or trauma   Ever felt like snapping out of your body/consciousness during an unbearable headache? Well, it’s not entirely impossible anymore. Suraag Lambrou, a somatic healer (trauma therapist), professional speaker and consultant based in Mumbai, teaches you how to ‘gain balance in the nervous system’. Hailing from South Africa, Suraag ‘developed’ the concept of somatic healing over a period of more than 12 years using various trauma therapies, meditation, and psychology. “Vipassana contributed a lot towards the development of somatic healing,” says the healer, who is also the founder of Somatic Healing and Trauma First Aid (TFA), India.   Somatic healing taps into the recesses of the mind/nervous system to take care of the stress and trauma that the body goes through, Suraag tells us.

Malaria could be a thing of the past, thanks to a powerful new pill in the offing. Just a single dose of an experimental drug was found to clear the disease in mice carrying the killer infection, say London researchers.   Now a team of scientists have found a drug, NITD609, that they say is effective against the two most common parasites responsible for malaria - Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax - and also against a range of drug-resistant strains.   “From the beginning, NITD609 stood out because it looked different, in terms of its structure and chemistry, from all other currently used anti-malarials,” said Elizabeth Winzeler of the US National Institutes of Health who worked on the team.   The scientists found that NITD609 targets a different parasite protein from other anti-malarial drugs, and one oral dose was enough to clear the tropical disease.

PUNE: A five-year prospective study on lifestyle-related diseases has been conducted by Symbiosis School in association with the Paediatric Department of KEM Hospital to make schoolchildren aware of the same.   A meeting of school principals was held recently at the Symbiosis Vishwabhavan, where 28 principals deliberated about the findings. Dean, Symbiosis Institute of Health Sciences (SIHS) and Symbiosis Centre of Health Care (SCHC), stated the need and possibility of addressing lifestyle-related disorders amongst student scommunity. KEM’s Paediatric Research Consultant Dr Sheila Bhave gave a presentation on ‘School Health Initiatives in Prevention of Childhood Obesity and other Lifestyle Disorder’.   Symbiosis School Principal Leena Chaudhary shared how their school has increased physical education periods, included 20 minutes zero period and gave marks for physical education.

NEW DELHI : Concerned that acquisition of Indian pharma companies by MNCs was impacting availability of low-cost medicines, Industry Ministry today mooted the idea of giving licences to domestic firms to produce patented drugs to protect consumers' interests.   Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma, whose ministry formulates foreign direct investment norms, also proposed tightening rules so that Indian acquisitions by MNCs flow through it instead of the automatic route now. In a communication, Sharma requested Ghulam Nabi Azad, his counterpart in Health Ministry, to examine a discussion paper on "Compulsory Licencing" -- a system whereby a third party other than the patent holder is allowed to produce and market a patented product or process- for formulating a "coherent and concerted approach".