Health

California girl licensed to own unicorn — if she finds one


A girl named Madeline, with a vivid imagination and remarkable awareness of how bureaucracy can dash dreams, got her wish when she asked Los Angeles animal control authorities for a license to own a unicorn — if she’s able to find one. The first-of-its-kind permit came with strings attached, however: The mythical creature must be...

700 new species now facing extinction


Populations of a vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction, an international conservation organization said. The International Union for Conservation of Nature announced the update during the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP15, conference in Montreal. The union’s hundreds of members include...

With NYC plan for mentally ill, hospitals face complex task


New York City’s latest plan to keep mentally ill people from languishing in public is billed as a common-sense strategy to get them help. By encouraging police officers and city medics to take more psychologically disturbed people to hospitals, even if they refuse care, Mayor Eric Adams says he’s humanely tackling a problem instead of looking...

FDA clears updated COVID-19 vaccines for kids under age 5


U.S. regulators have cleared doses of the updated COVID-19 vaccines for children younger than age 5. The Food and Drug Administration’s decision aims to better protect the littlest kids amid an uptick in COVID-19 cases around the country — at a time when children’s hospitals already are packed with tots suffering from other respiratory illnesses...

Neck Rotation: To delay or prevent age related stiffness


By Atul Vyas  Stiff neck and pain in the neck often occurs when one of the facet jo that links the vertebrae in the spinal column is suddenly twisted or jerked. The vertebrae is more or less cylindrical with a flat surface at the top and bottom, and a small hole running vertically through each towards...

Return to the Endless Cycle for Restoring Mental Health


By Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya Ancient Bharatiya traditions place prime emphasis on development of manōbala (bala=strength, manas=the feeling/ emotional mind) for starting anything new. All successful Ayurvedic medical prescriptions quietly calculate all disease prognosis, personal power, and relationships based on the mental strength of each person. This is one reason why two people with the same...

Yogic Traction: Helps in Curing Cervical Spondylosis


By Atul Vyas  Cervical Spondylosis is degeneration or wear and tear of spinal discs in the cervical spine. Cervical spine is made up of seven vertebrae that are joined to each other by inverted discs and ligaments.It is curved with convexity forward. The maximum point of convexity is at the level of disc between 5th...

Branding Ayurveda


by Bhaswati Bhattacharya  The past quarter century has seen several campaigns successfully change the opinions of Indians toward India. They have shifted buying patterns of the common people who preferred foreign cars, foreign clothes, foreign cosmetics, and foreign watches and toward items that promote Indian values. Patanjali/Divya, the BJP, and fabIndia have made inroads to...

Yogic relaxation for back pain


By Atul Vyas It is still not clear why certain people are prone to back pain, while others with similar physiques and living in the same circumstances are not. It is partly because of emotional or psychological factors. These play just as big a part in back pain as clearly diagnosed physical disorders. Medical science has...