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Homeopathy Is Not an Effective Treatment, Experts Say
Alexandra Sifferlin @acsifferlin
March 11, 2015 SHARE
Medical experts in Australia say there’s not enough evidence to support the practice

Link:-http://time.com/3741212/homeopathy-not-effective/?xid=fbshare

COMMENTS:

Let me share my personal experience of treating SEVERE dihorea with a combination of 3 Homeopathic medicines Podophylum200+Veratrum album30+Colocynthis30 (6-7 drops of each medicine mixed in a very little quantity of warm water).
I have found it extremely effective in immediately stopping dihorea and always keep these three Homoepathic medicine drops at hand for any emergency.
Actually all Homoepathic medicines are NOT effective if we take along lemon, lime, carbonated water and such things.
Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad
Lahore – Pakistan
www.snayyar.com
nayyar51@hotmail.com
@nayyarahmad

WASHINGTON: The swine flu virus in India which has already killed more than 1,500 people since December may have acquired mutations that make it more severe and infectious than previously circulating H1N1 strains, a new MIT study has warned.

The study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) contradicts previous reports from Indian health officials that the strain has not changed from the version of H1N1 that emerged in 2009.

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MIT researchers found that the recent Indian strains carry new mutations in the hemagglutinin protein that are known to make the virus more virulent.

Hemagglutinin binds to glycan receptors found on the surface of respiratory cells and the strength of that binding determines how effectively the virus can infect those cells.

In the past two years, genetic sequence information of the flu-virus protein hemagglutinin from only two influenza strains from India has been deposited into publicly available influenza databases which makes it difficult to determine exactly which strain is causing the new outbreak and how it differs from previous strains.

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“However, those two strains yielded enough information to warrant concern,” said Ram Sasisekharan, the Alfred H Caspary, professor of Biological Engineering at MIT and the paper’s senior author.

Sasisekharan and Kannan Tharakaraman, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering, compared the genetic sequences of those two strains (of 2014) to the strain of H1N1 that emerged in 2009 and killed more than 18,000 people worldwide between 2009 and 2012.

One of the new mutations is in an amino acid position called D225, which has been linked with increased disease severity, researchers said.

Another mutation, in the T200A position allows hemagglutinin to bind more strongly to glycan receptors, making the virus more infectious, the study found.

SPECIAL COVERAGE: Swine flu outbreak in India

Sasisekharan said that more surveillance is needed to determine whether these mutations are present in the strain that is causing the current outbreak, which is most prevalent in Gujarat and Rajasthan and has infected more than 20,000 people so far.

Meanwhile, in New Delhi health ministry officials said they will take up the issue with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) since the latter has been saying till now that there have not been any mutations.

“So far the ICMR has been saying that there is no mutation. But since the study has come up, we will take it up with ICMR for a final view,” additional secretary, health, Arun Panda said.

According to the latest figures from the Union health ministry data, as of March 10, as many as 1,537 people have perished due to swine flu while the number of infected people in the country is 27,234.

UAE’s genius batsman Anwar is at least repeat at least 100 times better player than timid and dud Ahmad Shahzad..!

Handicapped poor yet to receive photostat machine pledged in Sharif’s last tenure

Link:- http://nation.com.pk/editors-picks/11-Mar-2015/pm-s-orders-not-executed-in-16-years

“Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience — I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.”

— Cee Lo Green

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”

—Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author, Nobel Prize Winner

Why Pakistan is just as beautiful as Switzerland
By Parhlo Published: March 10, 2015
Link:- http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/26360/why-pakistan-is-just-as-beautiful-as-switzerland/

What about Mc Donald’s in Pakistan???

McDonald’s announced last week it will no longer serve chicken containing human antibiotics.

Link:- http://time.com/3738659/burger-king-soda-kids-menu/?xid=newsletter-brief

Few notes on Pak-US relationship…http://t.co/cBYqCDpFvR

THE MANAGEMENT TIP OF THE DAY: Harvard Business Review

March 11, 2015

CEOs Need to Know How to Manage a Board

As investors have become more powerful and boards more sovereign, it has become increasingly important for CEOs to manage up. To lead your directors and investors more effectively you should know how to:
Recruit strong directors. Directors should bring business leadership to the table. When recruiting new directors, assess their capacity to think strategically about the firm, its competitive position, and what creates or destroys value at the firm. Does the candidate have a proven record of working with and leading executives at other companies?
Restructure the board. Executives need to change a board from time to time to meet shifting market needs. Those who govern a company that is growing in its home market are likely different from those who can help an enterprise go global.
Evaluate directors. Work with the board to create annual evaluations of individual members, as well as reviews for the board as a whole.

Adapted from “How CEOs Can Best Manage Their Boards” by Michael Useem.