by Shefali Luthra | Jan 8, 2019 | Healthy Life
Whenever I see a report touting possible new peanut allergy treatments, I devour it. I can’t help it. It’s an occupational hazard for any health journalist whose reporting specialty and medical history intertwine. I write about the business of health care, focusing on...
by Mukund Acharya | Jan 3, 2019 | Health & Wellness, Healthy Life
Greg Kaufman manages the Music Program at Stanford Hospital. He recalls being stopped in the hallway by a patient who was going to be discharged. “Aren’t you the music man?” the patient asked Greg. “Yes,” Greg replied. “There are a lot of great doctors here who cured...
by Ritu Marwah | Dec 14, 2018 | Articles, Health & Wellness
Long lines in front of eye doctors’ clinics do not include children who have never complained that they can’t see. They are blind, and they don’t know it. Their world has always been hazy. They have never seen it any other way. Thousands of others are silently turning...
by Vivek Wadhwa | Dec 2, 2018 | Health & Wellness
A Chinese scientist from a university in Shenzhen claims he has succeeded in creating the world’s first genetically edited babies. He told the Associated Press that twin girls were born earlier this month after he edited their embryos using CRISPR technology to remove...
by Praba Iyer | Nov 19, 2018 | Recipes
It was going to be a simple dinner. Some piping hot onion khuzhambu (tamarind curry) and fried potato cubes with brown rice. Just as I was setting the table our good friends who are wine enthusiasts, wanted to stop by. I ran to my wine collection in panic, for Indian...
by Praba Iyer | Nov 13, 2018 | Recipes
In early September, I joined my husband as he went back to his village in Palakkad, Kerala, after a ten year hiatus. He had grown up in Palakkad in a large joint family with his grandmother, mother, brother and sisters along with several uncles, aunts and cousins,...
