Indians try cupping as Phelps boosts this pain relieving technique

Cupping clinics get a Phelps boost as people try it for pain relief, and even facelifts. Long before the purple bruises on swimmer Michael Phelps’s body hit the head lines, Mumbai doctor Sahil Sheikh was a fan of cupping. Nagged by a chronic shoulder problem, the 35-year-old decided to try this alternative therapy. “Apart from mild dizziness immediately after the session, there were no side-effects,” he says. But he did report relief from pain. Like Sheikh, many Indians have become cupping devotees. The therapy, which has its origins in traditional…

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1/2 a million Indians Die Of cancer each 12 months: professionals

half a million human beings die of cancer yearly inside the usa due to loss of proper mechanism to perceive the disease and essential medical facilities to treat the terminal illness, V k Subburaj, Secretary branch of pharmaceuticals said. turning in a lecture at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical technology here, Subburaj said there are simplest 20,000 beds available for treatment of “psychiatric issues” in opposition to the requirement of 10 million. “each 12 months 1,000,000 most cancers instances are diagnosed. 1/2 of them die even before the disorder is recognized…

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