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Procedure To Get Disability Certificate/ Unique Disability Identity Card In India

Thedisability certificateand/ or Identity card is the basic document that a person with anydisabilityofmore than 40 percentrequires in order to ava...

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What is the right time to seek medical help from a specialist?

Scenario 1 “I wake up with a headache every morning. Is it possible that I have brain tumour? Perhaps it’s lack of sleep or too much screen time.” ...

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What makes a high risk pregnancy even riskier?

I had a high-risk pregnancy expecting twins at the age of 36 years. Somewhere at the end of the second trimester, I had gestational high blood pressu...

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Why Knowurture and why now?

Users are empowered I was scrolling through Facebook recently and was completely amazed at the extent of user empowerment. People use several platf...

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How do patients search for physicians?

In one of our recent blogs, I discussed how the digital age has transformed the way people are getting empowered. There are new ways of searching for...

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Is there a diet that can cure you of your diseases?

For the longest time, there has been a complex relation between food and health. We know that food is medicine, and healthy diets can boost long-term...

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Why don’t physicians and medical experts educate their patients?

After a serious ailment, do you wish that your doctor provided a thorough action plan, follow up and a complete guideline to manage your overall heal...

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The role of Medical History in accurate diagnosis

Whenever you visit a physician, you are full of apprehensions. There are doubts like if the physician will understand your medical concerns correctly...

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Your complete guide to your child's allergy

When a child is born, they enter a new world that is full of wonders. Unfortunately, the wonderful world also has some unpleasant things that they mu...

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Identifying and treating food allergies in children

When a toddler starts trying new foods, it’s difficult to say the foods that they might be allergic to. While there are some common foods that can ca...

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Your complete guide to protect your child from airborne allergies

“There is something in the air”. Isn’t it something that we hear often when your child is sneezing or coughing incessantly? Usually its allergens in ...

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Everything you need to know about inflammation

When you experience something warm, red, and painful and warm, you know that you have an inflammation. Inflammation is human body’s defence mechani...

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Are physicians biased against obese people?

Obese people tend to have more ailments. Overweight invites health issues. Fat people are responsible for their own set of diseases. Don’t we all c...

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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability - William Osler "Every science touches art at some points every art has its scientifi...

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Should you take a fever seriously?

High fever is a concern for anyone. I’ve often wondered the reason why people don’t get concerned about prolonged fever as much as high fever. Sinc...

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Cure and management of recurrent UTI

UTI occurs due to a bacterial infection. The bacteria is the infamous monster E.coli or Escherichia coli that enters the urethra from the anus. It is...

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Everything you wanted to know about chronic hiccups

Any person, young or old, can have hiccups. Even an unborn baby has hiccups in the mother’s womb. Hiccups are hardly taken seriously. It is a distu...

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It’s time to #TalkAboutMenopause and educate men

When someone close to us suffers from an ailment or a medical condition, we instantly Google it and fill ourselves with as much information as possib...

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Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) – complications and treatment options

Isn’t it surprising that a high percentage of women suffer from Urine Infection or UTI? Symptoms like burning, bloody urine, back pain, frequent and ...

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If only we cared and were better prepared for a pandemic, even Novel Coronavirus sooner

It's like living in a sci-fi movie. Deserted roads, a person or two walking with masks on and people are looking at each other with skepticism. Now a...

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Everything you wanted to know about that persistent sneezing (when the world is paranoid about COVID-19 infection)

Talking about sneezing is horrific in current times. We look suspiciously at any person the moment he or she sneezes or coughs. In such uncertain tim...

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Fighting epilepsy-related stigma and a guide for care providers

The word ‘epilepsy’ is derived from the Greek Verb, which means to be overwhelmed by surprise. Though epilepsy is the most common brain disorder, the...

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The ‘new normal’ of consulting a doctor

The uncertain healthcare world must adopt digital communication. Though the adoption has been sudden, dramatic and abrupt due to COVID 19. The novel ...

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Are you feeling breathless? It could be Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

As complicated as it sounds, COPD or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease killed a million Indians in 2017. It is a progressive condition that destr...

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Contactless Physician Interactions

The world is suddenly filled with COVID-19 information. We are reading so much about how this happened, why did it happen, when will it get better an...

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Understanding ‘immunity’ – Can it help you fight #COVID19?

In the last 2 months, I have stocked my house with cumin, lemon, ginger, basil, cinnamon, mint leaves, Ashwagandha, Aloe Vera, and Amla (thanks to Wh...

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Heal with Knowurture : How to sleep better - Tips from Dr. Pramodh R.K.

Heal with Knowurture is a series of blog interviews with Dr. Pramodh R.K. He is a Preventive and Life Style Medicine expert who helps people to sleep...

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Learning to live with COVID-19 - India Chapter

If you live in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, or Ahmedabad, you are probably really worried about stepping out. I might have missed out a few pla...

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Heal with Knowurture: How Not to Fear COVID-19 – Tips from Dr Pramodh R.K.

In continuation of our series of blogs, Dr Pramodh R.K. shares something on a topic that is relevant in the current scenario. Restlessness, insecurit...

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We are more responsible for our health in a post-COVID 19 world

Initially, I thought it might be the end of the world. I mean when was it that we were stuck at home for so long? When was it that we feared getting ...

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Patient Communities - Your network of 'micro experts'

We have an innate desire to feel connected with others who live life through similar situations. Now on you do not have to experience your illness i...

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"No-fault errors" - Understanding Diagnosis -2

"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes"" Ge...

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Misdiagnosis - Understanding Diagnosis - 1

When people feel ill and go to see their doctor, they usually trust that the doctor will have the training and skills necessary to provide them with ...

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Cognitive Bias - Understanding Diagnosis - 3

What do you see? A woman walking by or maybe… the face of a man? Medicine, the noblest of professions , is primarily a cognitive profession. Physi...

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Art and Science of Medicine

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability -William Osler "Every science tou...

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But erasing the stigma starts with doing the thing that might scare us most – talking about it. Living with epilepsy is a journey that one should not...

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