Friday, January 8, 2016

3 Steps for Boosting Your Energy Naturally


Energy is easily one of the most powerful currencies of our time. In a culture where faster is better, more is never enough, and our workloads are never-ending, a lack of energy can become a huge hindrance for our body and mind. Most of us end up relying on caffeine, sugar, and fast food just to ...


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Swallowing caustic soda, accdentally.


PS
I had an acid burn patient who gave a similar story. This happened at the Elephant House bottling plant site in Sri Lanka. The patient, a driver in a delivery van had gone to pick up a load of aerated water. He was thirsty and had seen a bottle of what he thought was water inside a bottle on a table near where he parked his van inside the factory premises. He had taken the bottle and had gulped in a mouthful of the 'water'.
It happened to be caustic soda. He was rushed to the hospital. He ended up with a stricture - narrowing, of his oesophagus - gullet. We did surgery in our unit at the NHSL, Colombo, to repair  this.
PGV

New health guidelines, UK.

Thursday, January 7, 2016

'Nirthanjali' an evening of dance presented by Saranya, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Naval officer who seized the German 'Enigma' code machine dies.

New state of Hydrogen.

10 Powerful New Insights From The Science Of Happiness


The most surprising, provocative, and inspiring findings from the last year. Jekaterina Nikitina via Getty Images This article first appeared on Greater Good, the online magazine of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. More than a decade after Greater Good first started reporting on th...


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