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Whether it’s cold or body ache, lack of time to be sick, urges majority of patients to demand for antibiotics. Worldwide use of antibiotics in humans has soared to 39 percent since 2000. Despite of the known fact that antibiotics do not cure viral infections doctors still write the drugs unnecessarily for ailments they cannot treat. This has led to the evolution of drug resistant bacteria and has also raised the addiction to antibiotics. “For some reason, faith in the body’s natural ability to heal itself has waned and everyone believes that an antibiotic is the only possible cure that could help.” Dr. Anna Julien Antibiotic resistance  is an emerging threat to the globe and has been aggravated by smooth availability of drugs with pronounced growth in β-lactam antibacterial. These are easily accessible globally through prescriptions written by non-allopathic doctors as well as outdated prescriptions. A

Celiac Disease , literally known as gluten allergy, is a serious lifelong auto immune disorder. Two and a half million Americans remain undiagnosed. In this, the patient develops immune responses against gluten protein attacking the small intestine thereby reducing the absorption of nutrients from food. This is most common in Caucasians but now found globally. The rate of incidence is 1 in 100 worldwide. What is Gluten? Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye and barley. Ingestion of these grains triggers cellular immune responses, development of antibodies against gluten protein, damaging the lining of small intestine. Small finger-like projections, micro-villi , line the small intestine. Antibodies generated in response to gluten protein damage these tiny projections hampering optimal absorption of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients from food. 3 W’s: When, Whom and Why Celiac can develop at any age once humans start eating foods and medicine

Ever pondered upon the + or – sign ahead of your blood type? Rh blood types were discovered in 1940 by Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener.  This was 40 years after Landsteiner had discovered the ABO blood groups. The Rh system was named after rhesus monkeys, since they were initially used in the research to make the antiserum for typing blood samples.  Rhesus protein is second in its clinical importance only to the ABO blood group. The D antigen, discovered in 1939, was the first Rhesus antigen to be described. D positive patients were termed Rhesus-positive. In 1946, a quantitative variant with a weakly expressed D antigen was discovered and termed “D u ”. This variant, now called “weak D”, is of clinical and diagnostic importance. Since 1953, is has been clear that there are also qualitative variants of the D antigen. Although patients with this partial D variant are positive for the D antigen, they can also form anti-D. Up to 1% of all pregnant women have clinically