
Progressive Homoeopathic Society is organizing the 5th DR. M.L. AGRAWAL MEMORIAL LECTURES on 28th October 2012 (Sunday) at Nehru Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, New Delhi as a tribute to the revered teacher, Late Dr. M.L. Agrawal. This seminar shall serve as a platform for all homeopaths to share their clinical experiences based on principles [...]

Gangrene is localized soft-tissue death (necrosis) from prolonged blood-supply blockage. It can occur in atherosclerosis, diabetes mellitus, or decubitus ulcer, and after severe burns or frostbite. New research studies are finding different new ways to treat gangrene to save body parts. Gangrene is a dreadful disease in which the profession has failed to offer much [...]

Today, Mayo Clinic opened the wall of one of its hospitals and used a crane to slide in a huge, high-tech steel box designed to heal patients and foster medical discoveries. The box is a 3,800-cubic-foot, high-pressure hyperbaric system that contains three specialized therapy rooms.

Michigan based meat company has initiated recall of 129,000 pounds of beef products in 15 states in the United States because of possible E. coli contamination.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told 20 companies to cease marketing unapproved drug products containing ergotamine tartrate.

Garlic has been hailed a wonder drug for centuries and has been used to prevent gangrene, treat high blood pressure, ward off common colds and is even believed by some to have cancer-fighting properties.

Surgeons at the Methodist DeBakey Heart Center in Houston were among the first in the U.S. to implant a new vascular graft engineered to reduce the risk of blood clots in patients treated for peripheral arterial disease (PAD), which affects as many as 12 million Americans over the age of 50.

Indicated in septic conditions, as puerperal mania; in diarrhoea of a grave character, dysentery, Asiatic cholera; in passive haemorrhages; in gangrene (senile). In all these the serious nature of the affection is shown by evidence of collapse, foulness of discharges, suppression of urine, unquenchable thirst, coldness of the body to touch, haemorrhagic tendency. Also of value in spinal disease with cramping, formication and numbness, and loss of motor power.

Indicated chiefly in diseases of grave character with the mental symptoms peculiar to the remedy, thirst, restlessness, exhaustion after even slightest exertion, and aggravation after midnight.

Gangrene is the term used to describe the decay or death of an organ or tissue caused by a lack of blood supply. It is a complication resulting from infectious or inflammatory processes, injury, or degenerative changes associated with chronic diseases, such as diabetes mellitus.