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April 27, 2018

Traditional health claims about India’s ayurvedic foods help make them big business

This article has been republished under a Creative Commons license from The Conversation. The original piece was authored by Ajay Patel, senior lecturer in food law at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. It can be accessed here. Full credit goes to the original author and publisher.  ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In India, you can buy saffron that is “useful in asthma, indigestion, …

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Why do just one percent of HBV-positive Indians receive treatment?

Just five countries account for 57 percent of the world’s cases of hepatitis B virus (HBV). India is one of them. Almost 292 million people worldwide have HBV. Of these, just five percent receive the treatment they need. Ninety percent are undiagnosed, according to a study published earlier this year in The Lancet. The study …

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