Meet Dr. Neha Sangwan, a young physician based in San Francisco, CA. She has been on the precipice and seen just how traumatic burnout can be. In fact, Neha Sangwan was her own first patient!

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Will students be heading to American universities to get their degrees as Ayurvedic doctors? Will patients seek out practitioners of this 5000 year old system of medicine from India when next they have health problems? And will Ayurveda form the basis for new health and beauty products, even of restaurant menus, in the US?

The incidence of prostate cancer amongst South Asians in the US is just 4.6 per 100,000 population as compared to 104.3 per 100,000 amongst non-South Asians. Yet when they come in for treatment, 85 percent of them are usually in the late stages, as compared to late stage prostate cancer diagnosis for non-South Asians which is around 15 percent.

Given the sheer numbers of the South Asian population around the world, it is imperative they get checked early. Dr. Ashutosh K. Tewari, an expert on prostate cancer and robotics, discusses the hard facts.

According to the World Health Organization, by 2010, 60 % of the world’s cardiac patients will be Asian Indian. The scary part is we are already in 2010! Indeed South Asians are predisposed by genetics for a higher probability of heart disease, but the lifestyle and diet habits can have a huge impact on whether they actually get the disease. It need not be a food-fight between healthy and tasty: One couple’s battle to make Indian food more heart-healthy.

Are you into yoga? What about your dog? If you didn’t know this already, there is yoga for dogs, known as Doga and it’s beneficial to your pets.

The meandering, thundering steel dragon, also known as the No. 1 subway train, rushed on, its belly filled with countless strugglers and dreamers all commuting to the gritty Upper West Side. At crowded 165th street, it disgorged a huge chunk of humanity – patients and families, small children, doctors and nurses – all headed to the New York- Presbyterian Hospital, one of the great teaching hospitals in the city.
Interestingly enough, there are several physicians of Indian descent who are leading the charge here with cutting edge technologies in cancer treatment and kidney transplants.

This ravaging disease is affecting more and more families, stealing memories, making people invisible and erasing meaningful lives lived, as if they never existed.

Integrative Medicine, while not curing cancer in any way, can help in even advanced metastasis by bringing about symptoms relief, and giving patients a more positive attitude.

To look at his resume is to wonder if it’s the resume of just one man – or several!