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Indian Doctor Battles Burnout

By Lavina Melwani • May 17th, 2010 • Category: Health

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!



Does Your Dog Do Doga?

By Lavina Melwani • Mar 14th, 2010 • Category: Health

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 Riddle of Alzheimer’s

By Lavina Melwani • Oct 4th, 2009 • Category: Health

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



Take That, Cancer!

By Lavina Melwani • Aug 25th, 2009 • Category: Health

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.



Atul Gawande: The RX for Excellence

By Lavina Melwani • May 28th, 2009 • Category: Books, Health, People

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



Deepak Chopra on Life

By Lavina Melwani • Mar 13th, 2009 • Category: Books, Faith, Health, People

“I have never flown, spoken, moved from hotel to hotel or country to country. Those are activities I long ago delegated to my body. I am always at home and have never left.”