Dr. Venkit Iyer has published a new book with title as "Aging well and Reaching Beyond". It is meant for general reading by all readers. It contains very useful information on preventive health care, wellness measures, elder care and end of life issues. It is available in Amazon and Barnes and Noble web sites. The book has received good reviews by various individuals. AKMG recommends the members to support his cause by buying one copy and he has pledged all proceeds to go charity. This is his second book- the first one was published two years ago with title as "Decision making in clinical surgery".
Cancer. The word itself strikes fear, bringing to mind a disease that feels like a betrayal from within. As the world's number-two killer, its a subject of immense research, with over a million papers published in the last fifty years alone. But what if our understanding of cancer is fundamentally flawed? What if this seemingly modern disease is not a chaotic accident of our genes, but a ghost of our evolutionary past, an ancient survival mechanism gone rogue? This perspective, while perhaps surprising, is gaining traction among scientists. It suggests that cancer is not a new invention of damaged cells, but a reversion to an older, more primitive way of life. To truly grasp this idea, we must embark on a journey back in time, over a billion years, to the very dawn of multicellular life. The Great Evolutionary Leap: From Individualism to Community For a staggering two billion years, life on Earth consisted solely of single-celled organisms. Their imperative was simple and si...


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