Matters of the Heart and Heart Health

What is your politics doing to your children's minds? Initially published by Daily Pakistan Global. Follow link here https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/opinion/blog/what-is-your-politics-doing-to-your-childrens-minds/ During my medical school days when I would visit home for vacations, my younger siblings, who were going to KG at that time, would flabbergast me with political questions. It was summer of 2009, when one day my little comrade with his quizzical looks, asked me about political turmoil and corruption in Pakistan which, of course was not less than a shock for me. Probably, in his puerile mind, he wanted to know why in our country these occurrences were prevalent. He also heard of bomb blasts and certain people killing other people. I got worrisome, indeed, that what exactly was irking his mind. I had to calm him down first to be able to recognize what was he thinking. It was revealed to me that he overheard his teachers discussing content of newspapers and re...

Simple scientific connotation of the process of aging Artistic depiction of brain plasticity Aging has been the debate since a while now, above all, the various factors responsible for it. The irrefutable delineation as a result of research studies and experimentation, aging is interpreted as a physiologic process which appears in the form of progressive waning in organ function. Organ functional decline occurs at cellular and molecular level. Biochemical molecules responsible for cellular processes become blunt, rigid and less active to perform the labor assigned to them, hindering cells to work normally like they used to. Important to note is all of these phenomena do not occur methodical or together. For instance a cell might lose a particular function but other cellular pathways will be working routinely. Aging occurs in each and every cell of every organ resulting in accumulative decline of bodily functions. Interestingly this complex physiologic process is observed ...