Cipla's new strawberry-flavored medicine can save kids from AIDS

In a bid to save thousands of children from HIV AIDS, Indian pharmaceutical company Cipla has introduced a revolutionary new drug called Quadrimune.

The medicine, developed in partnership with not-for-profit Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), carries the flavor of strawberries and can be consumed easily by toddlers and babies.

Plus, it is relatively inexpensive as well.

Here's all about it.
Problem with HIV medication for kids

While we already have medicinal treatments for babies living with HIV, all those methods revolve around old, bitter-tasting pills or syrups with as much as 40% alcohol content.

Also, all the current medicines require refrigeration, which is often a problem in regions like Africa, where warm temperatures and electricity are common issues. In fact, people tend to bury medicines in the sand for cooling.
Data
1.8 million children living with HIV, 300 die every day

Going by the numbers, nearly 1.8 million children are estimated to be living with HIV (90% being in sub-Saharan Africa) and merely 54% of them get treated properly. This means nearly 300 children die from AIDS every day.

Solution
Now, Cipla has a pleasant-tasting solution

After years of struggle with these problems, Cipla has finally developed the answer - Quadrimune.

The drug comes in the form of a capsule, but its strawberry-flavored granules, which are nearly as big as sugar grains, can be easily swallowed by infants and kids.

Parents can make it even more palatable by mixing it with milk or baby cereal.

Advantage
Also, it doesn't require refrigeration

Quadrimune has been designed with a combination of four heat-stable antiretrovirals (ARVs), which means there's no need for refrigeration for the drug.

"The new Quadrimune is pleasant-tasting, heat-stable, and easy-to-use," Bernard Pécoul, Executive Director of DNDi said. "We will finally have a treatment designed specifically for infants and young children, who are at the highest risk of dying if they do not receive treatment."

Once approved, it would save thousands of kids

Quadrimune is being reviewed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and should receive approval by next year.

Once that is done, the drug will cost less than $1/day for a child between 10-14kg and 50 cents/day for younger toddlers.

This would hopefully make the treatment of HIV accessible to more people and save tens of thousands of children worldwide.

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15 amazing beauty hacks

Beauty-hacks are methods in make-up, about which nothing is written in the description of the means or instructions on its packaging. These are the tricks about the existence of which you can learn only by experience - or you can learn from others.

In our time, every girl must know the beauty hacks, because we are not such spenders, as men say about us. We will be able to hack even the beauty industry to become a little more economical.

Talking about our beauty secrets, we tend to share with the girlfriends useful knowledge that all women should have without exception. Here are 15 tips for skincare and hair, allowing you to look good in a few minute.

1 Clean hair

The owners of oily hair are ready to sell the soul to the devil so that the head remains clean longer. And if your strands are also thin, then in a day your hair turns into a dirty patch. Add some sea salt to the shampoo and the hair will be clean longer.

2 Thick eyelashes

Many women can be proud of their thick and long eyelashes, but there are those who have not been lucky with either long or thick. If you are suffering from this problem, just pour castor oil, vitamin E and aloe vera into an empty tube. Apply this mixture to the eyelashes at night and after a month you will see startling changes.

3 Dark circles under the eyes

In consequence of constant lack of sleep and fatigue one morning we can see under their eyes them - disgusting dark circles. And there seems to be nothing terrible, but with time, premature wrinkles may appear on this place. Mix a little ground coffee and coconut oil, apply this mask 3 times a week and the circles will disappear.

 4 Get Rid of Cellulite

Many women are injured to such unpleasant cosmetic defect as cellulite. In fact, his appearance is not always caused by wrong nutrition. Very often it can be inherited. Mix a little clay, ground ginger and warm water until a paste is formed. Apply to problem areas and wrap with plastic wrap.

5 Smooth Legs

The problem of unwanted hair persists every woman not only in the beach season, but also in the rest of the time. Despite the amazing results that the shaving gives, hair grows very quickly. To avoid ingrown hairs and irritation, use sugaring. To do this, prepare caramel from lemon juice, sugar and water.

 6 Strengthener for nails

Some women find it extremely difficult to grow long nails due to the fact that they constantly break down. This problem can be easily solved by mixing coconut oil, honey and a bit of lavender oil. Apply this mixture on your nails and they will soon become long and healthy.

7 Blackheads

Very often, improper skin care and increased work of the sebaceous glands can lead to the appearance of blackheads. In order to effectively get rid of them you need to mix flour, honey and warm water. Apply to the cotton pad and attach to the problem area. After 10 minutes, take it away.

8 Dark Armpits

Harmful bacteria, constant moisture, aggressive deodorants and pollution lead to deterioration of the skin of the armpits and the appearance of dark spots. Use masks from grated potatoes to lighten the skin.

 9 Sunburn

Very often in the summer, we expose our skin to danger without using sunscreen. This can lead to extremely painful burns. Soda will help relieve pain and redness.

 

10 Hardened skin of heels

Sometimes, due to a long walk, the skin on the heels can become rough. In order for your heels to be gentle and silky again, add apple cider vinegar and baking soda to warm water. Take this bath for 15 minutes.

 

11 Pure skin of the face

Recently, the black mask for the face has become very popular among beauty bloggers. This famous product can be made at home. Just mix gelatin and grounded activated charcoal with water. Preheat and apply on face for half an hour. Then remove it from the skin.

12 Teeth Whitening

Instead of whitening toothpastes that can cause excessive sensitivity, use this recipe. Mix baking soda and mashed strawberry. Brush your teeth with this mixture.

13 Fresh face skin

Even if you looked great in the morning, by the end of the day the skin on your face will begin to show signs of fatigue. For the face remained fresh longer, mix the aloe gel with water and use as a spray for the face.

14 Pleasant smell of hair

During the day, our hair not only absorbs unpleasant odors from the environment, but it can also unpleasantly smell because of sweat. In order for it to smell better, spray your favorite perfume on the comb and brush your hair.

15 Breast Lift

With age, the skin begins to lose collagen and your breast begins to sag. To prevent this, apply Vaseline every night and it will return your skin elasticity.

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The Three Keys to Happiness and How to Attain Them

Countless life gurus and public speakers instruct and assure their audiences that the key to happiness lies in whatever they are about to recommend: a diet, a new gadget, or a trip to an exotic location. This prompted me to ask myself: What is the key to happiness? What makes humans happy? And finally, what does science have to say about happiness?

 

As a scientific field that has everything to do with our emotions and longings, psychology should have the key to happiness. In fact, psychologists today believe that there might be more than one key to happiness, namely three, to be precise. There is a whole field of psychology called positive psychology that deals with the study of happiness.

Researchers at Penn State University argue that there are 3 aspects to human happiness: pleasure, engagement, and meaning. In every activity that we do, one or a few of these aspects come into play. When present, these 3 aspects of happiness will significantly enhance your life, but when absent, they can make you feel lazy, depressed and powerless.

If you want to become a much happier person by doing a few simple exercises that we share with you in this article or seek to expand your knowledge about happiness, just continue reading.

1. Pleasure

What Is Pleasure?

Pleasure is connected to positive emotions like joy, fun, satisfaction, pride, and excitement. These emotions feel great, but they are also scientifically proven to have marked positive health consequences and will improve your social relationships.

An example of a pleasurable activity is a fun night out with friends, an inspiring walk on a beach, a romantic date with your significant other, an interesting movie, a delicious meal, or anything else that makes you feel good.

How to Maximize a Pleasant Activity?

Don’t forget that humans are social beings. Both experimental findings and, maybe, your intuition as well support the idea that engaging in a pleasant activity, like a hobby, with others is more pleasant than engaging in the same activity alone.

Exercises that Will Boost Pleasure

If you find it difficult to relax and experience pleasure, you can try the following exercises. All of these are very customizable. You can choose the format, time and frequency of these exercises. The goal is to target and promote the activities that make you savor life much more.

1. Three Pleasant Things

Remember 3 things you did today that were fun, amusing, exciting, or pleasant. Write them down and explain how they made you feel. After a week, try looking back at your list and try to gauge what makes you feel happier and makes your life more pleasant and fun, you might be surprised!

2. Plan a beautiful day

Imagine/write down all the activities you’d like to do on a perfect day. Note, they have to be realistic. If you’d like to lay in bed all day that’s fine too, but try to be specific. Would you watch your favorite movie, read a great book, or do something entirely different? Now make that day happen, and then reflect: did that day feel as great as you imagined it would be? If not, why not? Repeat in some time.

3. Just set aside some time for the things you enjoy doing, such as hobbies and sports. Research proves that it is very important to be consistent to see a significant improvement. If you don’t hate writing, you can also write down how you feel before and after the fun activity and check your progress every month. This will not only motivate you to continue but will also boost your positive emotions.

2. Engagement

What Is Engagement?

By engagement or flow, psychology researchers mean a person’s ability to zone into whatever they are doing. You know that feeling when you’re so engaged with your task that you forget about everything that is going on around you? That is flow.

After finishing the task, that person will feel accomplished and delighted. Several studies report that a state of flow also increases the quality of performance and aids learning. Examples of flow include musicians improvising, a teacher explaining the study material with zest and vigor, a parent teaching his or her child to say a new word, etc.

As with pleasurable activities, engaging activities can, but don’t have to be work-related, one can experience flow during a sports activity, a hobby, or anything that challenges you, but isn’t too overwhelming.

The Exercise that Increases Engagement

To really increase flow, the best thing you can do is Mindfulness Meditation.

Mindfulness meditation is proven to reduce stress and increase focus, memory, relationship satisfaction and flexibility of thought. All you have to do is to pay attention to your feelings, thoughts, experiences, and sensations without the goal of changing or judging them. You are in the moment, focused on our present experiences, no matter how good or bad they might be.

The Body Scan is one of the shortest and most common types of mindfulness meditation. Those of you who were in a yoga class will be familiar with it. You can try doing a simple body scan by following the video guide at the end of the article.

3. Meaning

What Is Meaning?

All of us search for a sense of meaning in life, we need to explain to ourselves why we have the goals we have and why some things are more important to us than others. It turns out that this sense of purpose or belonging that psychologists call “meaning” is the top-ranked predictor of a person’s life satisfaction.

When we find meaning in an idea or goal, we feel so empowered that we are often ready to endure all the challenges, difficulties, and negative emotions that life throws at us. A person will find meaning in whatever resonates deeply with them, be it a role in a family, a social group, a religion, an organization or a tradition.

Exercises that Promote Meaning

Try at least 1 of these meaning exercises:
 
1. 3 Meaningful Things
This exercise is similar to the one we shared in the first exercise section. Your task is to remember/write down 3 things every day that were meaningful or significant to you. Describe your experience and try to understand how you felt. Repeat for a week and then look back, did anything change? If so, think why.

2. Do Something Altruistic vs Do Something Fun
This exercise is great for those of you who aren’t sure if they’re lacking meaning or pleasure in life. Plan 2 activities: one should be fun, let’s say an evening out at a fancy restaurant, and the other should be generous or meaningful, like helping a family member with some tedious chore.
After doing both, compare how each made you feel.
Which one made you feel better and the effects of which lasted longer? The activity that made you feel more accomplished and lasted longer is the one that is more important to you, no matter which one it ends up being.

3. Best Possible Self
This exercise was designed to promote meaning and optimism. You'll have to contemplate your best future in all areas of your life (e.g. romantic life, occupation, well-being, etc.).
Imagine in as much detail as you can your most important goals and picture how your life will improve once you’ve accomplished them. Think about this exercise as a realization of your potential and your dreams. After a week of doing this, you will feel much happier and more motivated.

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A simple technique to deal with your emotions and moods

See this whole world as bubbles rising in water. See people as bubbles on the surface of the Brahman(Infinite Consciousness).You know how water bubbles up? Like that, everybody is rising, playing their own games and dissolving back into the Infinite. It is the same in your own life. Your mind is a bubble on the surface of the Brahman, Infinity.

See how many changes happen in your mind during the course of the day. How many changes are happening in you? Just sit, and think about one person for a whole day. You will see all types of emotion come and go. Anger, frustration, dejection, doubt, etc.  You like them and dislike them and you feel all this is nothing, and would like to run away. All these bubbles rise and fall in your mind. Your mind is such a wave of bubble in the Self.

Look at your moods! They are bubbles on the surface of your mind. It’s no secret that a mood remains not more than two-and-a-quarter days, pleasant or unpleasant. Many times when people meet their very dear ones, whom they love very much, they are in a joyous mood. And then they find themselves changing within the two and a quarter days! Their mind is changing. They don’t understand what is happening! The mind is also like that. It doesn’t stay firm.  The joke here is, you cannot hold onto pleasant moments; they come and go. But unpleasant things come, and you cling on to them. This is an age old habit of hanging on to unpleasant memories more than pleasant memories.

With skill, you can see all is Love, all is Divinity. When you see someone getting angry or frustrated, you can either see the love behind their anger and frustration, or only see their outer projection. Why does someone get angry? Because they loved something, and it didn’t happen. Why does someone get frustrated?

 Because they loved something very much and they did not get it. Why does someone do service? There is love behind that service. Why does someone sing? Because they experience a wonderful feeling of love. There is love behind every action and every emotion, positive or negative. That’s why I say love is not an emotion. I say it is your existence. It is something from which your life is made up of. So you can never lose it, but you need some skill to know it, experience it, and make it blossom in life.

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Music triggers powerful physical reactions in pregnant women

Researchers have discovered that pregnant women compared to their non-pregnant counterparts rate music as more intensely pleasant and unpleasant, associated with greater changes in blood pressure.
Music appears to have an especially strong influence on pregnant women, a fact that may relate to a prenatal conditioning of the fetus to music.

For their study, the Max Planck researchers played short musical sequences of 10 or 30 seconds' duration to female volunteers. They changed the passages and played them backwards or incorporated dissonances. By doing so, they distorted the originally lively instrumental pieces and made listening to them less pleasant.


The pregnant women rated the pieces of music slightly differently, they perceived the pleasant music as more pleasant and the unpleasant as more unpleasant.

The blood pressure response to music was much stronger in the pregnant group. Forward-dissonant music produced a particularly pronounced fall in blood pressure, whereas backwards-dissonant music led to a higher blood pressure after 10 seconds and a lower one after 30 seconds.

"Thus, unpleasant music does not cause an across-the-board increase in blood pressure, unlike some other stress factors", says Tom Fritz of the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig. "Instead, the body's response is just as dynamic as the music itself."

According to the results, music is a very special stimulus for pregnant women, to which they react strongly. "Every acoustic manipulation of music affects blood pressure in pregnant women far more intensely than in non- pregnant women ", says Fritz.

The researchers suspect that foetuses are conditioned to music perception while still in the womb by the observed intense physiological music responses of the mothers.

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