Our Metabolism and Our Bath System

Feeding Our Immune System: Impact on Metabolism

Endogenous intestinal microflora and environmental factors, such as diet, play a central role in immune homeostasis and reactivity. In addition, microflora and diet both influence body weight and insulin-resistance, notably through an action on adipose cells. Moreover, it is known since a long time that any disturbance in metabolism, like obesity, is associated with immune alteration, for examp...

Our academy, our mission, our work!

This publication finds me at the half-way point of my tenure as president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. It is therefore timely to review our academy’s goals and progress, reflecting upon and inspecting our work together as a committed and talented group of management team members and volunteer leaders. To share highlights of the year-to-date, I have created a “virtual interview,” po...

Improving Our Bodies, Our Meals, and Our Gadgets

Our Problems: Our Solutions

Discussion on the unique characteristics of psychiatry in a non-Western country like India, often tend to be limited to culture-bound syndrome like Koro, possession state etc. It is, no doubt, important for us to be able to recognize these problems and render effective treatment to individuals suffering from them. It is also interesting to speculate on the cultural factors which contribute to t...

Our adolescents--our future.