A collective to promote Ayurveda is being organised at the Moosakutty Memorial Town Hall, Perinthalmanna, on Friday.

A team of foreign students and professionals of Indian origin visited Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala on Friday. The visit was part of the Know India Programme organised by the Union Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs to help the Indian diaspora familiarise with their ancestral roots.

Minister for Health P.K. Sreemathy said here on Friday that all district, taluk-level and smaller ayurveda and homoeopathy hospitals where in-patient services are available would be upgraded with modern facilities within 10 months.

The modern lifestyle and food habits are giving rise to a number of ophthalmic problems.Diabetes related blindness (retinopathy), night-blindness and problems of sight in children have increased enormously.

A seminar on autism will be the highlight of the golden jubilee of the Thiruvananthapuram branch of the Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala to be held here on Sunday. Addressing a press conference here on Friday,

M.S. Valiathan, national research professor from Manipal University, has called upon the Ayurvedic researchers to strive to get their papers published in international science and research magazines of high repute.

Manufacturers of ayurvedic medicine have formed a federation to address issues in the sector.

HLL Lifecare Limited, a Central government enterprise formerly known as Hindustan Latex Limited, launched on Wednesday an Ayurvedic health supplement Chyavanules, granule forms of the traditional Chyavanaprash.

The first Ayurved Gaurav Award of the Pathanjali Yogapeeth, Haridwar, was presented to P. Pushpangadan, director-general, Amity Institute for Herbal Biotech Products Development, by Uttarakhand