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Handling plantar fasciitis

According to a recent survey, it has been observed that there are some simple self-help measures for dealing with plantar fasciitis. Plantar fasciitis is an inflammation of the band of fibrous tissue on the sole of the feet which connects the toes and the heel.// It causes excruciating pain first thing in the morning, when you take a few steps, but it eases off once you have been on the move for...

IIT Delhi To Display Its Technological Innovations In 'Open House'

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi will showcase over 200 innovations ranging from an easy Braille reading device to a leaves collector in its annual //technological festival "Open House I2Tech" Saturday. .."IIT Delhi is just not an engineering college providing degrees to students. It's a centre of research and subsequent technological innovations as well," said Kushal Sen, the coord...

Joint Research by IIT-K and GSVM

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-K) and the Ganesh Shanker Vidyarthi Memorial (GSVM) Medical College have entered into an agreement to carry out joint research // in bringing medical knowledge and technology that would be of wider interest to all sections of society. ..The two institutes have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this regard on Wednesday for increased collaboratio...

Medical Faculty On Leave; JNU, IIT Students Join Hunger Strike

After rejecting the Government proposal, medicos today stepped up their anti-reservation stir with faculty members of three premier hospitals going on mass casual leave // and the medical fraternity gearing up for a total shutdown on Wednesday. ....The striking medicos got a boost as students of the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi beg...

IIT Kanpur Students, Medicos Protest Against Ramadoss

Students of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and Ganesh Shanker Vidyarathi Medical College today took out a candlelight procession protesting the //dismissal of P Venugopal as Director of the premier All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. ....Carrying placards and posters that said Venugopal was being made a "scapegoat", the students took out a procession from the medical coll...

Health Pavilion at IITF Inaugurated

New Delhi: The Health and Family Welfare pavilion at the India International Trade Fair 2006 was inaugurated by Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss//, Minister for Health and Family Welfare, here today. ....Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said the ambience to the exhibition approximately reflects the rural necessities, as their focus in the National Rural Health Mission launched last year. Though subst...

Overuse of Popular Console can Cause 'Wiiitis' in Gamers

Nintendo's innovative game machine has spawned rave reviews and monster sales by allowing players to use natural motions rather than tiny thumb movements to control the action in video games. ......But the hit gaming system may also have a downside - a newly diagnosed ailment called Wiiitis (pronounced Wee-i-tis), according to a report published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine....

Top Iraqi Shiite Leader Returns Home

Powerful Shiite politician Abdel Aziz al-Hakim returned to Iraq's holy city of Najaf on Friday after receiving treatment for cancer in Tehran. ......Hakim, the head of one of the most powerful parties in the parliament, spent nearly two weeks abroad in a trip that included medical tests in the United States and treatment in Iran. ......"He is in his headquarters in Najaf and will be there for a...

Ex-IITian-designed Alzheimer's Drug's Human Clinical Trials Begin

Purdue University researchers have begun the first phase of human clinical trials to test the efficacy of an Alzheimer's drug designed in-house. ......The drug is based on an inhibitor developed by a team of researchers at the university. The researchers say that it may help intercept and disable the disease at an early stage. ......"Millions of people suffer from this devastating disease and...

IIT Delhi Scientist Finds Climate Models Consistent With Ocean Warming Observations

Climate models represent variability in ocean heat content on interannual-to-decadal time scales much more realistically than previously believed , a study by an Indian scientist has revealed. ......Krishna Achuta Rao, previously at Livermore's Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI), and now at IIT, Delhi, used 13 numerical climate models to find the apparent discrepanci...

IIT-Kharagpur the Leading Technology College in India: Survey

New Delhi, The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, in West Bengal is the top technology and engineering college of the country, edging out IIT-Madras which held the position last year, a survey said Tuesday. ......According to the survey by Data Quest, a technology magazine in India, and International Data Corporation (IDC), a US-headquartered research firm, the seven IITs have bag...