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Village Health Centres to the Rescue of Infants

...ew days, the child eventually died. "Ignorance and blind faith took the child away from us," rues Suryamani. The child was about seven months old. Things, however, looked up when Padmavati got pregnant again. By then, she was part of a new awakening process in Mayurbhanj, aimed at tackling infant deaths...

Sea Massage for French Wines

... swirled, sniffed and savoured their way through a blind tasting of three whites and three reds. Two of the reds and two of the whites were brought up from the depths this month and compared with bottles of the same wine stored on dry land. The difference, the tasters said, was clear."The underwater whites...

Now the Blind can ‘hear’ What They Can’t See or Rad

...s here have developed a device that can enable the blind to hear what they cannot see or read//. Called 'E-Netra', it costs Rs.2,000-3,000 and it reads texts through an embedded system and converts them into voice that can be heard through earphones. Right now it can only read text, but later it is lik...

Eyes Wide Shut-To The Dangers Of Kajal

According to New York City officials, many are blind to the perils of imported eye cosmetics//. The officials are warning the public about the use of such eye makeup products known as kajal, kohl and surma which are imported from Asia, Middle East and North Africa. These products used traditionally by...

Software System to Improve the Function of Retinal Implants

...om the optic nerve. In adults, however, who become blind later in life, the central visual system is alread...not be expected in the near future. However, for a blind subject this represents a major improvement. He will be able to orient himself again in his environm...

MRI Robotic Biopsies Simplified by PneuStep

...rgans such as the prostate are currently performed blind because the tumors are typically invisible to the imaging tools commonly used," says Dan Stoianovici, Ph.D., an associate professor of urology at Johns Hopkins and director of the robotics lab. "Our new MRI-safe motor and robot can target the tumors....

Unique Models Help Teach Nanoscience to the Blind

...xperiments offer such great opportunities to teach blind and visually impaired students about science and p...for Chemical Education. "The fact is, we're all blind at the nanoscale," he says. "So the message to blind students is, 'This is something you can do, thi...

MRI-safe Motor Makes Robotic Biopsies Possible

...rgans such as the prostate are currently performed blind because the tumors are typically invisible to the imaging tools commonly used," says Dan Stoianovici, Ph.D., an associate professor of urology at Johns Hopkins and director of the robotics lab. "Our new MRI-safe motor and robot can target the tumors....

Two-in-one Diabetic Drug Approved by FDA

...ta presented at the ADA included a 24-week, double blind study of patients who had inadequate glycemic control with metformin (at least 1,500 mg daily). In this study, sitagliptin phosphate 100 mg once daily added to patients inadequately controlled on metformin ,led to a significant reduction in sugar ...

MPs Vow to Fight Malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh

... that even if the children were saved, they may go blind due to lack of vitamin A," claims Sachin Kumar Jain, an activist fighting alleged negligence in government departments. "In the last two years, malnutrition - an indicator of human underdevelopment - has been on the rise in Madhya Pradesh. Accordin...

Vitamin A Deficiency Leads to Large-scale Blindness in North East

....6 per cent of the children in the schools for the blind in that region have become blind over a period of time only because of vitamin-related problems. Effective primary eye care intervent...

Health Minister Concerned About the Suicide Rates in India

...), the only mental hospital of Delhi. Desai said blind believes and stigma are still restricting people from coming out to avail themselves of medical treatment. Further, the mental health infrastructure in the country is not very good. "We have 37 mental hospitals, of which three including IHBAS have ...

India to Beat Blindness Elimination Target by 2015: Health Minister

...i Ramadoss has said that India, home to 12 million blind people, will achieve its blindness elimination// t...doss told IANS in an interview. A survey put the blind in India at 12 million, out of which 62.6 percent of sightlessness is due to cataract. During 2005, ...

Computer Tool Helps Pinpoint Risky Gene Mutations

...tic glitch that could set the stage for cancer? In blind biochemical tests involving 36 samples containing ...successful at finding harmful mutations during the blind tests in Monteiro’s lab. She believes it has a promising future. “Genetic counselors now base some o...

Bionic Eye may Restore Sight to the Blind

...d-renowned singer and composer is just one of many blind people around the world //who would like to hear m...rve. With the previous electronic implant, six blind patients had their sight partially restored. The device proved so successful that its developers le...

RNIB Receives ￡25,000 to Help Blin

RNIB has been granted ￡25,000 for helping blind and partially sighted people in the Lothians to return to work. The Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) received a ￡25,000 donation// from banking giant Barclays and the grant will help in launching the charity's Positive Steps programme, ...

A New Therapy for CFS

...o conduct a randomized, placebo-controlled, double blind study set to begin this quarter at Stanford. The study will assess the effectiveness of the drug in treating a subset of CFS patients. Montoya is speaking about his efforts at the biannual meeting of the International Association for Chronic Fatigu...

Latest Research on Visual Skills is an Eye Opener

...ms to study, identify and, treat, children who are blind from birth, in India. The case of a lady born blind was studied by the professor, appears in the journal Psychological Science in the December 2006 issu...

Glaucoma: Silently Stealing Sight from Millions

As you read this sentence, you could be going blind and not know it. Silently, without symptoms, Glaucoma could be stealing your sight, and there is no cure//. January is Glaucoma Awareness Month, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology and its partner the American Glaucoma Society strongly urges e...

'Hooded Horror': Death by Hanging

...d a tooth for a tooth, and the whole world will be blind and tooth less'. RJA IMAGE Source-Pisanello; de: Fresken in Sant' Anastasia in Verona, Szene: Hl. Georg und die Prinzesin...

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