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Genetic Variations Leads to Fever After Smallpox Vaccination

...studys lead author, Samuel Stanley Jr., M.D., vice chancellor of research at Washington University and a professor of medicine and microbiology. Routine smallpox vaccinations in the United States were halted in 1972, when the disease was considered eradicated in this country, but the U.S. military and other h...

Expand HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs, Experts Stress

...100% effective," said Salim Abdool Karim, pro-vice chancellor for research at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, and a member of the Working Group. "We need to use all proven prevention strategies in combination."...

Students Join Hands to Save Green Cover in Delhi

...versity (DU) have forwarded a petition to the vice chancellor Deepak Pental objecting to the plan to cut 1,000 t... the importance of green cover and pleads the vice chancellor to stop this move. Asserting that nowhere else in north Delhi is such a diversity of species of tr...

University of Arkansas to Ban Tobacco from Its Campus

...th issue, said Mary Alice Serafini, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs and director of the Pat Walker Health Center. Tobacco is harmful to anyone who uses it, and even non-users are harmed by second-hand smoke. We see a tobacco-free campus as a health benefit for the entire campus community. In 200...

Google to Digitise 800,000 Books at Mysore Varsity

...on of knowledge," said J. Shashidhara Prasad, vice chancellor of the university. "Many manuscripts on ayurveda...gle is interested to do the job for free, the vice chancellor said the company would get free link for these materials once the necessary patent right is done. ...

Indian President Urges Doctors to Help Rural Patients

...omobile manufacturing in the country. University chancellor and Haryana Governor A.R. Kidwai conferred honorary degree of doctor of laws to Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan, Union Law Minister H.R. Bhardwaj and veteran freedom fighter Ranbir Singh Hooda. Hooda, the father of Chief Minister Bhupinder...

US Professor Helping India Deal With Global Warming

...stem// for India. Robert Twilley, associate vice chancellor of research and economic development at Louisiana State University, recently joined an international science team tasked with helping India, one of the countries facing the most dramatic consequences of world climate change. The team led by Twilley...

Saudi Arabia to Set Up Hospital in Jamia University Campus

... understanding (MoU) was signed between Jamia vice chancellor Mushirul Hasan and the Saudi embassy authorities at the university here. Spread over three floors, the state-of-the-art facility will have multi-specialty treatment rooms, rehabilitation center, x-ray rooms, emergency first aid, pharmacy and dinin...

African-American Mothers More Likely to Deliver Prematurely

...ates,' said F. Sessions Cole, M.D., assistant vice chancellor for children's health at the School of Medicine and director of the Division of Pediatric Newborn Medicine and chief medical officer at St. Louis Children's Hospital. Source-Eurekalert SRI...

Social Care for Elders to Be Limited

... situation does not deteriorate. My message to the chancellor is: please give as much attention to the state of care for older people as you are giving to keeping children out of poverty.” The proportion of people who are over 65 is growing - over the next 20 years projections indicate it will rise by 53%. The...

India Finds New Use for an Old Bug

... be available in about a month," Hasnain, now vice chancellor of the University of Hyderabad, told IANS. "Our data already suggests there may be surprises to the scientific community. I cannot say more until we publish the work." Other labs participating in sequencing Mw are those of Akilesh Tyagi and Anil Ty...

Misled Public Stay Away from Polio Immunisation Drive

...rippling disease. Aligarh Muslim University vice chancellor Naseem Ahmed, who had been roped in by the Rotary Club to persuade religious leaders and the community to get all Muslim children vaccinated against polio, had said that "illiteracy and ignorance have been holding people back, but once they know the ...

University to Campaign Against Female Foeticide in Punjab

...chnology (SVIET) at Banur, 25 km from here. Vice chancellor S.K. Salwan will launch the campaign, a university spokesman said. Concerned over the ever widening male and female ratio and the menace of drug addiction among the youth in Punjab, the Jalandhar-based PTU decided to take up the cause of creating a...

President Launches Madras University's 150th Year Celebrations

...were Tamil Nadu Governor S.S. Barnala, who is also chancellor of the university, outgoing vice-chancellor S.P. Thyagarajan and S. Ramachandran, the next vice-chancellor. Source-IANS...

Students to Evaluate the Performance of Teachers

.../ According to a notification issued by the vice chancellor earlier this year, the academic reform committee o...ng demand of the students. Only this year the vice chancellor and other members of the committee agreed to include it,' said Nayak, who is also a member of the re...

Angelina Jolie Opts To Back For Global Education For Poor Children

...id Jolie in a separate teleconference with British chancellor Gordon Brown. The comments came despite the Pitt-Jolie family's attempts to remain out of the spotlight in Namibia. Numerous paparazzi tried to follow them to Namibia, where the government has been requiring foreign reporters to provide written pro...

UCI Closed Its Liver Transplant Program

... or marginal. Dr. Kenneth Shine, executive vice chancellor of health affairs for the University of Texas system and a panel member said that due to the lack of transparency legitimate complaints of people were not addressed in an appropriate way. The closure of the liver transplant program was due to the ...

Momentum of Stem cell research impeded by legal challenges

... Robert Birgeneau, an institute board member and chancellor of University of California Berkeley, said his campus could significantly expand research programs if the initial funds were released by the government. Stem cell research is a controversial topic to discuss because it involves the destruction of m...

James Cook University urges more medical seats

...r Quentin Bryce and Government officials. The Vice chancellor Mr. Moulden feels this is right time for the federal Government to approve the increase in number of medical students in James Cook University without any political hindrance, as it will help to produce more expertise students in the medical professi...

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