IIT in Medical News

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 ...

OnCore(r) 9.0 Released: 'Top 5' Priorities and Collaborative Initiatives Cornerstones of Product Development

...chmarks--aggregating anonymized data from OnCore centers and allowing individual centers to compare their performance to aggregated averages. 3. iit Search--allowing people to locate investigator initiated trials conducted at participating OnCore centers. For information about the OnCore resear...

ConvaTec Names Paul Moraviec President, Continence and Critical Care Business Unit and ConvaTec EMEA Region

...he performance of the business to sales of $700M and a strong growth and profitability profile. In addition, Moraviec has held the positions of CEO of iit Ltd, a UK medical device start-up company and Vice President, International Sales and Marketing for Codman, a Johnson & Johnson medical devices an...

McCormick Foundation Invests $5 Million in Chicago Initiatives Addressing Civic Health and Education

...nt over two years for the McCormick Scholarship Fund to support low-income students from Illinois. The grant will provide 20, $10,000 scholarships for iit students affected by the current difficult economic conditions. The McCormick Foundation has been a long-time partner of IIT, and has invested more th...

Indo-American Develops Model Linking Human Activity to Climate Change

...00-year event -- and therefore can be used to predict change more confidently, said Dr. Ganguly, a B. Tech in Civil and Environmental Engineering from iit Kharagpur. If, however, our method says the events at the two locations are completely dependent, then the simultaneous occurrence remains a 1...

New Medical College to be set up in Bangalore

...t.' He said, ‘The petition is on August 28, depending on this, action will be taken.’ The CM also mentioned proposals for the setting up of an iit in the city. ...

IIT Kanpur Students, Medicos Protest Against Ramadoss

...s took out a procession from the medical college premises to Moti Jheel area raising slogans against Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss. The iit Kanpur students are already agitating against the reservation policy of the Centre and the medicos of GSVMC have threatened to intensify their agitati...

Medicos Divided on Calling Off Anti-Quota Agitation

...issue. The medicos are also mulling over the idea of handing over the anti-reservation agitation to students of other streams like engineers from iit to escape contempt proceedings from the court. The students are opposing a government proposal to introduce 27 per cent reservation to OBCs in el...

Quota System: Diverting Attention From The Real Problem

...day is their ability to attract good students. If that is diluted under the pressure of quota system, IITs are likely to lose their shine. Those iit alumni who were thinking of donating funds may think twice now. Is this the beginning of the end for IITs as has happened for some outstanding educati...

Quota Row: Student Attempts Immolation

...st rally against the quota for OBCs in higher institutions. // The student had 15 percent burns and was admitted at the LNJP hospital. Meanwhile iit students in Delhi and Kanpur are to go at a hunger strike on Sunday. JNU students are to join them. Meanwhile the Union Health Ministry has issued ord...

Medicos Continue Agitation, Plan Massive Rally On May 27

...said they were warming up for a massive protest rally on May 27 which will see the participation of over 5000 students from all medical colleges, IIM, iit and many premier institutions of West Bengal. Groups of students holding placards sat in protest demonstrations at the Calcutta Medical College,...

Despite Collapse Of The Medicos Strike To Continue Unabated

...he brunt." Meanwhile, students from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and IIT-Delhi have joined the ant-reservation protest at AIIMS. While some iit students have joined the hunger strike, around 60 JNU students marched in a rally at the AIIMS campus denouncing the reservation move by Human Resourc...

Merciless Lathi Charge of our Meritorious Medicos

...ations for OBC in professional course be it medical colleges, IITs or IIMs. // The protests are gaining momentum and now besides the medicos the iit students also have decided to join the agitation. What the government and the administration has to remember is that; we are dealing with a highly mer...

Shapelier Knee Replacements for Women

... Orthopedic surgeons at Rush University have developed the first knee replacement shaped to fit a woman's anatomy. iit has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and will be distributed to orthopedic surgeons to use next week. // Dr. Aaron G. ...

Hi-tech Walking Stick Developed For Visually Impaired

...gy has been developed by students of the computer science department of the iit in consultation with the National Association for the Blind (NAB). Smart ca... take one year to make it ready for the market," said Paul. He praised iit for its financial and technological support and NAB for constant feedback a...

Bharat Rao Is 'Inventor of the Year'

...Data (REMIND), which is an automated analysis and data collection tool. Patient care plans can now be personalized as a result of this tool. Rao is an iit graduate from Chennai. REMIND contributes towards integrating medical information, patient data and current treatment guidelines. Clinicians wi...