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Kasturba Medical College Organizes 'CME- Orth 2005' From 4th To 6th November

A Continuing Medical Education Programme 'CME- Orth 2005' is being organized by the Orthopedics department of Kasturba Hospital, Manipal from November 4 to 6. The programme includes course lectures,// clinical case discussions and demonstration of orthosis, prosthesis and radiological techniques. The programme was inaugurated by Dr. R S P Rao, Dean of Kasturba Medical College. Dr D...

Poultry Farmers Organize Chicken Party

Poultry farmers of Gujarat in India are in bad financial shape following the bird flu scare in the region. To build confidence of the public the poultry farmers organized a "chicken party" here to boost up the sales of poultry// products."We organized the party to remove the fright from people's minds regarding bird flu," said Ramesh Patel, secretary of the Gujarat Broiler Farmers' Association....

NHS To Reorganize Ambulance Services

Faced with a severe cash crunch, the NHS has decided to go ahead with implementing some reforms in order to trim its services.// The first step being the merger of the three ambulance services in Yorkshire into one single organization. The idea in integrating the services is that it will save millions of pounds, which seems to be the prime requirement at the moment. Although this mean...

JIPMER Students Organize Human Chain

Students of the prestigious Jawaharlal Institute of Post-graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) here organized a ‘human chain agitation’// to protest the move to reserve seats for OBC students in elite Central institutions. Students of the Central government-administered JIPMER yesterday took out a rally inside the Institute's premises before organizing the human chain....

West Virginia Organizes a Program to Fight Obesity

UniCare Health Plan of West Virginia announced that it is teaming up with Weight Watchers for a 16-week program aiming at weight loss courses to help// fight obesity in more than 75000 people in the Mountain state. The UniCare's Medicaid beneficiaries in West Virginia are eligible to take up this 16-week course from Weight Watchers, famous for its regular meetings and system of assignin...

Scientists Devise a Novel Way to Organize Stem Cells

Washington: U.S researchers have hit upon a good device to utilize original stem cells with the help// of an "inkjet"-style printer. A group of bioengineers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute and stem cell researchers from the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine have put together a method to organize the growth of stem cells into tissues. Julie Jadlowiec Phill...

How Ion Channels are Organized to Control Nerve Cell Communication?

The messages passed in a neuronal network can target something like 100 billion nerve cells in the brain alone. //These, in turn communicate with millions of other cells and organs in the body. How, then, do whole cascades of events trigger responses that are highly specific, quick and precisely timed? A team at the Weizmann Institute of Science has now shed light on this mysterious...

Climate Change Reorganized Tibetan Culture 700 Years Ago: Study

Changes in weather 700 years ago might have forced Tibetans to reorganize their society, an anthropologist has claimed. Mark Aldenderfer of the University of Arizona, who is leading a research project in far western Tibet, is quoted by national Geographic as saying in preliminary findings that an abrupt shift in the Asian monsoon caused famine, population movements and political r...