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Cryopreservation of Ovaries for Cancer patients undergoing treatment

Researchers from Israel has found a new method of Cryopreservation of ovaries for few years and then reimplanting them into the same women. The procedure would be very useful for women with cancer, because during cancer // hormonal treatment, the chances of women getting infertile is very high. This method involves removing the ovaries then freezing them till required, when the treatment...

Aloe Vera Coating For Fruits And Vegetables Preservation

Gel form of Aloe vera extract is known for its therapeutic effect on burned or irritated skin. Looks like there is more to it than just cosmetology applications. The gel could be taken as a healthful additive to fruits and // vegetables in the future. A new form has been recently developed by researchers that can be used as an edible coating to prolong the quality and safety of fresh...

Doctors In UK Have Reservations About NHS Plan

The plan to scale down the number of hospital admissions which are unnecessary is at risk, as the general practitioners refuse to operate their own budgets// . The proposals of the Government will be unveiled towards end January 2006 which will enable better access to sexual health clinics. This plan depends to a very great extent upon doctors to commission the new services. Most of the d...

Cryopreservation of embryo eggs

Cryopreservation of embryo eggs is now offered by Yale Fertility Center. Professor Pasquale Patrizio, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences is collaborating with an oocyte Cryopreservation expert from Italy. // The new embryo freezing technique would help in preserving the eggs of the women at a time when she is sexually active but not interested to have babies...

Another Twist to the Tale of Reservation of Medical Seats

The tale of the controversial reservation of postgraduate medical seats to in-service candidates has developed another twist//. On Tuesday the Government announced that these candidates would have to serve the government for a minimum specified period upon completion of the PG degree failing which they would haver to pay a default fine of Rs 20 lakhs. The government’s decision to furthe...

Medical Students Protest Proposed Tabling of Reservation Bill

Students of B J Medical College today organised a public gathering here under the banner of 'Youth For Equality' to protest against the tabling of the reservation bill in the monsoon session of Parliament beginning tomorrow.// The protest was part of a nationwide programme, Youth For Equality said in a release adding that protest gatherings were held in 18 states. "The mess...

Nationwide Strike on May 2nd by Medicos on Reservation Issue

The medical students of the country are expected to organize a nationwide peaceful demonstration against the reservation quota in professional colleges//. The stir is against a government proposal to hike reservation seats started on the 27th April. The mere assurance of that the matter will be considered by after the assembly poll in five states was not enough for the students. <...

Reservation boycott by Medical student fraternity continues in Bangalore

The demon of reservation has once again spread its venomous heads and is engulfing the student community. It is to the medical students’ displeasure. // As there strong opposition undergraduate students of the Bangalore Medical College staged a dharna in the Victoria Hospital campus. They were protesting against the Centre's proposal for reservation of seats for OBCs in elite educational...

Supreme Court Quashed Reservation Quotas For PG Medical Courses

In a relief to the anti-quota camp, the Supreme Court Friday reversed an earlier order directing the government to reserve 10 percent seats on an all-India basis// for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes candidates in post-graduate medical courses for the 2006-07 academic year. A bench of judges K.G. Balakrishnan, A.R. Lakshmanan and D.K. Jain accepted the submissions of Additional S...

Students Divided over OBC Reservation

Medical students in north Bihar's Muzaffarpur and Darbhanga towns staged widespread demonstrations with sit-ins, burning of effigies and road blocks both in support // as well as in opposition over the proposed reservation for OBCs in premier technical institutions of the country. Students of Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) in Muzaffarpur burnt the effigy of Union HRD m...

Medicos Of The Calcutta Medical College Join Anti-Reservation Quota Protest

Medicos of the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital expressed their support to anti-reservation protests by blocking a national highway// in the northern region of the State. West Bengal is therefore visualizing an intensification of the anti-reservation protest. Barring the emergency department, services in the Calcutta Medical College came to a halt Wednesday as junior doctors and i...

Arjun Singh Softens Stand on Quota But says Reservation Irrevocable

New Delhi: Human Resource Minister Arjun Singh said that the government will try to do a balancing act however the proposed quota remains irrevocable.// Arjun Singh said in the parliament "There is no question of going back on what we have proposed. What we can try to do is make efforts to not to create any more tensions and come out with a balanced solution." Meanwhile t...

Anti-reservationists begin hunger strike

Junior doctors of the medical college hospital here, who have been abstaining from duty for a week in protest against the government's proposal // to introduce reservation in higher education institutions, today went on an indefinite hunger strike. The medicos, whose stir has disrupted medical services in the Swaroop Rani Nehru hospital, stepped up their agitation with the hunger stri...

The Government’s Balancing Act on Reservatio

Increasing the reservations on one side and on the other side increasing the number of seats so that general category does not suffer is the UPA Government’s please-all formula//. The Congress-led alliance and its Left supporters announced that 27 per cent of the seats in Central educational institutions would be available to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) from June 2007. Simultaneou...

Pro-reservation body seeks removal of AIIMS Director

Condemning the signature campaign for removal of Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramdoss, a pro-reservation doctor's association today sought// removal of AIIMS Director P Venugopal and some senior doctors for allegedly being behind the agitation by medical students in Delhi against reservations for OBCs in higher education. "The AIIMS Director, Superintendent and some faculty members o...

Junior Doctors Protest Against Reservation Bill

The anti reservation movement has gained momentum following the Union Cabinet’s go ahead signal towards introducing a Bill in the current session of Parliament for providing 27// per cent reservations to Other Backward Castes (OBCs) in government-aided institutions of higher education including professional ones. Angry at the government’s proposal, members of Junior Doctors Association...

AIIMS Goes to Polls Amid Reservation Issues

The reservation issue continues to haunt the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here as the main poll plank// for the elections to its resident doctors association (RDA) that began early Tuesday. Nearly 1,400 resident doctors, interns and students of AIIMS will elect eight representatives including president, vice president, secretary, and joint secretary to re...

Telemedicine Improves Breast Screenings for Rural Indian Reservations

Native American women who live in North Dakota and South Dakota are coming to the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center for their mammograms without// ever leaving the reservation. U-M radiologists sought to improve delivery of traditional mobile mammography, in which a large truck equipped with mammography machines travels to various sites. Using digital mammography inste...

Durable Critters Provides Better Way to Human Egg Preservation

Researchers say that a tiny, six-legged critter that suspends all biological activity when the going //gets tough may hold answers to a better way to cryopreserve human eggs. Tardigrades, also called water bears, can survive Himalayan heights or ocean depths as long as they have moisture. When they don’t, they produce a sugar, trehalose, slowly dehydrate and essentially cease functionin...

Reservation For SC/ST Candidates Under 50% All India Quota

In the application filed before the Hon’ble Supreme Court, the Central Government proposed 15% reservation// to SCs and 7-1/2% to ST candidates in the All India Quota seats of Post Graduate medical/dental course admissions from the academic session 2007-08. While disposing of this application for directions filed by the Central Government in Buddhi Prakash Sharma case Vs Union of India, W...

OBC Creamy Layer May Be Dropped from Reservations in Institutions

New Delhi: The socially and economically advanced among the other backward classes (OBCs) may not get //the benefits of the new educational quota policy as the government prepares its case to urge the Supreme Court to lift its stay on the new policy. "My team of lawyers will find it very hard to convince the court to vacate the stay if you press for the inclusion of the creamy layer," L...