Chess Champion Anand to Champion HIV/AIDS for Avahan

Chess champion and grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand will now champion the cause of HIV/AIDS for 'Avahan', the Indian chapter of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. // Anand will work towards increasing the awareness about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India for Avahan's public education cam...

Viswanathan Anand Is To Be Avahan’s HIV-AIDS Ambassador in Indi

Avahan, India a foundation set up by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Thursday announced Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand as its HIV-AIDS ambassador in India. // The officials said that Anand, in his new role, would raise awareness of the disease in the country. The official release said t...

Versus Technology, Inc. Partners With Microsoft(R) To Promote Health Care Automation in Windows 7 Computing Environments

... Chief Technology Officer, Versus Technology, Inc., will present along with anand Gaddum, Director of Healthcare Practice at iLink Systems and Elizabeth Biel...velopment Manager, Worldwide Health, Microsoft anand Gaddum, Director of Healthcare Practice, iLink Systems H. T. ...

Study shows endoscopic surgery as effective open surgery for nasal cancer

... and performed further analysis and found the endoscopic surgery group maintained better survival rates than the open surgery group," said lead author anand K. Devaiah, MD, FACS, an assistant professor in the departments of otolaryngology - head and neck surgery and neurological surgery as well as an atten...

ARVO announces inaugural class of Fellows

...III George L. Spaeth Janet R. Sparrow Abraham Spector William K. Stell Michael E. Stern Richard A Stone Nirmala Sundarraj William H Swanson anand Swaroop Allen Taylor Carlo Enrico Travers Michael Thomas Trese Scheffer C.G. Tseng Andrew T.C. Tsin Lawrence Tychsen John L. Ubels Rohit V...

Immune reaction to metal debris leads to early failure of joint implants

...oid the early failure of joint replacements. Other researchers at Rush involved in the study were Marco Caicedo, Ronak Desai, Kyron McAllister, Dr. anand Reddy, and Dr. Joshua Jacobs. ...

Excellence in Supply Chain and Manufacturing Recognized at Frost & Sullivan's India Manufacturing Excellence Awards 2008

...oskar Systems Ltd, Bangalore, Mr. S M Trehan, MD, Crompton Greaves Ltd, Mr. anand Rangachary, MD, Frost & Sullivan, South Asia and Middle East, Mr. C Nar... and Process. Speaking about the roadmap ahead for manufacturing, anand Rangachary, Managing Director, Frost & Sullivan, South Asia and Middle ...

'Building the New Majority' Launches Grassroots GOP Effort in New Jersey

...nd their children live in Princeton, NJ. The Crowley family story is the subject of a book by Pulitzer prize winning Wall Street Journal writer, Geeta anand entitled, "The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 million and Bucked the Medical Establishment in a Quest to Save His Children." (http://www.thecurebook....

PTSD associated with more, longer hospitalizations

...iated with increased healthcare utilization apart from mental health visits, a finding which was attenuated after adjusting for PTSD, said lead author anand Kartha, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at BUSM. This may be due to the fact that the non-traumatized to whom we are comparing the traumatized...

Popular Colonoscopy Prep Solution May Pose Kidney Risks

...because of their potential of causing kidney damage," said study author Dr. anand Khurana, of the department of nephrology with the Scott & White Clinic ..., visit the American Cancer Society . SOURCES: anand Khurana, M.D., department of nephrology, Scott & White Clinic, Texas A&...

Anand in Medical Technology

PG500 Series Presented at the AACR Annual Meeting in San Diego

...candidate for additional studies required to support an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Dr. anand Gautam, Vice President, Drug Discovery, stated, "PG545 was selected over and above other compounds based on a comprehensive target product profile inc...

MicroDose Announces Positive Results From the QDose Inhaled Insulin Glucose Clamp Study

...research facilities in the US and Germany and is the leading institute in the world for euglycaemic, hyperglycaemic and hypoglycaemic glucose clamps. anand Gumaste, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of MicroDose, commented: "Treatment of diabetes with insulin has historically been challenging, having to ove...

PI-88 Data to be Presented at Key International Conferences

...ion will take place on Saturday 14 April 2007 at the 42nd EASL Annual Meeting, which is to be held in Barcelona, Spain from April 11-15, 2007. Dr. anand Gautam, Progen's VP of Discovery Research, will be presenting results at the AACR Annual Meeting 2007, which will be held in Los Angeles, U.S, from Ap...

Anand in Biological News

Finding the constant in bacterial communication

...ell-to-cell communication mechanism that enables bacteria to sense and respond to changes in the density of the bacteria in a given environment," said anand Pai, graduate student in bioengineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. "It regulates a wide variety of biological functions such as biolumines...

Caltech researchers explore how cells reconcile mixed messages in decisions about growth

... best to grow tissues in a laboratory. In normal epithelial tissues, mature cells that are in contact with one another tend not to divide, explains anand Asthagiri, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Caltech, and the paper's principal investigator. This process, known as contact inhibition, ...

Researchers find link between nicotine addiction and autism

...ract with the brain to counter nicotine addiction. anand said the medications could be retailored for use i...ulate that neurexin levels are lower," he said. anand presented the research Monday (11/17) at the Socie...Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. anand and colleagues were studying drug abuse and addict...

Transplanted photoreceptor precursor cells restore visual function in mice with retinal degeneration

...na that are essential for sight. The findings, reported in the November 9 advance online issue of Nature, come from the collaborative research of anand Swaroop, Ph.D., the Harold F. Falls Collegiate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School, and Robin ...

Anand in Biological Technology

Researchers enlist DNA to bring carbon nanotubes' promise closer to reality

...article is titled "DNA sequence motifs for structure-specific recognition and separation of carbon nanotubes." Its authors are Ming Zheng, Xiaomin Tu, anand Jagota and Suresh Manohar. Zheng and Tu are scientists with DuPont Central Research and Development. Jagota is a professor of chemical engineering at ...

Quintiles Expands Base for Growing Asia-Pacific Operations

...g a total of 23 nationalities, who have worked in more clinical trials and with more investigator sites than any other single organization in Asia." anand Tharmaratnam, M.D., Head of Clinical Development, Quintiles Asia Pacific, said the expanded facility renews the company's commitment to the region and...

Thousands Rally in Mexico City and Call for Human Rights Protections in Global AIDS Response

...ion programs for populations most at risk." In addition to Piot, Robinson, Kazatchkine, Cohen, and Alvarez Icaza, speakers at today's rally included anand Grover, newly appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health and Director of the Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit in India; Jeffrey O'Malley, ...

Possible New Way to Detect, Monitor Liver Disease Without Painful Liver Biopsy

...k. Patients and doctors would prefer tests that are "not invasive" such as a blood test to detect and monitor liver disease. Lead investigators Drs. anand Mehta and Timothy Block report in the upcoming Journal of Virology, which appears online next week and in print February 2008, their discovery that th...

Students Win Burrill Competition With Plan for Renewable Energy

...or manufacturing and distributing low-cost, useful items that they test market and bring to market quickly. OZ Innovations is a business developed bay anand Chhatpar, a sophomore in computer engineering, and Osman Ozcanli, an industrial engineering student. Several of their products are already on the mark...

Blue Cross BlueShield of South Carolina implements Esker solutions

...our own pace and use the automation technology in their DeliveryWare Rules Engine to automate any business process step that involves documents, added anand Jani, systems lead for telephony at BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. Esker Software solutions is an international company headquartered in M...

Brainstorming entrepreneur creates new innovation business

... Chhatpar Madison, Wis. He may have just graduated last year, but anand Chhatpar is already launching a new global business, hot on the heels of his brainstorming service that sells the ideas of university students to comp...