Kanpur

IIT Kanpur Students, Medicos Protest Against Ramadoss

Students of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and Ganesh Shanker Vidyarathi Medical College today took out a candlelight procession protesting the //dismissal of P Venugopal as Director of the premier All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. Carrying placards and posters that ...

Meet the petroholic Boy of Kanpur

At an age when most of the children are found cherishing coca cola drinks at home or parties, ten-year-old Mohammad Sajid has developed an uncanny taste petrol! Sajid sneaks into courtyards and garages around Anwarganj in Kanpur to steal his cherished drink. Unsurprisingly, he is a big hea...

Health Services Remain Affected In Kanpur

Health services in various hospitals affiliated to GSVM medical college in Kanpur remained affected today as the medicos' protest against the OBC quota in elite educational institutions entered the 11th day here. // Junior doctors and students were continuing with the protest against Centre's...

Iron banded worms drying out of blood could be linked to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's

... Researchers at the University of Warwick and the Indian Institute of Technology kanpur have discovered that the mechanism that we rely on to transport iron safely through our blood stream can, in certain circumstances, collapse into a st...

Babies Driving Robots at University

...h at Ohio University from 1990 until 1996, when he joined the UD faculty. He received his bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in kanpur and his master's degree from Ohio State University. Galloway, who directs the UD Infant Motor Behavior Laboratory, received his doctorate in physiol...

Ex-IITian-designed Alzheimer's Drug's Human Clinical Trials Begin

... first disease-modifying therapy. It may be able to prevent and reverse the disease," Ghosh, who did his MSc from MSc, Indian Institute of Technology, kanpur in 1981. CoMentis Inc., a San Francisco-based biopharmaceutical firm co-founded by Professor Ghosh and Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (O...

Apollo Tyres All Set to Enter the Healthcare Sector

... smaller cities since it was difficult to get requisite land in metropolitan areas. "So far, we have decided on four cities - Baroda in Gujarat, kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, Kochi in Kerala and Jaipur in Rajasthan. In all these cities, at least 200-bed tertiary hospitals will come up under the AHS banner....

Gynaecological Society Has Sought a Ban on Illegal Sale of Sperms

...nor sperms, without tests and checks by sperm banks, was a serious matter and required urgent government intervention. At its 18th conference in kanpur this week, FOGSI also asked the government to draw up guidelines and rules for safe abortions, which it said was turning into a major source of infert...

Hindustan Latex To Market Vaccines

... of reproductive health for the low-income population. The first LifeSpring Hospital in Hyderabad has been followed up with similar hospitals in kanpur and Agra. The company is planning to set up the LifeSpring chain of hospitals in every major district in the country. This is a unique social fr...

Quota Row: Student Attempts Immolation

... 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 orders to nine central medical i...

Kanpur in Biological News

Understanding how bacteria communicate may help scientists prevent disease

...ceedings of the National Academy of Science.). Kulkarni received his Master of Science degree in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology in kanpur and his Ph.D. in physics from Ohio State University. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis, and a postdoctoral resea...