'Awake cardiac surgery' performed at Madurai hospital

A rare "awake cardiac surgery", in which the patient remains awake throughout the procedure, has been performed by a private hospital here on a 53-year-old man. // A two graft coronary artery bypass was performed on Nagarajan, a bus conductor, at the Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Ce...

60 Million Worldwide Carry Heart Disease Mutation

...on carriers have no warning that they are in danger, but the good news is, that we now know the impact of this mutation," Perundurai S. Dhandapany, of madurai Kamaraj University in Madurai, India, said in the news release. Genetic screening can identify carriers of the mutation at a young age. It may be p...

New Coffee Brand to Hit the Market by This Year-end

...ently being executed in collaboration with the Central Food Technology Research Institute, Mysore, The University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, madurai Kamaraj University, and the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology. It is assumed that the coffee genome contains over 30,000 genes of whic...

Kidney Trade: Curbing the Sale

...Fifty-four hospitals were provided with licenses for organ transplant out of which forty-nine were private hospitals. They comprised of hospitals from madurai and Tirunelveli too. The hospitals whose licenses were revoked were M.R. Hospital and Ashwini Soundarya Nursing Home , both located in the ci...

Is India Prepared to Face the Epidemics?

...estions likely to come up at the eighth international symposium on vector-borne diseases sponsored by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) at madurai in Tamil Nadu that started Friday. After all, YF is also spread by the same aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits dengue and chikungunya. Moreov...

Women Compensated For Losing Eye-Sight After Undergoing Cataract Operation

...fter they underwent the operation at the Periyakulam Government Hospital,they developed severe pain and lost their eyesight. They were referred to the madurai Government Rajaji Hospital for further check up and underwent treatment there also.However,they did not get back their eye sight. When they went ...

Drawing from Myth to Become Mistress of Spices

... hotels and teachers of the catering department of the Avinashilingam Deemed University. 'The batch was first given a 15-day catering training in madurai with sessions on improving behavior and self-esteem, and then added skill upgrades in Coimbatore for another fortnight.' 'Getting them away from ...

Tamil Nadu: Minister Palanivelrajan Dead

... while travelling// in a train and died at a private hospital at Dindigul early this morning. 74-year-old Palanivelrajan, who was elected from the madurai Central Constituency, was also the speaker of state Assembly between 1996 and 2001. He is survived by his wife Rukmani and a son, who is working i...

Bird Flu Not The Cause For Mysterious Bird Deaths

...various poultry associations around all the states are offering customers with the new ‘bumper prizes for chicken buyers’ efforts. The associations in madurai in Tamil Nadu, more than 400 prices, including ornaments, cameras, FM radios, audio systems and even TVs are the prizes on offer. After distributing p...

Prime Suspect Apprehended in AIIMS Question Paper Leak

... examination held by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), // has been identified as a post-graduate student, P. Sathish Kumar, of the madurai Medical College. Satish Kumar (26),an MD (Paediatric) student, along with Ravi Kannan (28) of Madurai, MD (Physiology) and two other doctors have ...

Madurai in Biological News

The heart disease mutation carried by 60 million

...r the carriers." "The bad news is that many of these mutation carriers have no warning that they are in danger," said Perundurai S. Dhandapany from madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India, "but the good news is that we now know the impact of this mutation." The lifetime risk of developing heart fai...