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Unlocking the secrets of the Parsi gene: What makes them live longer, protects them from certain cancers
A life sciences firm has turned to this community to understand how certain diseases occur in the general population...
Dr. Yazdi Italia Conferred Award by Gujarat Government for his work in Prevention and Control of Sickle Cell Anemia
Dr. Yazdi Italia, Ph.D. is a Translation Scientist. Since 1978, He is one of the pioneers and Ex. Hon. Director (2006 - 2012) of India’s first Sickle Cell Anemia Control Program of Government of...
She Gave The World 20,000 Babies: Dr. Firuza Parikh
The magic and wonder of advanced medicine hit home last Friday, July 7, 2023, when at an event at a south Mumbai hotel all the 30-40 children and teenagers in the room were 'test tube' babies -- IVF...
Professor Hoshang Jehangir Unwalla Receives 2022-23 Outstanding Mentor Award from Florida Education Fund’s McKnight Doctoral Fellowship Program
Congratulations to Hoshang Unwalla, PhD, who received the 2022-23 Outstanding Mentor Award from the Florida Education Fund’s McKnight Doctoral Fellowship Program. The McKnight program aims to...
Shared Hospital Lab honours founding member Dr. Dhun Noria.
Healthcare trailblazer, Dr. Dhun Noria, Chief of Laboratory Medicine at Scarborough Health Network (SHN), was recently honoured for her formative and ground-breaking contributions to the Shared...
120-year-old Masina Hospital gets ₹22 crore facelift
The historic Masina Hospital—city’s second oldest healthcare centre, is all set to complete the ₹22 crore revamp of its patient facility in the next two monthsMasina Hospital at Byculla, in Mumbai,...
Brain box: doctoral student Delshad Kalantary’s goal to help with memory loss
Delshad Kalantary has adopted a Kiwi DIY attitude and built a light-therapy box she hopes one day could help with memory loss. PhD student Delshad Kalantary. Photo: Billy WongPainstakingly...
Dr. Tehemton Udwadia: In Conversation
I was ridiculed when attempting something different: Laparoscopy pioneer Tehemton Udwadia Photo Credit: IANSIANSLiveArticle by Vishnu Makhijani | IANSNew Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) His mentor taught that...
Doyens of medical service: Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College in Pune celebrates 75th foundation day
The hospital had played a crucial role during the 2009 Swine flu outbreak and even now, before PMC could upgrade its hospitals with ventilators and tertiary care, Sassoon was the only government...
Famed deliverer of babies Dr Feridoon Setna passes away
Benazir Bhutto said to have been his patientOne of Karachi’s most famous gynaecologists, Dr Faridoon Setna, FRCOG, has passed away, according to information on Saturday.His funeral prayers will be...
With ‘folded hands’, Poonawalla urges Biden to lift export ban from these raw materials
With ‘folded hands’, Poonawalla urges Biden to lift export ban from these raw materialsSII chief executive Adar Poonawalla said that vaccine production can be ramped up if the Biden administration...
Dr. Mahrukh Bamji Appointed Chair of Department of Pediatrics at New York City’s Metropolitan Hospital
We are informed of the appointment of Mahrukh Bamji, MD as Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the NYCHHC/Metropolitan Hospital. Dr. Bamji has had a versatile career at Metropolitan as a senior...
‘We took a huge risk’: the Indian firm making more Covid jabs than anyone
Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of the Serum Institute of India, on vaccines, regulation and what comes nextAdar Poonawalla, 40, is the chief executive of the Serum Institute of India (SII), the...
Indian Health Minister launches Serum Institute Of India’s Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine – Pneumosil
Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan launched India’s first indigenously developed pneumococcal vaccine, 'PNEUMOSIL' manufactured by the Serum Institute of India.
"Happy New Year, All Risks Paid Off": Adar Poonawalla On Vaccine Approval
All the risks taken by Serum Institute have finally paid off, tweeted Adar Poonawalla, the chief executive of the Pune-based vaccine manufacturer, shortly after the country's drug regulator cleared...
India plans immediate production of Oxford vaccine to combat Covid-19
The Serum Institute of India is aiming to have 100 million doses ready by December for an inoculation drive and the country will be given first priority for delivery of the AstraZeneca-Oxford...
Stanford MedStaff Spotlight: Dr. Zara Patel
Stanford Health Care recently did a spotlight on Dr. Zara Patel Dr. Patel is Associate Professor of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery and, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery and Director of...
Dr. Hoshedar P. Tamboli Voted Top Cardiologist 2020 by Florida Magazine
Heart Vascular and Vein of Tampa Bay proudly announces that Dr. Hoshedar Tamboli will be joining the practice, starting Aug. 31, 2020. Dr. Tamboli has been in the practice of interventional and...
The World’s Best Hope for Enough Covid-19 Vaccine Comes from India
▲ Adar Poonawalla, CEO of the Serum Institute, and his wife, Natasha, at their ranch in Pune, India.Photographer: Subhash Sharma for Bloomberg BusinessweekThe Serum Institute of India is preparing...
Indian Billionaires Bet Big on Head Start in Coronavirus Vaccine Race
The world’s largest vaccine producer, the Serum Institute, announced a plan to make hundreds of millions of doses of an unproven inoculation. It’s a gamble with a huge upside. And huge...
Indian drug mogul says Americans will pay too much for the Covid vaccine—and wants to change that
Adar Poonawalla is seizing on the Covid-19 fight to try to break down the policies protecting Big Pharma.Adar Poonawalla, chief executive officer of Serum Institute of India Ltd., says he’s in talks...
Australian Researcher Carromex led by Dr. Burzin Bhavnagri Unveils Pharma Leads
Carromex started out as a family business in the 1980s. While the products and services offered by Carromex have been diverse, for the last 8 years we have focused on mathematical research and...
Adar Poonawalla on producing a Covid-19 vaccine, handling the pressure and preparing for the future
Any other summer, Adar Poonawalla would've been aboard a yacht on the French Riviera. But Covid-19 upended all plans, and the CEO of the world's largest vaccine company finds himself in the thick of...
The Serum Institute: How one Indian company could be world’s door to a COVID-19 vaccine
If the world is to gain access to a vaccine for COVID-19, there’s a good chance it will pass through the doors of Serum Institute of India. Article By Abhirup Roy, Euan Rocha | Reuters...
Zoroastrian Community Steps Up to Support Their Own in Iran Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic
Community support for IranArticle by Mahtab Irani On March 26, 2020, Yazd Shahid Sadoughi University Of Medical Science, Iran received the second humanitarian package of medical supplies and safety...
Serum Institute: Indian company 1st to test coronavirus vaccine on animals, human trials expected in 6 months
The vaccine candidate developed by Serum Institute of India (SII), in partnership with American Biotechnology firm Codagenix, has progressed to the pre-clinical tests phase, i.e. the animal trial...
Pain Management with Dr. Rohaan F. Mehta
Dr. Mehta offers a comprehensive approach to treating customers suffering from painful conditions. He believes that by addressing pain as soon as it starts, rather than waiting to see how it...
Experimental Treatment Helps Maryland Woman Beat Lymphoma
Our dear friend Dr. Pashna Munshi is part of the team that is working on this experimental treatment for Lymphoman.A Maryland woman who suffered a lengthy battle with stage-three non-Hodgkin...
Introduction to Movement Therapy By Dilshad Patel
We are happy to bring you an exclusive Introduction to Movement Therapy by our good friend Dilshad Patel To become the best possible version of ourselves; we must develop a grounded understanding of...
Neville Sanjana Granted NIH “New Innovator” Award for Genome Editing to Probe the Noncoding Genome
The National Institutes of Health has selected the laboratory of Neville Sanjana, an assistant professor in NYU’s Department of Biology and an assistant professor of neuroscience and physiology at...
Dr. Jimmy S. Daruwalla Awarded Public Service Medal by Singapore Government
Zubin Daruwalla, in a Linkedin post informs us about his father the late Dr. Jimmy S. Daruwalla being awarded the Public Service Medal by the Singapore Government on the National Day of Singapore...
India’s Ticking Time Bomb! : Dr. Zarir Udwadia
One indian dies of this disease every minute. Dr. Zarir Udwadia shares the story of the suffering of one patient diagnosed with Totally Drug Resistant -Tuberculosis (TDR-TB). And...
Father of Laparoscopy in India, Dr Tehemton Udwadia awarded the prestigious Padma Bhushan
Mumbai’s Dr Tehemton Erach Udwadia has been conferred with India’s third-highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan. The government announced the list of notable people, who will receive the Padma...
Dr. Maneck Bhagat: Pioneering Pediatrician, Teacher, Musician
Dr. Maneck Bhagat: Pioneering Pediatrician, Teacher, Musician (1917 – 1982) Article by Dr. Patricia Steckler Bhagat 7:30 am sharp, Pediatrics Ward 2, at the King Edward Memorial (K.E.M.) hospital,...
India’s Tata gives UCSD $70M in hot area of genetics to University of California San Diego
One of India’s top philanthropists is giving UC San Diego $70 million to explore ways to use a radically new way of editing genes to fight insect-borne diseases, make crops more resistant to drought...
Dr. Zarir Udwadia: Battling Drug-Resistant TB, and the Indian Government
IT is doubtful when he wrote a letter to a medical journal about patients in Mumbai afflicted with an untreatable form of tuberculosis that Dr. Zarir Udwadia was seeking to become the source of...
Dr. Percy Chibber Spreads Medical Awareness at the Indo-American Society
Indo-American Society spreads medical awareness on a very common mid-age problem - Loss of Bladder control Indo-American Society organized a Medical Seminar, inviting Urologist, Dr Percy Chibber as...
Amor Mehta Named Physician of the Year at NJBIZ’s Healthcare Hero Awards
Amor Mehta, MD, medical director of the Level 3 Epilepsy Center at the Jay and Linda Grunin Neuroscience Institute at Community Medical Center, has been named Physician of the Year at NJBIZ’s 10th...
Dr. Hirji Adenwalla: Adding Smiles To Lives
Smile Train partner surgeon Dr. Hirji S. Adenwalla is, quite possibly, the only surgeon in the world who has been exclusively performing cleft surgeries for the last 15 years. He is the head of The...
Bone Marrow Match Drive for Kamron Sohrabian
Meher Amalsad, friend of Parsi Khabar informs us... Kamron Sohrabian, a senior in high school is in dire need of a bone marrow transplant. He is a resident of Orange County, California. His chances...
Family Qualities & Mental Health of Zoroastrian Young Adults: A Study
Family Qualities & Mental Health of Zoroastrian Young Adults is the title of a very detailed and interesting research exercise conducted by Farin Bakhtiari and and Scott Plunkett. ADOLESCENT AND...
Lifegiver: The Biography of Dr Rustom P. Soonawala
One of Mumbai’s most celebrated gynaecologists gets a biography that connects his roots with medical innovation of the 1960s Watching him drive his sedan past some serious afternoon traffic to...
Can The Cure for Migraine Come From The Parsi Community ?
Migraines – debilitating and agonising, there’s not much that can be done about them. Science is still looking for an effective way to prevent these recurring headaches. The answer to what can help...
Jiyo Parsi: An Inside Perspective
The following is an interview with Dr. Zinobia Madan, one of the founding members of the Jiyo Parsi Programme, on what the project really means to the community. This was originally published in the...
The Traditional Parsi Hadvaid
Abstract This article studies the heritage of the traditional hadvaid in the Parsi-Zoroastrian community and shows how this tradition pre-dates what the world today knows as chiropractic. The...
Dr. Keiki Mehta Honored at American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Congress 2014
Two Luminaries in the Field of Ophthalmology Named Honored Guests at the 2014 Annual ASCRS-ASOA Symposium and Congress in Boston Two physicians who have made significant contributions to the field...
Dhun Noria: Indian-origin doctor honored in Canada
Dr Dhun Noria, who heads the Lab Medicine Program lab at Scarborough Hospital, is set to receive Global Lifetime Achievement Award for her impressive professional accomplishments and community...
Cyrus Poonawalla: Polio vaccines – Injecting competition
WILL the world eradicate polio? If it does, some of the credit may go to a 73-year-old billionaire horse-breeder from the Indian city of Pune: he wants to provide injectable polio vaccine at a...
Dr. Motibai Kapadia: Gujarat's first lady doctor treated sexism and untouchability too
Dr Motibai Kapadia (1867-1930) obtained a degree in medicine in 1889, just three years after Anandi Joshi became the first lady doctor of India. Motibai also strove to serve society and did so in...
Parsis may have to stop using certain painkillers
Parsis in the city, particularly those who offer their dead to the vultures, may be asked to do away with some popular painkillers like Voveran, if their vulture breeding program is successful. By...
A year on, JJ Hospital finally gets Rs. 52 Lacs from Maneck Sanjana’s Estate
In January 2011, JJ received an email that a Parsi woman had left 100,000 Canadian dollars for it. But the hospital authorities thought of it as an elaborate online fraud By Santosh Andhale | Mumbai...