Category: Medicine

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 self-concept and self-awareness. What better way to discover our humanness, strengths, weaknesses, the good and the bad than by effectively using the… Continue reading Introduction to Movement Therapy By Dilshad Patel

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 NYU School of Medicine, for its “New Innovator” Award. Professor Neville Sanjana, core faculty member at the New York Genome Center, assistant professor of biology, New… Continue reading Neville Sanjana Granted NIH “New Innovator” Award for Genome Editing to Probe the Noncoding Genome

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 this year. Zubin Daruwalla writes On behalf of the Dyslexia Association of Singapore (DAS), Rotary Club of Raffles City (RCRC), Parsi Community… Continue reading Dr. Jimmy S. Daruwalla Awarded Public Service Medal by Singapore Government

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 unfortunately,succumbing to it. His mission is to educate the masses about the difficulties and complexities of the treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis. Dr Zarir F Udwadia is… Continue reading India’s Ticking Time Bomb! : Dr. Zarir Udwadia

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 Awards, on Wednesday. The 80-year-old surgical gastroenterologist is known as the father of laparoscopy surgery as he was the first to start it in India in… Continue reading Father of Laparoscopy in India, Dr Tehemton Udwadia awarded the prestigious Padma Bhushan

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 and create better antibiotics. Article in San Diego Union Tribune The Tata Trusts of Mumbai announced Sunday that it’s investing in… Continue reading India’s Tata gives UCSD $70M in hot area of genetics to University of California San Diego

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 controversy himself. But instead of provoking an all-out attack on the disease, as he had hoped, the letter set off a… Continue reading Dr. Zarir Udwadia: Battling Drug-Resistant TB, and the Indian Government

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 the Speaker on the topic, “Losing your bladder control- Find Solutions.” The Convenors for the meeting were Dr G B Parulkar, Chairman, Medical Programs & Healthcare Subcommittee… Continue reading Dr. Percy Chibber Spreads Medical Awareness at the Indo-American Society