Category: Medicine

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

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 annual Healthcare Heroes awards program. Dr. Mehta was honored at the awards breakfast and ceremony on June 21 at The Palace at… Continue reading Amor Mehta Named Physician of the Year at NJBIZ’s Healthcare Hero Awards

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 Charles Pinto Cleft Centre at Thrissur’s Jubilee Mission Hospital in south India, the very first hospital to apply for Smile… Continue reading Dr. Hirji Adenwalla: Adding Smiles To Lives

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 of finding a match within the Zarathushti community are greater. Thus, we are asking you to reach out and make a… Continue reading Bone Marrow Match Drive for Kamron Sohrabian

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 ADULT ADJUSTMENT (A LAB) RESEARCH PROJECT The A Lab Research Project (http://www.csun.edu/plunk/alab) at California State University Northridge was designed to enhance the understanding of successful… Continue reading Family Qualities & Mental Health of Zoroastrian Young Adults: A Study