5/16/2013  A cheap and effective vaccine is being heralded by the Indian government as a major victory in the country's ongoing fight against rotavirus — a deadly instigator of severe diarrhea prevalent among infants and young children. In India, the fatal virus accounts for almost 100,000 deaths annually, approximately half of which are children less than a year old. Worldwide, the death total climbs to almost 500,000. |
| 5/9/2013  In 1896 Cezanne told one of his biographers: "I am in bad shape." He added, "It's the eyes, yes, my eyes — straight lines look like they are falling sometimes."
In 1880, Cezanne did a series of paintings of Mont Saint Victoire. The painting of the mountain dating late 1880 depicts a smooth continuous slope, but in the same scene painted two decades later, the mountain is fragmented and the brushstrokes appear in a state of conflict. |
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5/9/2013  While the first-ever Indian and South Asian Health Expo was a great success, with approximately 700 attending over the day-long event at the Marriott Hotel in Newton, Mass., on April 27, particularly popular was the speaker series, which had a packed hall filled with attentive listeners being addressed on a number of health-related topics.
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| 5/9/2013
The first-ever Indian and South Asian Health Expo, organized by the Indian Medical Association of New England and INDIA New England news, as well as 15 community and professional organizations, drew rave reviews from the approximately 700 attendees. Many well-known doctors in attendance also had high praise for the event, which was held all day on April 27 at the Marriott Hotel in Newton, Mass.
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4/25/2013
 The Indian Medical Association of New England has grown from a handful of doctors gathering together in unity over their profession to one of the most influential organizations in New England with about 400 members. The list of presidents who have led the group is impressive and contains leaders in their respective medical fields. The accomplishments and footprint the group has left can be seen on the medical community and on the Indian American community as a whole. Reflecting back on the start and growth of the group most share a pride in how the group has matured and for the important role it plays in the lives of its members. |
| 4/25/2013
The Young Physicians Society has been part of the Indian Medical Association of New England, but as more and more second generation Indian Americans graduate from U.S. medical schools and start out into the medical industry and their own practices, the role of these doctors in the growth of the organization is critical and the young physician's section provides an early indoctrination. |
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4/25/2013
 Any new president or head of an organization typically takes over with an ambitious agenda in mind, and current Indian Medical Association of New England President Manju Sheth is no different. However, while practicality may win out over ambition in many cases, this does not appear to be the case for Sheth as she gotten off to a very strong start for her term as president of the medical organization, already tackling many of the agenda items she said she would. |
| 4/3/2013
 The Carolinas chapter of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, the Carolinas Indian-American Physicians Society, celebrated member achievements and contributions during its annual convention held on March 22 at the Renaissance Charlotte Suites in Charlotte, N.C. More than 400 physicians and their families gathered for the event. |
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3/21/2013
 Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has recruited renowned pediatric liver specialist Nanda Kerkar, M.D., to the position of medical director of pediatric liver and liver transplantation in the division of gastroenterology and nutrition in the department of pediatrics. Kerkar has also been appointed to professor of clinical pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.
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| 3/15/2013
 The South Asian Heart Center at El Camino Hospital, the first major nonprofit organization dedicated to combating heart disease among the South Asian community, has joined Million Hearts, a national initiative of the Department of Health and Human Services to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017.
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3/7/2013
 The American Association of Physicians of India Origin is launching a nine-city tour to raise awareness about obesity in children. The Childhood Obesity Awareness Campaign will include a music concert at each stop by Bollywood singer Shankar Mahadevan.
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| 2/28/2013
The ReMotion Knee, a low cost prosthetic knee joint, is the latest winner of the Cool Idea! Award from Proto Labs, a manufacturer of machined and injection molded parts. Proto Labs launched the Cool Idea! Award in 2011 to give product designers the opportunity to bring their innovations to life by presenting up to $250,000 worth of prototyping and short-run production services to award recipients. D-Rev, designer and manufacturer of the ReMotion knee, is 2013’s first Cool Idea! recipient. Proto Labs is providing D-Rev with injection molded parts to fulfill its next round of testing.
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2/21/2013
 Vanderbilt University has partnered with GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric Co., to better define — at the cellular level — how colon tumors form and develop. The GE-Vanderbilt project, led by GE scientists Michael Gerdes and Kashan Shaikh, and by Robert Coffey, Ingram Professor of Cancer Research at Vanderbilt, will explore how intestinal stem cells of the colon contribute to tumor formation and progression, and the signaling pathways associated with the disease.
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| 2/21/2013
 There is hair everywhere on the human skin except the palms of our hands and the soles of our feet. Hair is made up of a protein called keratin that is produced in hair follicles in the outer layer of the skin. As follicles produce new hair cells, old cells are pushed out through the surface of the skin at the rate of about six inches a year. The hair one sees is actually a string of dead keratin cells. The average adult head has about 100,000 to 150,000 hairs and loses up to 100 a day; so finding a few stray hairs on your hairbrush is not necessarily cause for alarm.
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2/21/2013
 Over 3,000 physicians of Indian origin are expected to gather and deliberate on ways to enhance their own professional growth and identify ways to network and stay united and offer a unified voice to protect their rights, as well as explore possibilities to give back to the society at the 31st Annual AAPI Convention to be held from May 23-27 at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers in Chicago.
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| 2/14/2013
 Perkins International and the National Association for the Blind, India have joined forces in an effort the organizations say will help to accelerate growth of programs in India for people who are blind. For the first time in its 183 year history, Perkins will work with an international partner not only to build capacity and expertise to educate children who are blind or deafblind, but also to cultivate financial support outside the United States, the organization said. |
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2/7/2013
 Dr. Sonal Pandya, co-director of the Lahey Lexington Center for Plastic and Laser Surgery of the Lahey Clinic, will lead a seminar on "Anti-Aging Therapy: Rejuvenation for the Face: Something Old and Something New" at the first mega Indian and South Asian Health Expo on April 27 at the Marriott Hotel in Newton, Mass.
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| 1/31/2013
 The Indian Medical Association of New England, an organization for medical professionals of Indian origin in the New England area, is working hard for the first mega Indian and South Asian Health Expo, which will be held on April 27 at the Marriott Hotel in Newton, Mass. The IMANE team is led by its president, Dr. Manju Sheth. |
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1/17/2013
 A 52-year-old man, who had recently relocated from India, came to the office for a physical. He had no significant medical history. He did not recall ever going to a doctor. His work, wife and his insurance company persuaded him to get a physical. To his surprise, his urine showed three plus sugar and his fasting sugar was well above the normal range. A strong family history of diabetes that he had ignored thus far was now rearing its ugly head.
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| 1/17/2013
The Indian Medical Association of New England and INDIA New England News will hold a Health Expo in April that will bring the area’s major hospitals and health-care providers together with the Indian and South Asian community in New England to educate them about common diseases and their prevention.
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