1955 IST, Friday, May 24, 2013 
Health/Education
Prayer, spirituality gets the doctors' nodBy Azera Parveen Rahman
Hardly anyone doubts the power of prayer and almost everyone has a turnaround tale - maybe personal, or of someone else's - that credits the "miracle" to a prayer. Now while science and spirituality may not always see eye to eye, holistic treatment is now finding greater acceptance, and spirituality, among everything else, is recommended by doctors as part of the healing process. |
Social mobilisation key to polio eradication in India: Bill GatesBy Arun Kumar
Expected to be the hardest, polio eradication was made possible in India thanks to social mobilisation and mapping of houses refusing the vaccine, according to Microsoft's Bill Gates. |
Gurgaon to have India's first defence varsity
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation stone of the first Indian National Defence University (INDU) here May 23, an official said. |
Nalanda University project takes major step forward
In a major step towards realising the ambitious Nalanda International University, coming up in Rajgir in Bihar, an international jury has selected the architectural design of an Ahmedabad-based firm for the varsity. |
Ayurveda experts develop online personalised health regimen
A group of ayurveda experts have launched a medical treatment package in cyberspace. |
India announces low cost vacine for diarrhoeaDeccan Herald
While two common vaccines against rotavirus made by GSK and Merck cost around Rs.900 per dose, Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech plans to sell the Indian product at Rs.54 (one dollar) per dose. Children need three dosages at sixth, tenth and 14th weeks of their lives. |
Educating the Muslim girl child - in a Mughal-era structureBy Meha Mathur
Functioning in a Mughal-era structure near Jama Masjid in the capital's old quarters is the Balak Mata Centre of Jamia Millia Islamia, one of India's oldest universities. The centre, located in Matia Mahal, provides education and vocational training to deprived Muslim girls and women. |
Ayurveda becoming popular for eye diseases tooBy M.R. Narayan Swamy
The world's first ayurvedic ophthalmic hospital here says that more and more people are turning to the ancient Indian system of medicine to resolve eye problems. |
Indian is youngest Berkley topper in a century
Kolkata born Ritankar Das, a bioengineering and chemical biology double major at the University of California at Berkeley has become the youngest student to receive the University Medal in more than a century. |
Jamia prepares 'brains' to help India understand neighboursBy Meha Mathur
Jamia Millia Islamia, one of the country's oldest universities, has embarked upon a series of country-specific programmes to prepare a cadre of experts to fulfil the research needs of the government and think tanks, something which foreign service officials are perhaps not adept at doing, the university says. |
India is meeting the challenge of reaching quality health care to every household in a country of over a billion people living in over 700,000 cities, towns, villages and hamlets. The country boasts of some of the finest hospitals in the region, cutting-edge research facilities, pharma companies which also export their products to other countries. Indian doctors are known for their expertise and commitment to their chosen vocation.
