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eHEALTH Weekly Newsletter: 17 January, 2014 Volume 11, Issue 03
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India Celebrates three years without Polio
India in celebration as the nation defeats crippling disease Polio.India completed three consecutive years without a single case of wild Polio virus, today and hence achieving the three-year milestone necessary to achieve Polio-free certification from WHO.
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Inverse Association Between Alcohol Consumption, Multiple Sclerosis
Drinking alcohol appears to have a dose-dependent inverse (opposite) association with the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) and researchers suggest their findings give no support to advising patients with MS to completely refrain from alcohol, according to a study by Anna Karin Hedstrom, M.D., of the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and colleagues.
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Genetic Mutations known to cause Familial Alzheimer's Disease
New research, led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researcher Chunyu Wang, has solved one mystery in the development of Familial Alzheimer's Disease (FAD), a genetic variant of the disease that affects a small fraction of the Alzheimer's population.
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Urologic Science Touching New Horizons
Dr Rajeev Sood, Professor & Head- Urology, Dr RML Hospital & PGI-MER, Delhi, Nominated Urologist to the President of India, Consultant Urologist to the Parliament of India and the Organising Secretary of USICON 2014, discusses with Shahid Akhter, ENN, the emerging frontiers in urology that will shape USICON 2014 (29 Jan – 2 Feb, 2014)
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Pioneer in spreading Health Informatics Awareness
Currently the Project Director of the Centre for Health Informatics of the National Health Portal at the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, Prof Suptendra Nath Sarbadhikari , in an interaction with Ekta Srivastava, ENN, elaborates more on the health informatics awareness and role of ICT in healthcare
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Awaiting Arrival of Ultrashort TE Technique
A renowned name in radiology with speialisation in neuro-imaging , Dr Rakesh K Gupta, Director and Head, Department of Radiology, Fortis Memorial Research Institute elaborates on the upcoming trends in radiology in background of the much awaited India Radiology and Imaging Association of India (IRIA) 2014 annual conference to be held in Agra this year.
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