University College of Medical Education, Thevara

Friday, September 14, 2012

World Alzheimer’s Day: September 21

World Alzheimer's Day, September 21st of each year, is a day on which Alzheimer's organizations around the world concentrate their efforts on raising awareness about Alzheimer's and dementia. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, a group of disorders that impairs mental functioning. At the moment, Alzheimer's is progressive and irreversible.

September is World Alzheimer's Month!

September 2012 marks the first global World Alzheimer’s Month, an international campaign to raise awareness and challenge stigma.

The theme for World Alzheimer's Month 2012 is Dementia: Living together.

http://www.alz.co.uk/world-alzheimers-month

http://www.alzinfo.org/08/alzheimers/world-alzheimers-day

Saturday, March 24, 2012

World TB Day March 24 2012

People of different ages and living in different countries could have these hopes for stopping TB in their lifetimes:

Zero deaths from TB
Faster treatment
A quick, cheap, low-tech test
An effective vaccine
A world free of TB.

http://www.worldtbday.org/

World TB Day (March 24) calls for awareness of the global epidemic of tuberculosis and efforts to eliminate the disease. On the occasion, The Hindu takes a look at the Kerala scenario, especially against the backdrop of the State reporting the highest level of basic TB treatment failure in the country at 6 per cent.

Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)

Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer reviewed, PubMed indexed journal devoted to the publication of biological, medical, chemical and physical research in a video format.

The Journal of Visualized Experiments, JoVE, is dedicated to accelerating biological, medical, chemical and physical research by elucidating techniques through a combination of peer reviewed video and text.

JoVE) was established as a new tool in life science publication and communication, with participation of scientists from leading research institutions. JoVE takes advantage of video technology to capture and transmit the multiple facets and intricacies of life science research. Visualization greatly facilitates the understanding and efficient reproduction of both basic and complex experimental techniques, thereby addressing two of the biggest challenges faced by today's life science research community: i) low transparency and poor reproducibility of biological experiments and ii) time and labor-intensive nature of learning new experimental techniques.