Archive for the 'health' Category

Mosquito needle for painless injections

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Indian IIT  professor Suman Chakraborty (from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur) and Kazuyoshi Tsuchiya of Tokai University in Kanagawa have developed a painless microneedle that can be used medically.
It can be used for giving painless drug injections, to take blood for testing and forthings like a wristwatch-type diabetic glucose monitor.
A female mosquito sucks human [...]

LASIK Laser-Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis in Cochin

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

LASIK is the acronym for Laser-Assisted in Situ K eratomileusis, a type of refractive laser eye surgery performed by ophthalmologists for correcting myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism. The procedure is generally preferred to photorefractive keratectomy, PRK, (also called ASA, Advanced Surface Ablation) because it requires less time for the patient’s recovery, and the patient feels less [...]

Cataract Surgery – phako Phacoemulsification surgery

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Cataract surgery is the removal of the lens of the eye (also called “crystalline”) that has developed an opacification, which is referred to as a cataract. Metabolic changes of the crystalline lens fibers over the time lead to the development of the cataract and loss of transparency. Following surgical removal of the natural lens, an [...]

A doctor’s approach to a USB drive viral infection

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Symptoms :
* All hard drive partitions ( C: , D: , E: , …) have an autoplay
* Internet Explorer homepage set to some Thai site . Internet Explorer shows “Hacked by Moozilla” (sic)
on the title bar
* USB drives, and cameras and memory cards and portable hard drives and USB mp3 players and everything
USB shows [...]

Smallpox as a bioterrorism agent ? Smallpox rears its ugly head in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Small pox is back !!! Kolkata ( formerly Calcutta – home of the Bengali babus), West Bengal, India. And Bangladesh. In the Indian subcontinent.
Although naturally occurring smallpox has been eradicated( not quite true – see above), there is still heightened concern that the variola virus might be used as an agent of [...]