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TIMES VIEW  Don't play with lives Although the  Supreme Court  has left it to the Centre to decide whether there should be reservations in  super-speciality posts  such as those at  All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) , implementing such quotas will be wrong. Super-speciality posts, especially in medicine, require an exceptional  degree of expertise and excellence that cannot be compromised. This is all the more so because such medical specialists are in the profession of saving human lives. Their patients expect the very best of medical care. Quotas here would dilute the quality of service and possibly lead to unfortunate accidents. By its very definition a specialist is a professional who possesses knowledge and skills beyond the ordinary. In fact, merit is an automatic prerequisite for such a post. Naturally, all professionals in any given profession cannot become specialists. This fact is sufficient to exclude super-s...

The huge demand for Medical PG seats in Andhra Pradesh has brought in great fortunes in disguise for private medical colleges as they are charging as much as  Rs. 1.80 crore to  Rs. 2 crore under the management quota. Huge gap between the demand and supply of medical PG seats in the state has given a big boost for the managements of private medical colleges as they are charging not less than  Rs. 2 crore for a PG radiology seat. Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s recent order to issue proper procedural guidelines for admission of MBBS and PG seats under management quota, the state government is yet to issue any formal systematic procedure for the private medical colleges to follow for filling up the medical and PG seats. Taking this as advantage the private medical college managements in the state have already started booking the PG seats even as the admission entrance test is scheduled in March this year. There are about 2431 Post Graduate (PG) seats in eight gover...

The  Supreme Court  on Thursday put the ball back in the Centre's court on the contentious issue of factoring in reservation in appointments to faculty posts in  All India Institute of Medical Sciences  saying constitution benches of the court had repeatedly and concurrently warned against reservation at super-specialty level.  A constitution bench comprising Justices H L Dattu, S S Nijjar, Ranjan Gogoi, M Y Eqbal and Vikramjit Sen in its clarification said, "It is for the Centre to take a decision whether there should be reservation in super-specialty posts." This will open the window for the government to provide reservation as a criteria for appointment to AIIMS faculty positions.  The Centre had sought a review of the apex court's July 18, 2013 judgment which appeared to have blocked such reservation in AIIMS faculty posts. It had said, "There were certain services and posts where either on account of the nature of duties attached to them...

WUS Health Centre Delhi  has invited application for filling up the Medical Officer / MO posts on contract basis.Those who are interested in career in Delhi University can apply for recruitment to these jobs as follows - Part Time Medical Officer / MO  – 06 posts Qualification  - MBBS  Upper Age Limit  - 35 years Salary  - Rs. 27,600 per month Selection Method  - Selection of the candidates will be on the basis of interview How to apply  - Interested candidates need to send their application complete in all respect in prescribed format alongwith all needed documents at the following address – Chief Medical Officer,WUS Health Centre,University of Delhi,Delhi – 110007 Last date for application submission  -  January 21,2014  at 01:00 PM For detailed advertisement click on the following link -  http://du.ac.in/fileadmin/DU/students/Pdf/du/advt/2014/10012014_HealthCentre_MO_Advt.pdf

When touch did not work for newlyweds Piya and Hitarth, the couple went for touch therapy wherein the focus should be to touch and experience each other without focusing on intercourse and orgasm!      The couple sought treatment for Un-Consummated Marriage (UCM) after Hitarth reported failure to perform in the bed.      Experts say that touch therapy or ‘Sensate Focus’ is a key therapy devised by Masters and Johnson for couples with UCM. It aims at increasing personal and interpersonal awareness of self and the other’s needs. Each participant is encouraged to focus on their own varied sense experience, rather than to see orgasm as the sole goal of sex.      “Sensate focus is a term usually associated with a set of specific sexual exercises for couples or for individuals.  Majority patients respond to this in the third week of therapy as the anxiety to perform reduces,” says Dr Paras Shah.   ...

Geriatric care is not a depressing affair for 50 of the 70-plus senior citizens in Mumbai's north-western suburbs. Rather it has an  exciting technological edge to it. They are enrolled in a pilot project with Nanavati Hospital's telemedicine programme which allows doctors to remote-monitor their health. From pulse rate to ECG to lung function, their vital parameters are transmitted in real time, thanks to a made-in-India kit that costs Rs 1.25 lakh.  Tech is, it would appear, in a takeover mode in the field of medicine. The first thing you acquire in hospitals these days is a smart card. It's essentially your file number in an electronic avatar, allowing the hospitals and their doctors to instantly recall your medical history at a future date. At specialty clinics, you are likely to be handed a computer tablet to browse through health information before meeting the doctor.  Mobile-based healthcare apps that allow people to keep tabs on their body are alr...

The World Health Organisation is set to officialy declare India a polio free nation soon as no polio cases have been detected in the country for the past three years. India celebrates the third anniversary of being polio free on January 13, the most successful public health story of the past decade. However, the experts are warning against complacency. The threat of cross-border importation still remains very real as Pakistan still records many cases of polio. WHO's declaration comes as a remarkable achievement for a nation that saw more than one lakh babies crippled every year. Until 2009, India accounted for more than half the world's polio cases. "The world thought that it would be very difficult for India to eradicate polio," said NK Arora of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI). In 2011, Rukshsaar from Howrah in Bengal, who was then 2 years old, was the last polio case to have been detected in India. "I regret not get...