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India’s first stemcell transplant for traumatic brain injury

TTB — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:36:36 +0000

A 27-year old woman, suffering from severe disability for the past one year following an accident, has succesfully underwent brain stemcell transplant surgery, the first such case in the country, doctors at a superspeciality hospital here claimed on Saturday.

A team of Neurosurgeons led by Dr NK Venkataramana, chief neurosurgeon and vice-chairman, BGS Global Hospitals, carried out the complex surgery on Madhu Mallika who sustained the severe brain injury in an accident last year.

“The patient was suffering from altered sensorium, severe cognitive dysfunction and lack of movement in limbs. Following the surgery, she has now regained full consciousness, memory, communication abilities and purposive movements in limbs,” Venkataramana told reporters here.

The patient was admitted in an unconscious state with severe injury and on first examination doctors gave her only 20 percent chances for survival, he claimed.

“It was perplexing that the woman did not show any improvement despite all available treatment in the last one year and ultimately the possibility of stemcell therapy was considered after discussions with her family and it proved successful,” the chief neurosurgeon said.

“This is an eye opener that there is a possibility of reactivating brain cells following injury with very gratifying clinical results. To our knowledge such attempts were made only in China. This is the first attempt in the country and India is the second country in the world to use such therapy,” he said.

Bureau Report

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Airtel joins the netbook revolution

TTB — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:53:20 +0000

Bharti Airtel has now launched a low cost net PC. The Airtel Net PC is being marketed in Airtel and Next stores in india for a cost of Rs7,999. Airtel is not the first entrant in this space. Novatium released a similar service last year making it affordable.

The device bundle is a 15-inch LCD monitor, keyboard and mouse. Storage is based on Cloud servers. The device does not have any optical media and uses Airtel broadband to connect to the Internet.

The device is powered by Microsoft and Nivio Companion. Windows XP has been customized by Nivio and connected to a backend Linux server. The Airtel Net PC comes with an online storage of 10GB. One hundred percent of security of data has been assured. The packages being offered are Home at Rs. 699 per month, Professional at Rs. 899 per month and Business at Rs. 1,199 per month.

Airtel plans to attract One million customers. Another advantage of the device is its low power consumption. Yet the moot point remains if users are willing to accept this kind of a device as a regular PC for their daily tasks. The major disadvantage is the lack of optical media that makes playing of games difficult. Hardware upgrades may not be available and the PC may become outdated very soon.

Airtel

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missing hot chennai summer days and these ….

TTB — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:58:14 +0000

the things i am missing not being in chennai this summer …

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Indian election commision wants your middle finger

TTB — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:09:58 +0000

Isn’t the picture below, of Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan and his wife, marvellously illustrative of our politicians’ attitudes. While that may be partly true, the Chavans aren’t expressing their inner feelings here—they’re showing us that they have voted. The election commission has mandated that in these elections, indelible ink is to be applied to the middle finger of every voter. So if your neighborhood politician asks you if you voted for him, show him the finger.

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