Friday, January 1, 2010

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING JOBS AT BANGLORE

Experience: 3 – 8 Years Location: Bengaluru/Bangalore Compensation: As per hospital standards Education: UG – B.Tech/B.E. – Biomedical PG – M.Tech – Biomedical Industry Type: Medical/ Healthcare/Hospital Role: Lab Technician/Medical Technician/Lab Staff Functional Area: Healthcare, Medical, R&D

Job Description

To maintain the Bio medical equipments and other equipments of the hospital Desired Candidate Profile To maintain,Service,calibrate all the equipment in the hospital Company Profile A premier healthcare provider in bangalore city

Contact Details

Company Name: Mallige Medical Center Website: http://www.mallige.com Executive Name: Administrator Address: No.31/32 Nr To Bangalore Internet,Crescent Road BANGALORE,Karnataka,India 560001 Email Address: jobs@mallige.com Telephone: 80-91-22203333 SOURCE
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My Funniest Christmas Pressie Yet! A "Dysgraphia Pen!"

You wouldn’t necessarily think such a thing would exist, would you? Well, okay.  Such a thing doesn’t.  Unless you consider every pen that I own, and will ever touch in my entire lifetime! *laughing* No, that is just what I called it: “My Dysgraphia Pen!”

If you don’t know what Dysgraphia is, what it boils down to is a difficulty, to some degree, regarding one’s ability to write.  You can also have other problems with fine motor skills, but not always.  I do to some degree there, as well.

I have Asperger’s and it is quite commonly associated with that Developmental Disorder, and with the other various Disorders on the Autistic Spectrum.  However, it is not limited to the Autistic Spectrum alone.  It can also be tied to AD(H)D, plus more.  I have been dx’d with ADD, too.  Inattentive Type!

My Dysgraphia? I reverse letters, numbers…sometimes my writing will become less legible, even if I do manage to get the letters and numbers in their correct order.  It’s very frustrating, and I have to concentrate a fair bit if I need to write something down that absolutely needs to be legible! Even if it’s something, perhaps less important, I may be forced to give up and just leave it “as is,” with several scratched out words on the page!

Embarrassing.

I also write in Block Caps.  Much easier for the entire world to decipher what I am trying to relay.  That way, people hopefully won’t have to spend twice as many hours “de-coding” my missives.

So, my pressie? I got it from my friend J.  He knows about my Dysgraphia.  We both even call me, “Dysgraphia Girl.” *rolls eyes*  That said, boy did he get a chuckle out of this pressie! It wasn’t even for him!

Oh, wow.  I’m actually smirking as I type this.  It’s a plastic, battery operated, “vibrating” pen.  I know, naughty jokes all around!!!

It has several, little (also plastic), pen nibs in different colours.  You pop them into a hole at the bottom of the pen, and when you write, everything comes out all “squiggly!” I was just dying when I was trying to use it!

And…  It’s also kind of stimmy! There’s a clear bubble on top with an orange disc inside.  It spins like nuts when you turn it on! WHOO!

J. knows me far too well.  In fact, while I was there? I was getting a bit stimmy, so I grabbed one of my Tangles®. What did J. say to me?

“Stimmy, Stimmy, Stimmy.  Tangle, Tangle, Tangle.”

I just looked at him and said, “Yep.” *laughing*

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The Top 10 Medical Advances of the Decade

ABC News, in collaboration with MedPage Today, reached out to more More than 125 experts in various fields and specialties responded.

Their suggestions were then sent to the American Association for the History of Medicine, which narrowed the pool down to an authoritative list of 10 medical advances this decade that have had the most impact.

Source:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Decade/genome-hormones-top-10-medical-advances-decade/story?id=9356853

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Poem-VTMNC

“VTMNC”

They call me violent, with ideology in a suicidal manner…but that’s not me, I’m not that good a planner.

But I will take credit for the massacres to follow.

I will take credit

For the tip of silver’s hollow.

I will take credit

For my uncanny persistence

If in the end it means

I had some sort of existence.

I will take credit

For coming to your doorstep

I will take credit

For completing their silence while every neighbor slept.

I will take credit

for living life in truth for me

I will take credit

for draining yours of it’s lavish sea.

Your treasure’s mine for the taking

whether you like it or not

And my brittle, arthritic hands

are all I’ve got.

So make way for the handicapped,

’cause I’m wheeling through

Your laughter and smug smile

are all I needed to…

-M. Detelj 09

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Monday, December 28, 2009

A Need For Cheaper Medicine

A Need For Cheaper Medicine

Author: sean sandvik

People are becoming more and more practical in the way they spend money. We always try to look for ways to save as much money as we can. This is the reason why there are stores coming out left and right selling clothes at discounted prices, fast food chains being set up selling huge servings of food at low prices as compared to home-cooked meals, and most recently drugstores setting up shop on the Internet selling prescription medications at very cheap prices. But are they safe?

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A lot of people want to know where to buy cheap medicine online. Senior citizens need it because most health care plans do not cover the cost of medication. People who live in tight budget could use the savings to help them with other expenses. In both cases, the extra money saved in the cost of the prescription will help them a lot.

But with the thousands of Internet pharmacies currently in operation, how can you distinguish a good online drugstore from a bad one. Here are some things to watch out for:

· A good Internet-based drugstore is licensed by your local pharmacy board to operate in and/or sell medications to your state. Every pharmacy, be it land-based or on the web, needs to be inspected and certified by the local board before they can start selling medicines.
· A legal pharmacy doing business in the World Wide Web should be accredited by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy or NABP. This means that they have passed the organization’s inspection and have met the necessary standards required from an online drugstore. Also, being accredited by the NABP means that the web-based drugstore company is a part of the Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Sites or VIPPS.
· An honest Internet pharmacy should ask you for a proper prescription before they sell you medications. This is in accordance to pharmacy policies that prescription drugs can only be dispensed to people with prescription notes. The prescription note serves as a confirmation that a buyer had sought the consult of a physician and was indeed endorsed to take the prescription drug he wants to buy.
· In cases of online pharmacies that do not require a prescription note, some of them offer an online consultation service with a licensed doctor through voice chatting and webcam. This is beneficial to people who are unable to leave home to see a doctor. But customers must be cautious in dealing with web-based drugstores that offer to sell prescription medicines without requiring a prescription or offering a consult service, this may be an indication that the drugstore company is illegal.
· An Internet drugstore that does not hide anything from its consumers will not hide its stand on protecting your privacy. Look for an online pharmacy that has a clear privacy procedure to protect all the information you submit to their website.

To protect your privacy and your health, do not make transactions with online pharmacy websites that you feel are suspicious. Contact your local pharmacy board to report these kinds of companies to protect your rights as a consumer.

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Friday, December 25, 2009

Health insurance in Canada

My prediction for 2010 is that if Americans get universal medicare, those now without coverage will love it. If they ever edge out the profit-making, paperwork-generating, coverage-denying schemes of the insurance companies and provide not-for-profit universal medicare, most people will love it. As the BBC pointed out last night, unlike most other developed countries, the U.S. does not have health care for everyone, and despite spending twice as much per capita as those other countries, it still leaves 47,000,000 people uncovered.

To get an idea of what healthcare coverage is like in other countries, check out the tone and the coverage rules in Canada:

  • Health Care in Canada
    • Medicare in Canada
  • Health Canada
    • Provincial/Territorial Role in Health

      Provincial/Territorial health ministries and health insurance:

      • Newfoundland & Labrador Health & Community Services
        • Newfoundland & Labrador Medical Care Plan
        • Newfoundland & Labrador Prescription Drug Plan
      • Prince Edward Island Department of Health
        • PEI Health Card
      • Nova Scotia Department of Health
        • Nova Scotia Health Card (MSI=Medical Services Insurance)
      • New Brunswick Department of Health
        • New Brunswick Medicare Card
      • Santé et Services Sociaux Québec (English)
        • Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec
      • Manitoba Health
        • Health Care Coverage in Manitoba
      • Saskatchewan Health
        • Health Benefits in Saskatchewan
      • Alberta Health & Wellness
        • Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan
      • British Columbia Ministry of Health Services
        • Health Insurance B.C.
      • Yukon Health & Social Services
        • Yukon Health Card
      • Northwest Territories Department of Health & Social Services
        • NWT Health Care Plan
      • Nunavut Health & Social Services
        • Public Health Nunavut (seems to piggyback on NWT services)
      • Ontario Ministry of Health & Long-term Care
      • Ontario Health Insurance Plan

      Supplemental insurance, drug plans

      • Blue Cross insurance (supplemental coverage, works with provinces)

      For over 65 years, Ontario Blue Cross has focused on providing health and safety to Ontario residents.

      In 1941, the Ontario Hospital Service Association introduced the Blue Cross name in Ontario. The goal was to finance the hospitals by supplying individuals with reasonably priced health care services through a prepayment system. It was an immense success.

      The OHA was eager to see a universal hospital insurance program in place and laid the foundations for the plan that eventually became government run. In 1959, the Government of Ontario launched the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan. 600 Blue Cross employees as well as most of its top management team moved over to help guide in the plans development. Literally overnight, 90% of Blue Cross employees became government employees as they helped launch the new plan.

      The creation of the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) led Blue Cross to modify its coverage to complement the public plan. Following the successful transition from primary to supplementary provider, Ontario Blue Cross developed other health care plans to provide coverage for Extended Health Care benefits including prescription drugs, dental, wheelchair coverage, nursing care, eyeglasses, hearing aid coverage and more.

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      Wednesday, December 23, 2009

      Serious science: Ooo look, that goat fell over!

      I’m currently trying to take advantage of my two week break and learn all the material I should have learnt last term. It’s not going as well as I hoped.

      Today was the turn of how muscles worked, and in particular I got going on how action potentials trigger muscle contraction. As with just about everything in physiology, it’s down to ion channels, far too many to mention. In this particular case, the handout refers to those responsible for allowing a current of chloride ions across the membrane, and how if they are absent or malfunctioning, you get a condition called myotonia congenita.

      Being the inquisitive sod I am, my choice was between getting up and walking across the landing to dig out the Bible, or look on wikipedia. So I went for the lazy man option. And came across this video illustrating the condition. Isn’t science great?

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