Pacetronix to diversify into implantable devices.
KOLKATA: Pacetronix, the sole Indian maker of pacemakers, has decided to venture into other specialty implantable medical devices. The company is working closely with several partners, including Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to sell implantable cardio-defibrillators, titanium dental implant and cochlear implants....

Assessment of patient satisfaction with various configurations of digital CROS and BiCROS hearing aids.
Abstract We conducted a study of 91 patients with severe-to-profound asymmetric hearing loss to assess their satisfaction with digital contralateral routing of signal (CROS) or bilateral contralateral routing of signal (BiCROS) hearing aids. Satisfaction was evaluated on the basis of the number of patients who elected to...

NRI docs to do a 'Swades'.
NEW DELHI: It's the real life version of Swades. As part of a pilot project, Indian doctors from the US, under the aegis of American Association of Physicians of Indian origin, will provide healthcare and training in Andhra Pradesh and Bihar. AAPI will be working in conjunction...

Straight Answers.
Byline: ROSHNI MUKHERJEE Astad Deboo Dance virtuoso on the many forms of dance and his genre of performance. 'I don't like to be the flavour of the month' What is Contraposition all about? I have explored the navarasas. The performance is...

Factores maternos y perinatales asociados a hipoacusia. Serie de casos.
Maternal and perinatal factors associated with hypoacusia. A series of cases. RESUMEN Introducción: la hipoacusia constituye un importante problema de salud pública, debido a su repercusión sobre el desarrollo emocional, cognitivo y social del niño. Objetivo: determinar factores maternos y perinatales asociados a...

Columbia Bank Announces Promotion of Barbara Johannesson to Senior Vice President.
TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Columbia Bank announced that Vice President and Bellevue Private Banking Manager, Barbara Johannesson, has been promoted to Senior Vice President. "Barbara's leadership in guiding the Bellevue Private Banking office for the last five years has made a meaningful contribution to Columbia...

Controversy over ban on iodised salt.
Byline: Madhavi Rajadhyaksha MUMBAI: Non-iodised salt is in the news once again following the Union health ministry's bid to ban it from August 15. While salt manufacturers have been given two months to take necessary action, city doctors are fighting hard to keep the common...

Noise pollution could get you too.
Byline: Chandrika Mago NEW DELHI: Walkmans can be dangerous to your child's health. Teach children to keep the volume low and not to use the walkman continuously for hours each day to prevent hearing loss, say experts who are beginning to see the cumulative effects of noise...

Well Seth.
Byline: Priya Bala Vikram Seth tells us the intensely private activity of writing and everything else 'that's outside the book'. We meet the writer on a perfect Bangalore morning. He's in his hotel room worrying about whether his shirts will be done before he takes...

A, be, see.
'THERE IS no way to peace,' Mahatma Gandhi declared. 'Peace is the way.' More enigmatically, English poet TS Eliot wrote, 'In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not!' In Australia, social activist and Christian writer...