WHO : Tobacco industry interference is the theme of this year’s World No Tobacco Day, which takes place on 31 May 2012.

The campaign will focus on the need to expose and counter the tobacco industry's brazen and increasingly aggressive attempts to undermine global tobacco control efforts.

World Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Day : 30 th May 

 AIIMS  to set up Multiple Sclerosis database -The All India Medical Institute of Sciences (AIIMS) will  set up a national registry for multiple sclerosis (MS), a rare autoimmune disease,that affects the brain and spinal cord. ”The neurology centre at AIIMS  is seeing more MS patients residing in tier I and tier II cities from across the country. Therefore efforts are being made to collate the data and understand the disease from an Indian perspective.

Read more: health.india.com

Attributes of knowledge

There are various attributes (characteristics) to knowledge.According to Holsapple, “An attribute is a dimension along which different instances of knowledge can vary. In any particular instance, the knowledge being studied or used can have multiple attributes…An appreciation of multiple knowledge attributes enriches one’s understanding of knowledge resources and their processing… Attributes do not tell us what knowledge is or what knowledge resources exist.They do, however, help us to understand the many qualities of knowledge.

Read more:Knowledge management

TOI article: Trying too hard could trigger rare illness

It is about Chronic fatigue syndrome that refers to severe, continued tiredness  which may lead to Brain- fogging.

Read more about Chronic fatigue syndrome at : PubMed Health 

Nobel Prize

Frederick Sanger is the only Nobel Laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, in 1958 and 1980.

In the year 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath for having showed what the ribosome looks like and how it functions at the atomic level. All three have used a method called X-ray crystallography to map the position for each and every one of the hundreds of thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome.

Source:Nobelprize.org

Doctor NDTV has expert doctors on its panel for leading India towards better health 

To know more visit : http://doctor.ndtv.com/

The Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER)

Strategic Plan

Mission

The mission of FAIMER is to support the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) as it promotes medical education through programmatic and research activities.

Vision

• To create and enhance educational resources for those who teach physicians committed to improving and maintaining the health of the communities they serve.
• To investigate and understand the educational experiences and migration patterns of international medical graduates and to determine their impact on population health.
• To be the best source of information on international medical education.

Google Introducing the Knowledge Graph

When you search, you’re not just looking for a webpage. You’re looking to get answers, understand concepts and explore.The next frontier in search is to understand real-world things and the relationships among them. So we're building a Knowledge Graph: a huge collection of the people, places and things in the world and how they're connected to one another.
Read more:http://www.google.com/insidesearch/

World Red Cross Day- 8th May

Find a message delivered by Dr. S P Agarwal, Secretary General, Indian Red Cross Society on this occassion - http://www.indianredcross.org/world-redcross-day-2012.jpg

NIH LinkOut Service

LinkOut provide  links to various other Web-accessible resources from PubMed database .
Various Institures/ libraries have supplied links to their  resources from specific citations or biological data in PubMed and the other Entrez databases.

In India many institutes like Christian Medical College, National Institute of Malaria Research, Regional Cancer Cente, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Research have given their links at LinkOut.

To find out more read: LinkOut

Fibromyalgia syndrome is a common and chronic disorder characterized by widespread pain, diffuse tenderness, and a number of other symptoms. The word “fibromyalgia” comes from the Latin term for fibrous tissue (fibro) and the Greek ones for muscle (myo) and pain (algia).

Read more about fibromyalgia at: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)