More into the knowledge

Remember the saying fore warned is fore armed.

What the stories suggest in the medical history, a strange fact reveling it self that, many a times we are ignorant enough to not to look at the deficiency in the eye. What we get in result after that is either not discussable or a story told in low voice as a failure story.

What i am talking about is day in day out routine malfunction of our medical system to diagnose and pin point and then treat. Rather we do is seek our senses our own knowledge and based on our previous experiences treat the patient. DO have that far sightedness to see where is the failure, nope. Why because we are accustomed to treating like that and the patients are accustomed to be treated like that.

When a case of brain injury or spinal cord injury comes we send them for an MRI and the MRI's being seen by the doctors who have these abilities to understand them they have to go through lot more things too, i.e. the same doctor have to report X-rays, Ultrasounds, Cat scans, and various other things to be reported, what happens here is that the margin of error is bigger then the margin of the successful reporting or we may call it right reporting too.

Its not any disappointment to the people who are working at the radio diagnosis labs but its a burden they are also carrying with them. To make the things easy there is a team of doctors headed by some of the finest doctors who still work for the society.

The plan i am talking about is that if i get an MRI of brain done in India I will send it to the doctor in US to analyze it on the basis that, that doctor has only got maximum exposure to brain MRI's only i.e. we are talking about zero error technique.

Lets see it from another angle too who is there to be treated, the patient right then lets see what are or what can we do to give him the maximum benefit from. A simple technique by which we can avail the facilities of the utmost specialist doctors to help out the treating physician or the surgeons or the neuro-surgeons or the neuro-physicians. to understand better and to treat better by the help of the diagnostic strategy. Its like remodeling the whole picture where till date people get to know things way past then the controllable scenario in 36 hours or less you can get reported by the best avilable specialist in right another part of the world and may be the whole scene of treatment plan change, by which many valuable lifes can be saved.

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Dr Saurabh Arora
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Dr Rakesh Thapliyal
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Killing for the HONOR

Honor Killing

Hundreds, if not thousands, of women are murdered by their families each year in the name of family "honor." It's difficult to get precise numbers on the phenomenon of honor killing; the murders frequently go unreported, the perpetrators unpunished, and the concept of family honor justifies the act in the eyes of some societies.Most honor killings occur in countries where the concept of women as a vessel of the family reputation predominates, said Marsha Freemen, director of International Women's Rights Action Watch at the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

Reports submitted to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights show that honor killings have occurred in Bangladesh, Great Britain, Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Pakistan, Morocco, Sweden, Turkey, and Uganda. In countries not submitting reports to the UN, the practice was condoned under the rule of the fundamentalist Taliban government in Afghanistan, and has been reported in Iraq and Iran.


But while honor killings have elicited considerable attention and outrage, human rights activists argue that they should be regarded as part of a much larger problem of violence against women.

In India, for example, more than 5,000 brides die annually because their dowries are considered insufficient, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Crimes of passion, which are treated extremely leniently in Latin America, are the same thing with a different name, some rights advocates say.
The Indian continent also has a lot to tell about the honor killing thing,Honor killings, which is the killing of a woman whose actions seem to undermine a family's honor, are usually associated with Pakistan and perhaps Afghanistan. The problem goes much farther, however, and seems to be a serious issue in India as well.
Not just in Punjab and Haryana, but in western Uttar Pradesh as well, women are being put to death if they “violate” the honour of their family and community by marrying a person outside her own caste, community or religion. ... According to Aidwa, 10 per cent of murders in Punjab and Haryana are honour killings. ... Aidwa points out that in cases involving couples from upper castes, there is always an effort to save the young man. “The woman from the same caste, however, will be killed for destroying the honour of the family and community,” the report says. The girl’s death is never reported. “It is as if she never existed,” it adds.

"In countries where Islam is practiced, they're called honor killings, but dowry deaths and so-called crimes of passion have a similar dynamic in that the women are killed by male family members and the crimes are perceived as excusable or understandable," said Widney Brown, advocacy director for Human Rights Watch.

The practice, she said, "goes across cultures and across religions."

Complicity by other women in the family and the community strengthens the concept of women as property and the perception that violence against family members is a family and not a judicial issue.

"Females in the family—mothers, mothers-in-law, sisters, and cousins—frequently support the attacks. It's a community mentality," said Zaynab Nawaz, a program assistant for women's human rights at Amnesty International.

Is it easy to perform KILLING in INDIA

A BBC investigation has uncovered the deadly practice of British Asians travelling to India to hire contract killers. Family and business associates, who are lured to the sub-continent, are often the targets.

In a country where murder is cheaper and less fraught with risk, the perpetrators of these crimes are rarely brought to justice. Campaigners in both India and the UK believe this to have claimed the lives of hundreds of victims over several years. These armchair murder plots are hatched in the living rooms of Britain and executed mainly in the rural Indian state of Punjab.

In a remote village, surrounded by lush green fields, a rickety ox-drawn cart trundles along the dusty lane. It is here that a British woman, who was on holiday with her husband visiting relatives, was killed - the apparent victim of a hit-and-run accident. But her relatives in India suspect foul play.

"Her husband wanted to re-marry. He told her to leave him - she said, 'I'll die but I won't let him go'," her mother revealed. She was one of the first to arrive on the scene. "They beat her up. They dumped her in the ditch and made it look like an accident. They wanted to show it like an accident. There was no blood, no car and no tyre marks."Despite a lengthy police investigation, charges are yet to be brought against the suspects in India. For legal reasons, we can not name the victim or her family. Her killing bears striking similarity to that of another British woman, Surjit Athwal.

The 26-year-old mother of two disappeared in Punjab in 1998. Two years ago, a British court found her mother-in-law and husband guilty of arranging her murder. They had hired criminals in India to kill her. She was strangled and her body dumped in a river. Her brother, Jagdeesh Singh, now campaigns for other victims' families. "I think Surjit's case exposed for the first time in this country overseas outsourced killings. How the Punjabi community, settled in Britain, send their females back to the land of origin, in the full knowledge that they can have them murdered easily, swiftly and efficiently.

It is not only women that are lured abroad to be killed in these types of murders. Raju, not his real name, recalls his brother's death during a visit to their ancestral village in Punjab. "He was found on the floor, with a bullet in the head. We have evidence to suggest the murder was arranged by his wife and her lover. We believe the motive was to fraudulently claim insurance money." So how easy is it for British Asians to outsource murder?According to Indian journalist, Neelam Raaj, finding a person to carry out the killing is simple. "The person who's taking the contract would just be a small-time criminal. He's usually a goon in the village." In India, murder is cheap, with hired assassins paid up to $800 (£500).

Formerly, the modus operandi was a drive-by shooting, now it is likely to be a staged road accident. And it appears there are few risks. In the bustling city of Ludhiana, Jassi Khangura juggles life as a successful entrepreneur with a career in Indian politics. He used to be a businessman in London, now he is an elected representative for the ruling Congress party in the Punjab legislative assembly. "What we have in Punjab - and in many other states of India - is a criminal nexus that takes place between the police, the politicians and the criminals. That nexus gives the Indians that live in the UK a large degree of cover. "Even if they're identified as the perpetrators of the crime, they're given a considerable degree of protection and that means they never get charged." He alleges police corruption in the state is responsible for a trend which he believes claims the lives of up to a 100 overseas Indians a year.
MISSING
But in the manicured grounds of his colonial-style villa in Punjab's capital, Chandigarh, inspector general of police for Jalandhar district Sanjiv Kalra says the figures are exaggerated and denies his force is riddled with corruption. "From my experience, these kinds of things are more talked about than they are actually present on the ground," he said.

However, for many victims' families the search for justice in India is elusive. They are now turning to the authorities in the UK for help. British detectives are increasingly being called in to solve these murders. Commander Steve Allen of the Metropolitan Police Service has this stark warning.

"We have increased our knowledge of and our confidence in dealing with murders of British citizens overseas. We will follow you, we will pursue the evidence and we will bring you to justice wherever in the world you commit these offences." Meanwhile, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office says it is currently aware of six British nationals who have gone missing in the Delhi and Punjab area.

The Bionic suit

For defence


For lifting heavy objects



For decaying and disabled
Restoring walking ability, and improving the ability of the weak and debelitating people.
Boon yet in stages of finer development

These ROBOT suit are been developed that could help older people or those with disabilities to walk or lift heavy objects.

Dubbed H A L, or hybrid assistive limb, the latest versions of the suit will be unveiled this June at the 2005 World Expo in Aichi.

HAL is the result of 10 years' work by Yoshiyuki Sankai of the University of Tsukuba in Japan, and integrates mechanics, electronics, bionics and robotics in a new field known as cybernics. The most fully developed prototype, HAL 3, is a motor-driven metal "exoskeleton" that you strap onto your legs to power-assist leg movements. A backpack holds a computer with a wireless network connection, and the batteries are on a belt.

Two control systems interact to help the wearer stand, walk and climb stairs. A "bio-cybernic" system uses bioelectric sensors attached to the skin on the legs to monitor signals transmitted from the brain to the muscles. It can do this because when someone intends to stand or walk, the nerve signal to the muscles generates a detectable electric current on the skin's surface. These currents are picked up by the sensors and sent to the computer, which translates the nerve signals into signals of its own for controlling electric motors at the hips and knees of the exoskeleton. It takes a fraction of a second for the motors to respond accordingly, and in fact they respond fractionally faster to the original signal from the brain than the wearer's muscles do

While the bio-cybernic system moves individual elements of the exoskeleton, a second system provides autonomous robotic control of the motors to coordinate these movements and make a task easier overall, helping someone to walk, for instance. The system activates itself automatically once the user starts to move. The first time they walk, its sensors record posture and pattern of motion, and this information is stored in an onboard database for later use. When the user walks again, sensors alert the computer, which recognises the movement and regenerates the stored pattern to provide power-assisted movement. The actions of both systems can be calibrated according to a particular user's needs, for instance to give extra assistance to a weaker limb.

The HAL 4 and HAL 5 prototypes, which will also be demonstrated at Expo 2005, don't just help a person to walk. They have an upper part to assist the arms, and will help a person lift up to 40 kilograms more than they can manage unaided. The new HALs will also eliminate the need for a backpack. Instead, the computer and wireless connection have been shrunk to fit in a pouch attached to the suit's belt. HAL 5 also has smaller motor housings, making the suit much less bulky around the hips and knees.

HAL 3 weighs 22 kilograms, but the help it gives the user is more than enough to compensate for this. "It's like riding on a robot, rather than wearing one," says Sankai. He adds that HAL 4 will weigh 17 kilograms, and he hopes HAL 5 may be lighter still.

Sankai has had many requests for the devices from people with brain and spinal injuries, so he is planning to extend the suit's applications to include medical rehabilitation. The first commercial
suits are likely to cost between 1.5 and 2 million yen ($14,000 to $19,000).