New age healer of all maladies

Science & Technology
Dr Ahmed J Ansari is a new age healer, who with his revolutionising techniques and equipment, has given a new dimension to alternative healing. (Photo: Sudhakar Jain)
Dr Ahmed J Ansari is a new age healer, who with his revolutionising techniques and equipment, has given a new dimension to alternative healing. (Photo: Sudhakar Jain)

Holistic healing follows the alternative medicine route and Dr Ahmed J Ansari from Bangalore has been a leading light for several years with his Pristine Natural Health Centre.

Ansari never asks his patients to stop their allopathic drugs; all he wants is for them to be open to other therapies and a strong desire to be cured. An ardent practitioner of Baha’i, Ansari’s caring and compassionate nature perhaps bolsters the treatments he offers at his clinic.

Pristine offers painless and non-invasive therapies for orthopaedic ailments. Ansari’s team of orthopaedic surgeons use the two tonne massive DRX 9000, imported from NASA, US. It’s indeed space-age cure for back pain. It is used to correct slipped disc (spondylosis), of the neck and lower back. Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), this treatment has proved to be economical and has a noteworthy success rate with low incidence of recurrence. The treatment takes 20 to 30 days and needs 30 to 45 minutes session every day. The DRX9000 gradually relives nerve compression by applying pressure to the affected areas. The treatment enlarges the space around the disc, strengthens spinal ligaments and keeps the lower spine properly aligned.

From space-age cure to molecular therapy, Pristine is path-breaking in its approach. Ozone therapy is another popular and safe therapy at Pristine. Ozone is one of the most potent purifiers of water and more than a hundred major cities in Europe have been using ozone for over a century.

There are different routes of entry of Ozone (O3) to the body—intravenous infusion, drinking ozonized water, through skin with ozone water bath and ozone injections to joints. “Having treated hundreds of patients since the last decade, we have not found a single patient developing any form of allergy or complication to it,” says the doctor.

In an age when the atmosphere is laden with toxic stuff, Chelation is emerging as a popular therapy. The water from gouging the earth is contaminated with toxic, heavy metals. The vegetables that we ingest are full of poisonous heavy metals. Even the air we breathe is laden with these heavy metals emitted from factories. These heavy metals invade the organs of our bodies and binds with the tissues, including our arteries, thereby hardening them. This hardening affects the efficiency of arteries, resulting in deterioration of the organ’s functions.

“We, at our centre, administer EDTA (Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) that is used to chelate heavy metals from the body. Chelation therapy helps eliminate and reduce heavy metal toxicity, aiding in the pooling of blood to different organs and leading to healthier functioning of organs. EDTA also helps to reduce blood cholesterol levels,” says Ansari. He adds, “Since EDTA is so effective at removing unwanted minerals and metals from the blood it has been the standard FDA approved treatment for lead, mercury, aluminum and cadium poisoning for more than 50 years.”

Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) therapy is a relatively new treatment designed to aid in the healing and regeneration of orthopaedic soft tissues in injuries of muscles, tendons and ligaments. Of late it is used in cartilage injuries, defects and arthritis. Any injured, inflamed or degenerated area in the body needs good blood flow to repair or regenerate the damaged tissue. Blood flow to the area increases to aid in healing.  The blood carries platelets and growth factors that allow for healing of the tissue by creating new matrix of the respective soft tissue.

In PRP the patient’s blood is taken with a simple blood draw. Using a special centrifuge machine this blood is spun down to separate out and concentrate the platelets and growth factors that are essential for tissue healing. This small amount of fluid with concentrated platelets and growth factors is called platelet rich plasma (PRP).  Nothing else is added to the patient’s blood so there is no risk of allergy, reaction or rejection. PRP therapy is a purely natural process using the body’s own healing factors.

Once these platelets and growth factors are in the area of injury, they become activated.  They also recruit other healing proteins and factors to the area and healing and regeneration of the tissue begins.

“PRP therapy is an option for two different patient populations. One is the patient with chronic injury that never seems to go away.  The other is the patient with an acute injury, which might otherwise take 8-12 weeks to heal and is looking to do something to speed up recovery.  That is why PRP has become popular among athletes and those with sports injuries,” signs off the doctor.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> LifeStyle> Health / by Sangeeta Cavale Radhakrishna / July 07th, 2013

Retired employee displays rare collection of Butterfly stamps

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Top : Hanumantha Nayaka displaying his collection. Bottom :Children taking a look at the rare stamps on display.
Top : Hanumantha Nayaka displaying his collection.
Bottom :Children taking a look at the rare stamps on display.

It a universally accepted truth that each and every person has his own hobbies. Some excel in public life through their hobbies and one such person is retired Government employee K.M. Hanumantha Nayaka, who had put up eye-catching butterfly stamps on display at Ideal Jawa Rotary School on JLB road under the aegis of Mysore Philatelic Association and Numismatics Society in city yesterday.

Seventy-one-year-old Hanumantha Nayaka, a retired clerk at Maharaja’s PU College, took to collecting stamps at the age of 14 and has so far collected stamps issued exclusively in honour of butterflies by countries like United States of America, Brazil, Australia and England.

Speaking to Star of Mysore, he said butterflies were magnificent creatures which are necessary for the ecological equilibrium in nature and are very important for pollination and added that butterflies play an important role in the reproduction of plants.

Hanumantha Nayaka said that he does not organise exhibitions to win awards or for money and added that he organ- ised exhibitions at various schools to spread awareness about Philately.

Ravindra Kumar, Director, Mysore Philatelic Association and Numismatics Society, said stamps were being printed in 215 countries in the world which is related to almost all subjects and added that many persons in city were involved in its collection.

He further said having more than 1 lakh stamps was not a big issue, but the quality of stamps and its importance was essential in grading its value.

Ravindra Kumar said that Hanumantha Nayaka after retirement indulged himself in collection of various stamps which is an achievement and added that Hanumantha Nayaka has involved himself fully in the same.

It is to be appreciated that though Hanumantha Nayaka is 71 years of age, the enthusiasm he shows in stamp collection is of a 20-year-old.

These rare stamps will be on display on the first and third Sunday of every month.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / June 08th, 2013

Mangalore: Hungarian Dr Alexandra Szoke enchants city with Bharatanatyam

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Mangalore :

It was an evening of enchanting display of beauty blended with grace and breathtaking talent, as Dr Alexandra Szoke from Hungary performed Bharatanatyam for first time in the city on Saturday June 22.

The programme was organized by Sanatana Natyalaya dance academy at its auditorium in Ballal Bagh here.

Dr Szoke, with just one year of training in Bharatanatyam, captured the audience attention with her stunning performance. The members in the audience appreciated the fact that an Indian classical dance had been mastered by a Hungarian and executed with such elan.

Dr Szoke and her husband Ian Cook have made the city their second home ever since they came here 18 months ago on research work. She was impressed with Bharatanatyam and learnt the art form under the tutelage of Sharadamani Shekar.

As a mark of respect and gratitude, Dr Szoke honoured her tutor Sharadamani Shekar on the occasion, and also Muralidhar Rao who was tutor of Sharadamani. Dr Szoke and her husband too were felicitated.

Dr Chinnappa Gowda, Mangalore University registrar spoke on the occasion and lauded Dr Szoke for showing immense interest in the art and mastering it in such a short period of time. He further said that she was an inspiration to youngsters in India.

Dr Szoke in her address thanked all those who helped her achieve her goal, especially her tutor Sharadmani Shekar, Sanatana Natyalaya for giving her an opportunity to learn the dance and perform, and Radhika Shetty, founder of Nrityaangan Charitable Trust and performing artiste in India and the USA who helped her along the way.

Srilatha Nagaraj compered the programme. Dr Szoke’s husband Ian Cook was present.

source: http://www.daijiworld.com / DaijiWorld.com / Home> Top Stories / by DaijiWorld Media Network – Mangalore / Sunday, June 23rd, 2013

Daughter of Pourakarmika bags 5 gold medals and 2 cash prizes

Education, Inspiration/ Positive News and Features, Records, All
Caption: 1) Jyoti Rangaswamy 2) Anjali
Caption: 1) Jyoti Rangaswamy 2) Anjali

Mysore :

Braving all odds, Jyoti Rangaswamy, wife of Rangaswamy, a resident of B.B. Keri on Pulakeshi Road and daughter of Pourakarmika couple Armugam and Parvathi, has bagged 5 gold medals and 2 cash prizes in the Mysore University Convocation held on Friday.

Jyoti Rangaswamy achieved the feat by topping in MA (Economics) .

Jyoti is said to be the first from the Pourakarmika community to achieve this feat, thus bringing glory to her family and as well as to the Economics Department of the University.

Jyoti now intends to pursue doctorate degree and make a career in teaching.

Bags gold in B.Sc

Anjali, a B.Sc student of St. Philomena’s College in city, has secured Annapoorna Kamath Memorial Gold Medal at the Mysore University Convocation held at Crawford Hall here on July 5. She is the daughter of C. Pradeep Kumar and Sheetal Goel, residents of Sri Shivarathreeshwara Nagar, Bannimantap ‘B’ Layout.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / July 07th, 2013

MMC alumnus honoured in US

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Mysore : 

Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., America’s trusted source for identifying top doctors, has selected Maywood’s Psychiatry specialist Dr. Murali Rao, an alumnus of Mysore Medical College (MMC) in city, for inclusion in its highly selective list of Regional Top Doctors this year.

Dr. Murali Rao, MD, FAPM, DFAPA, is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences at the Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago.

Castle Connolly Top Doctors are selected by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. after being nominated by peer physicians in an online nomination process.

Nominations are open to all board certified MDs and DOs and each year tens of thousands of doctors cast many tens of thousands of nominations.

The honourees are selected from the nominees by the Castle Connolly physician-led research team based on criteria including their medical education, training, hospital appointments, disciplinary histories and more.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / July 06th, 2013

Non-stop dance in city to enter Guinness record

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Mysore :

Chandrakumar Nayak, a Second Division clerk at Forest Department, Ramanagar, is on a mission to enter Guinness Book of World Records by dancing for 15 days non-stop.

Chandrakumar, who started his record attempt in Mysore on a stage erected next to the Palace Anjaneyaswamy Temple on Wednesday, aims to dance continuously for 15 days, during which he takes 15 minutes break once in 8 hours and resumes his dance. A native of Kanakapura, Chandrakumar has donned the Lord Shiva costume and has been dancing to different songs which are composed on Lord Shiva.

Earlier, Chandrakumar had attempted similar record twice by dancing continuously for a week. He will be sending the recorded CD to the Guinness Record officials after completing the attempt.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / July 05th, 2013

Their song aims to motivate women

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Inspiration/ Positive News and Features

Hubli :

Protests? Writing on women  empowerment? These are passe. Two musicians in Hubli chose to be different. Neill Braganza and Akshay Nagmule are trying to encourage women and instil confidence in them through their inspirational song ‘Adhira’ (fearless) based on women empowerment. The song is not only meant to motivate women but also a wake up call to officials to check atrocities on women.

What motivated them to write this song? Said Akshay Nagmule: ”We hadn’t met a common friend for three years. We went to see him. We were shocked to learn that his sister was raped. We met her. She stopped going to college and sank into depression. We tried our best to cheer her and boost her confidence but she showed no sign of returning to normal life. This incident made me compose this song which can motivate depressed women into leading a life with dignity.”

Akshay said: ”Neill and I worked on the song. While I wrote the lyrics, he tuned it. I sung it before my friend’s sister several times. After listening to it, she slowly started putting her life back on track. Now, she has decided to go college.”

Neill Braganza said we should begin by educating the children in schools on how important it is to respect the girl child. We feel good to see women standing up for their rights and shining in all sectors. We thought this song might be the powerful medium to convey our ideas. As we are passionate about music, we have composed this song and dedicated it to our friend’s sister,” he said.

The song is composed in Hindi to reach out to more people. The song has received a good response as it has been uploaded online. There are plans to translate the song into Kannada. Akshay and Neill are taking this song to big cities.

Song of courage

Khogayi hai teri jeene ki tamanna….(the first line)

(the last stanza)… Mat reh udaas…

Haan haq hai tujhe jeene ki apni ye puri zindagi

Tera haq tujhse koi nahi cheen sakta

Kyun ki tu hai… Adhira!

(You have lost the will to live … don’t be sad… you have the right to live, no one can snatch away your right, because you are fearless).

source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Hubli / by Mallikarjun Hiremath / TNN / June 18th, 2013

New Police Comr. takes charge

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Outgoing City Police Commissioner K.L. Sudheer is seen handing over the baton to Dr. M.A. Saleem, who assumed charge as the new Police Commissioner at the Commissioner’s office in Nazarbad this morning. DCPs Basavaraj Malagathi (extreme left), K.P. Bheemaiah and Prabhashankar are also seen.
Outgoing City Police Commissioner K.L. Sudheer is seen handing over the baton to Dr. M.A. Saleem, who assumed charge as the new Police Commissioner at the Commissioner’s office in Nazarbad this morning. DCPs Basavaraj Malagathi (extreme left), K.P. Bheemaiah and Prabhashankar are also seen.

Mysore :

Emphasises on accountability, transparency and responsibility among the Police; Assures efficient traffic management

“Accountability, transparency and responsibility will be strictly enforced among the Police personnel of the city to make them more people-friendly,” said City Police Commissioner Dr. Mohammed Abdullah Saleem, who assumed charge this morning from his predecessor K.L. Sudheer, who has been posted as Additional Director of Fire Services at Bangalore.

Dr. M.A. Saleem, who has obtained Ph.D in Traffic Management and was serving as Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic and Security) in Bangalore, said that traffic problem is not limited to Mysore city alone but is global, because of the rise in population and increase in number of vehicles.

Dr. Saleem, who has undergone a training course in Traffic Management in the US, assured of streamlining the city’s traffic system using the existing infrastructure, after studying the existing system and then holding discussions with the elected representatives, government organisations and NGOs.

Recalling that he had served as the DCP in Mysore city for nine months during 1997-98, the new Police Commissioner said that a lot of changes have taken place since then. I will study the priorities for policing here and then implement schemes if required.

Sudheer thanks efficient colleagues, alert media and co-operative citizenry: Outgoing Commissioner Sudheer, who had served here for one and a half years, said that he could serve Mysore successfully because of the efficient Police personnel, alert media and a co-operative citizenry.

“People of Mysore are very peace-loving; hence we were able to implement ‘people-friendly policing’ in city. The successful conduct of Dasara and other events requiring elaborate Police security is because of the people’s co-operation,” he said.

DCPs Basavaraj Malagathi, K.P. Bheemaiah and Prabhashankar, all ACPs and Inspectors were present.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / July 03rd, 2013

World’s first cross-border Silicon Valley-Bangalore hackathon zeroes in on collaboration

Business & Economy, Science & Technology, World Opinion

Bangalore and Silicon Valley are set to simultaneously host their first joint hackathon, which will see over 200 developers working together to create new collaboration applications.

The two-day hack fest that links Silicon Valley and Bangalore is aimed at creating a new generation of open and innovative collaboration tools.

According to the Enterprise Innovation, these tolls will be built over new open APIs (application programming interface), including WebRTC.

Tata Communications  announced it would sponsor the ‘Future of Collaboration’ hackathon by providing 75,000 dollars in cash and prizes.

Tata said that by crowd sourcing the best minds across California and India , the hackathon provides a gateway to rapidly develop, prototype and innovate applications using new web standards to address everyday collaboration challenges, the report added.

source: http://www.business-standard.com / Business Standard / Home> News-ANI> Business / ANI / New Delhi – June 24th, 2013

Biocon rides growth wave on diversification

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Biopharma company Biocon is seeing increasing demand for its contract research services in allied areas such as agrochemicals, petrochemicals, and even electronics — into which it has recently expanded — as an offshoot of its core biopharmeceuticals and biologics research expertise.

While biopharma is by far its main revenue-yielding area for research services, the firm says the diversification into other segments gives it the dexterity to maintain the growth momentum.

The research services subsidiary Syngene and the clinical research arm Clinigene together crossed the $100-million revenue mark in FY13, growing 36% over the previous fiscal. Syngene, in which GE Capital last year bought a 7.69% stake for R125 crore, is looking at going public in FY15.

“Our strategy at Syngene and Clinigene is to build a comprehensive range of discovery and development services to enable us to offer increased and integrated support,” said Peter Bains, director of Syngene International, at a recent interaction. “We see demand growing against that background in the biopharmaceuticals sector, the pharmaceuticals and the biologics sector. We also see increased demand in associated areas like agrochemicals, veterinary and even some which could be considered more remote, like petrochemicals and electronics.”

The entry into some of these remotely connected areas began 2-3 years ago as an extension of the work the material science division was doing, mostly relating to formulation development in polymers for the release profiles for pharmaceuticals. “This is a relatively small component of our business. What is important is that we can diversify our customer base,” said Bains.

The diversification, however, had begun earlier with research into nutritional science followed by agrochemicals and veterinary science.

Biocon’s contract research services — India’s largest contract research organisation and Asia’s second largest after China’s WuXi AppTec — says it sees potential for more applications from polymer and material science. Demand for contract-based research in drug discovery and development is typically driven by the productivity challenges that life sciences companies face in innovation, which has led to an increase in the allocation of work to an external research agency as well as collaboration.

source: http://www.financialexpress.com / The Financial Express / Home> FE> Story / by Ajay Sukumaran / Bangalore – June 21st, 2013