Hair India 2010

From Hair in India to Hair India

In all cultures, human hair and hairdo have been a powerful metaphor. Tracing back the importance and significance of human hair to the dawn of civilization on the Indian subcontinent, we find that all the Vedic gods are depicted as having uncut hair in mythological stories as well as in legendary pictures. The same is true of the Hindu avatars, and the epic heroes of the Ramayana, and the Maha...

DISABILITY IN INDIA – Version 4 (September 2010)

An estimated 10% of the world’s population experiences some form of disability or impairment (WHO Action Plan 2006-2011). The term ‘disability’ has many different meanings; the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) however, uses the term disability to refer to loss of health, where health is conceptualized in terms of functioning capacity in a set of health domains such as mobility, cognition, hearing...

Mental health initiatives in India (1947-2010).

© The National Medical Journal of India 2011 ‘A network of decentralized mental health services for ameliorating the more common categories of disorders is envisaged. The programme outline for such a disease would involve the diagnosis of common disorders, and the prescription of common therapeutic drugs, by general duty medical staff. In regard to mental health institutions for indoor treatmen...

2010 International Conference on Signal Acquisition and Processing, ICSAP 2010, Bangalore, India, February 9-10, 2010

A Review of Ringworm of the Hair in India

Calcutta. Each of these cases was individually studied for identification of the fungus responsible for the disease. After the isolation of the fungus by culture it was identified by study of the reproductive organ in culture. Sabouraud in his book "Les Teignes" gave an account of 500 cases in France (1910) but the number of cases studied in this series is 215 which may however, give a represen...