Veb Carl Zeiss, Jena : Golden Jubilee of Work on Aids to Vision

The golden jubilee of vaccination against poliomyelitis.

Inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), developed in the USA by Jonas Salk in the early 1950s, was field tested in 1954, and found to be safe and effective. The year 2004 marks the golden jubilee of this breakthrough. From 1955 IPV was used extensively in the US and polio incidence declined by more than 95 per cent. However, in 1962, when oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) became available, the nation...

The Golden Jubilee Number of the Anticeptic

Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre celebrates golden jubilee

The establishment of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) was a turning point for high‐standard postgraduate training in various medical disciplines in the country. The institute attracted many leading teachers and clinicians for its faculty from medical colleges in India and abroad. There was a congenial atmosphere to excel in all aspects of medical education, clinical services,...

12th Carl Zeiss sponsored workshop on Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy and related methods

Systems biology is the study of an organism, viewed as an integrated and interacting network of genes, proteins and biochemical reactions which give rise to life. Instead of analyzing individual components or aspects of the organism, systems biologists focus on all the components and the interactions among them, all as part of one system using computer-based or special algorithms-based analysis...

The Golden Jubilee Conference: the outcome, success and opportunities.

he Journal of Postgraduate Medicine (JPGM) celebrated 50 years of its existence by organizing JPGM GoldCon, an international conference on medical writing, editing and pub lishing at the Seth GS Medical College from 23-26 September 2004. JPGM was the first indexed journal published by any medical college in India. Fittingly this first international conference in India was devoted to medical wri...