On the day of Saraswati Puja I write this message to all esteemed members. The goddess of learning and knowledge is kind enough to bless us. The ASI celebrated well attended North Zonal CME at AIIMS between 23–25th January. The I.J.S. has already made quality inroads into scientifi c publication under the ever-active leadership of Dr. S. K. Shukla, the editor and his editorial board team. Our p...

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It is a great privilege for me to announce the birth of Epilepsia Open, the open-access journal of the League. In the accompanying editorial, the editors explain in some detail the many reasons for establishing this new journal. In short, Epilepsia Open is a response to a call from our community, which believed that the League’s preexisting publication portfolio was insufficient to host the eve...

It is with great pleasure that I greet you at the start of the New Year. I wish you and your families’ health, happiness and prosperity for 2010. The Association of Surgeons of India has always believed in serving the society that we live in. A few years from now, I expect the Association to be much bigger than it is now. More importantly, I hope that it comes to be regarded as being trend-sett...

As the American Board of Family Medicine transitioned to Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians (MC-FP) from the old recertification paradigm, I made several promises to our diplomates. I assured them that (1) we wanted to develop meaningful, continuous, long-term relationships with them as we worked together to help them deliver the highest-quality care to their patients; (2) we wo...

Dear Members of the American Genetic Association, I am happy to report that the American Genetic Association (AGA) had another outstanding year in 2013. Membership soared by 19%, buoyed by addition of nearly 100 new individual and student members, which reflects the new (but ongoing) policy of providing complimentary one-year memberships to attendees of the annual AGA meeting and AGA-sponsored ...

In continuing of the first part published in the previous issue of the South Bulletin, following is the second part of the extracts from the above titled-paper by Deepak Nayyar. This part considers some important correctives, learning from the past and present, for strategies of development. It also calls for ‘rethinking’ to understand and foster the process of development, as thinking about de...

Chuck Lanzieri was born and grew up in Wolcott, Connecticut, and attended Boston College, graduating in 1974 with a bachelor’s degree in biology. He went to New York Medical College, where his interest in neuroanatomy initially led him to consider neurology as a speciality. During medical school, Chuck was secretly drawn to radiology by then department chairman Richard Friedenberg and chief res...

For as far back as we have any records of the proceedings of this Society, it has been customary for the retiring President to give a general resumt of the work done in the Society during his two years' occupancy of the chair. In a society like the present, which has always comprised among its members some of the most advanced thinkers and most able teachers of medical science, this biennial re...