8/31/2010  Drug-device company Taris Biomedical Inc. is filling a void in health care that newly appointed CEO Sarma Duddu believes is long overdue by providing a device that is capable of delivering sustained, time-released medicine to a specific region of the body.
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| 8/31/2010  Editor’s note: September is National Preparedness Month. In recognition of this, SAHELI, a Boston-based women’s support group and affiliate of the India Association of Greater Boston, is reaching out to the community on the topic of being prepared during emergencies.
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8/31/2010  Sangeeta Ahuja, who took over as chairwoman of the Global Organization of Physicians of Indian Origin’s Health Council in January, is on a one-woman crusade to educate South Asians about the importance of staying healthy.
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| 7/19/2010 Dr. Basmaa Ali and health practitioner Pratibha Shah share a love of healing but practice medicine on seemingly opposite ends of the spectrum. Ali is a primary care physician and Shah, a Winchester, Mass., resident, practices the ancient Indian healing model ayurveda. Though they employ different modalities, they recently joined three other doctors of varying disciplines in an endeavor to fill what the two see as a gap in this country’s health-care system.
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7/2/2010 Ekjut Intervention in India Discussed at Brandeis University
Husband-and-wife doctors Prasanta Tripathy and Nirmala Nair of Delhi, India, were in Waltham, Mass., recently to discuss the findings from their recently published study that looked at ways to decrease the rate of perinatal mortality deaths in India. The study, titled “Effect of a Participatory Intervention with Women’s Groups on Birth Outcomes and Maternal Depression in Jharkand and Orissa, India: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial,” came out April 3 in the medical journal The Lancet.
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| 6/14/2010  Sunitha Nagrath, instructor in surgery at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, was one of 115 2009 award winners chosen by the National Institutes of Health for their contributions in health care. Nagrath nabbed a New Innovator Award, one of three award categories designed to encourage investigators to explore ideas that have the potential to advance scientific fields and quicken the translation of research into improved health. The two other categories are the Transformative R01 Award and Pioneer Award.
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3/8/2010  Winter is still very much here and temperatures are likely to remain quite low for the rest of the month. A common complaint of cold weather is joint pain, especially in the middle aged, women and elderly. Occasionally kids may also complain of ankle or knee pain after cold-weather sports and play. Most common areas of pain are knees, ankles, shoulders, neck, back, wrists and fingers.
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| 2/1/2010  Sangeeta Ahuja, a long-time Stamford, Conn., resident and a registered dietician for over 25 years, has been appointed to chair the Health Council for the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin. GOPIO is an international community service organization founded in 1989. |
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2/1/2010 Cambridge Health Alliance has expanded the staff at its Revere Family Health center in Revere, Mass., to meet the growing need for primary care services. Physicians Shusmita Dhar and C. Jasmine Karalakulasingam have joined the practice. |
| 1/8/2010  Wondering if there's much diversity among medical professionals in the region? The Indian Medical Association of New England's resurgent Women's Forum is proof there is.
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1/8/2010 A recent meeting of Saheli members tackled the topic of mental illness in the South Asian community, especially among youth and young adults, with mental health clinician Rupali Grover, generating discussion ranging from domestic abuse to depression and sexual abuse on college campuses.
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