‘Medicine’ Archives
UiTM lecturer first Malaysian awarded Aussie PM’s scholarship
SHAH ALAM: A Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) medical faculty lecturer, Dr Jeegajeeva Rao, created history by becoming the first Malaysian to receive the Australian Prime Minister’s scholarship award. Dr Jeegajeeva, an obstetrician and gynaecologist, received the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Awards worth RM630,500 to pursue a [...]
Reconnecting The Brain
Researchers are working to reconstruct the nervous system so that paralyzed limbs might be active again. Peckham, a biomedical engineering professor at Case Western Reserve University, and Donoghue, a neuroscience professor at Brown University, have been able to reestablish that connection with stunning results, enabling partially paralyzed [...]
Nanomedicine: New Strategies and Innovations to Understand, Treat and Monitor Disease
Nanotechnology is one of the most popular areas of scientific research, especially with regard to medical applications. We've already discussed some of the new detection methods that should bring about cheaper, faster and less invasive cancer diagnoses. But once the diagnosis occurs, there's still the prospect of surgery, chemotherapy or [...]
