Dr Jeegajeeva, an obstetrician and gynaecologist, received the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Awards worth RM630,500 to pursue a doctorate in medicine.

UiTM vice-chancellor Datuk Prof Dr Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar said Dr Jeegajeeva, one of the university’s excellent service award recipients last year, had vast experience in his field in several countries including Malaysia, Britain, Indonesia and Australia.

“UiTM is proud of Dr Jeegajeeva’s achievement. He is one of 10 individuals in Asia chosen for the scholarship,” he said at the presentation of the scholarship here Wednesday.

Australian High Commissioner to Malaysia Penny Williams presented the award. Read more ……

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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 patients to stand up or write a letter. Peckham, 65, has since 1986 been outfitting paralyzed patients with implanted devices that hijack nerve signals from unaffected regions of patients’ bodies and use them to move otherwise lifeless parts. Now he is developing a networked system that he hopes will allow people control of up to five areas of their body at once.

Now the professors’ labs are working together in hopes of some day developing a system that allows a paralyzed patient to move his or her own hand or to sit up straight by thinking about it, the way most of us do. They are bridging the gap by using small pulses of electrical current to turn the nerves back on. Read more ……

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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 radiation treatment to destroy the cancer. Unfortunately, these treatments can carry serious side effects. Chemotherapy can cause a variety of ailments, including hair loss, digestive problems, nausea, lack of energy and mouth ulcers. Read more ……

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world. New technologies such as nanotechnology present us with new ways of treating patients that were unimaginable only a few years ago. However, there needs to be an understanding of the problems clinicians and patients face and the potential solutions scientists can develop to improve the efficacy of diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

On behalf of the UC San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, it is privilege to invite you to participate in Application for Nanomedicine: New Strategies and Innovations to Understand, Treat, and Monitor Disease.

This unique webinar series brings expertise from many fields at UC San Diego and it is intended to demonstrate how nanotechnology can enhance the diagnosis, monitoring and cutting edge treatments of cancer. At UC San Diego we have built a program that incorporates nanotechnology in cancer care and we would like to educate you on this new discipline. This course will illustrate applications of nanotechnology in cancer treatment that are soon to be available in a clinic near you. Read more ……

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