Dr. Sachin Chopra elected to Medical Board of Hospital / Nursing Home
Dr. Sachin Chopra, was recently elected to the Medical Board of St. Josephs Hospital and Nursing home. The teaching facility was founded in 1888 and is one of the oldest healthcare providers in the tri state area. The hospital has a 115 million dollar operating budget; 1200 employees; 194-bed acute care hospital and a 200-bed nursing home. Dr. Sachin Chopra is a graduate of Cornell...
A First in Medicine: Man Gets Lung Transplant
By Amy Albin – UCLA Health Sciences At Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, a recent transplant was done using a pair of live and breathing lungs. The lungs arrived in an experimental device which kept them alive, functioning and actually breathing, until the transplant could be done. The video element of this story is fascinating demonstrating that technology and development of...
IKEA Gets Agency Approval to Open Its 25 Wholly-Owned Stores in India
By BBC News NEW DELHI, Jan. 21, 2012 – India’s foreign investment agency has approved Ikea’s entry into the Indian market, bringing the Swedish firm closer to being the first major foreign retailer with wholly owned outlets. Ikea plans to open 25 stores, investing about U.S. $2 billion over the next 15 to 20 years. The proposal now needs approval from the federal...
Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex Touches 20k After 2 Years
By Business Standard Mumbai, January 16, 2012 – Stocks extended gains to a second straight day today, riding on optimism surrounding the delay in implementation of the controversial tax avoidance rules and hopes of policy rate cuts after lower-than-expected inflation numbers. The positive sentiments briefly pushed the Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex above the 20,000...
Tata Motors’ Success With Jaguar-Land Rover: More Than 350,000 Vehicles Sold in 2012, Up 30% from a Year Earlier
SOLIHULL, England – Jaguar Land Rover has roared to health in the four years since it was bought by Tata Motorsbut now comes the hard part for the luxury British automaker: proving it can build new models without former owner Ford. Since Tata took a $2.3 billion gamble to buy JLR from Ford at the height of the financial crisis, it has discovered a formula for success, surprising...
Book Review: A History of Organ Transplantation
Author: David Hamilton Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This book can be highly useful to medical students, interns and residents, as well as surgeons. It is a comprehensive, well researched, thoughtfully organized and expertly written book by an experienced transplant surgeon. It has more than 550 pages of material, including numerous photos...
Ultrasound Toothbrush Launched in India
By Indian Express Mumbai, January 8, 2012 – Mention the word Ultrasound and one associates it with applications in medicine sonography, echocardiography, brain, heart and stomach exams. One imagines experts in lab coats administrating tests on big, expensive machines in big hospitals. Scientists now have developed the world”s first toothbrush which uses only ultrasound...
An Automotive Juggernaut, From India?
By GS Early – Liberty Investor The Motor Trend SUV of the Year for 2012 is Tata Motor’s Range Rover Evoque. That may not be too surprising, since the Land Rover badge has been a symbol of quality and durability for decades. What’s different now is that a few years ago, Land Rover, the automotive icon of the far-flung British empire, was sold from European hands to an Asian...
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Dr. Sachin Chopra elected to Medical Board of Hospital / Nursing Home
Dr. Sachin Chopra, was recently elected to the Medical Board of St. Josephs Hospital and Nursing home. The teaching facility was founded in 1888 and is one of the oldest healthcare…
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A First in Medicine: Man Gets Lung Transplant
By Amy Albin – UCLA Health Sciences At Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, a recent transplant was done using a pair of live and breathing lungs. The lungs arrived in…
Indian Americans Honor Supreme Court Judge Tapia
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