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Prof J.D. Wig gets award
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 23
Prof J.D. Wig, Head, Department of General Surgery, PGI, has been awarded the Medical Council of India Silver Jubilee Research Award for the year 2005 in the category of “Outstanding work in the field of medical and allied sciences done in India”.

He has earlier received the B.C. Roy Award in the category of eminent medical teacher; the Pfizer Oration Award of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology for contribution to gastroenterology; the Col Sangam Lal Memorial Oration Award of the National Academy of Medical Sciences; the Dr P.K. Sen Memorial Oration Award; the Dr Das Mahapatra Oration Award of the Association of Surgeons of India, among others. He is a member of many national and international scientific societies.

Pharmacology meet: The fourth day of the XXIV National Workshop on Clinical Pharmacology started with a lecture by Dr P.L. Sharma, Emeritus professor, Department of Pharmacology, PGI, on cost benefit consideration in new drug development.

He said: “The process of new drug development is extremely expensive and up to $ one billion may be spent. If carried out in India, the cost could be reduced by one-fifth to one-tenth. Increasingly, Indian companies are entering the new drug development programmes.”

Dr Shekhar Potkar, Director-Clinical Research from Pfizer, spoke on the regulatory aspects of clinical trials. He said the new Schedule Y of the Indian Drugs and Cosmetic Act had been released last year.

He also spoke on international regulatory issues in the field of clinical trials. He stressed that the regulations were getting more and more stringent and the investigators must be very careful while conducting clinical trials. The responsibilities of the investigators and the sponsors had been well described in various guidelines and should be followed.

With increasing number of therapeutic options becoming available, the importance and nuances of quality of life clinical trials was discussed by Prof P. Khosla, Head, Department of Pharmacology, CMC, Ludhiana.

He said “Merely evaluating the safety and efficacy of new drugs is not sufficient in all cases. It is important that the impact of drugs on patients’ quality of life must also be evaluated. There are well-validated methods of evaluation of quality of life and they should be used to measure patients’ quality of life.”

In his second lecture, Prof Khosla stressed the need for physicians, practitioners, scientists and students to critically evaluate published scientific literature. He explained that pharmaceutical companies may try to mislead readers by writing in medical journals.

“They can often take the help of complicated statistical methods which practitioners do not understand. The positive effects of the drugs are highlighted whereas the negative ones are hidden. Therefore, careful evaluation of this published material is of paramount importance,” he added.

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Boxing championship from today
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 23
The five-day 13th All India AK Misra Memorial Boxing Championship will start from tomorrow at the Skating Rink, Sector 10, here.
Over 250 boxers of national and international fame are expected to participate in the 11 weight categories of the senior division. So far as many as 30 teams from all over the country have confirmed participation.

During the championship, two teams will be finalised for participation in the forthcoming Common-wealth Games 2006 and Kings Cup Championship 2006 to be held at Melbourne and Bangkok, respectively. The teams will be selected by a committee at a meeting scheduled for February 28.

The championship will be inaugurated tomorrow at 3 p m by Ms Indu Misra, wife of the Late AK Misra while Mr Surinder Singla, Finance Minister, Punjab will be the chief guest at the closing ceremony.

The following teams will participate: Assam Rifles, Shillong, Goa, Assam, Indian Navy, Tamil Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, West Bengal, Army Signal, Jabalpur, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, CISF, Karnataka, Kerala, Uttaranchal, Delhi, Shiv Naresh Boxing Club, Delhi, PEPSU, Andhra Pradesh, Universal Boxing Club, Jalandhar, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Army Sports Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, Chandigarh Green, Chandigarh Yellow, IABF Pink, IABF Blue and SAI Bhiwani.

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Annual sports meet concludes
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 23
Kriti Shukla of ECE Department VI th semester was adjudged ‘best athlete’ in the two-day annual sports meet of the Government Polytechnic for Women, Sector 10, which concluded here today.

Various events including throw ball, basketball, table tennis, badminton, long jump, shot-put, discus throw, javelin throw and races were held during the meet.

The results are — Long jump: 1 Kriti Shukla, 2 Monica, 3 Anshika; High jump: 1 Anshika, 2 Kriti Shukla, 3 Meena; Shot put: 1 Chetna, Kiran, 2 Monica, Kriti, 3 Shivani; 200 m race: 1 Kriti Shukla, 2 Anshika, 3 Shilpa Thakur; Sack race: 1 Kriti Shukla, 2 Harshida, 3 Monica.

The chief guest Mr Vivek Atrey, Director, Technical Education, gave away the prizes to the winners. 

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Inter-varsity softball championship
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 23
Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh, Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), Amritsar, Delhi Univesity, Delhi and Kurukshetra University (KU), Kurukshetra have moved into the league after defeating the opponents in the Inter-University Softball Championship for Women at PU grounds here.

Guru Nanak Dev University got the better of Kerala University by 11-1 while KU beat Pune 12-10. In the match between PU, Chandigarh and Kotam University, PU got a walkover as the Kotam team could not turn up. MDU University lost to Delhi by 7-0.

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St Xaviers wins runners-up trophy

Mohali, February 23
Student of St Xaviers School, Sector 71, brought laurels to the institution in the Inter-School Athletic Meet organised by District Athletic Association, Ropar, in Phase VIII here.

Students from classes V to X participated in various races and track events. Raminder Singh was chosen the best athlete of the year. Raminder stood first in 100 mts race while Tarun Sharma and Kamaljeet came second and third respectively. Raminder Singh bagged the second position in 200 mts race while Tajbir Singh stood second in 400 mts race. Vikramjeet Singh secured the third position in long jump.

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