The latest Heart Valve Bank newsletter is now available for download - Newsletter for October 2009, our Vijayadasmi Special Issue.
Articles in this issue include:
- Ethandweni Sai Children’s Home - Zimbabwe: Nestled in one of the poorest districts in Zimbabwe, Ethandweni Sai Children’s Home has been an oasis for IV AIDS orphans. Established in 1999 the home celebrated its 10th anniversary this year.
- Taking heart with a new clip: A new procedure to repair the heart valves of patients who are normally considered too high risk to operate on has beenperformed for the first time in London at Imperial College Healthcare.
- The Burden of Blindness: Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors. Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of loss of vision and to define blindness, and there are defined methods of assessing and categorising levels of visual functions. Total blindness is the complete lack of form and visual light perception.
- MIND BODY ATMA (MBA) Sadhana Camp 2009: From 1st August, 180 youth from the UK journeyed to Prashanthi Nilayam for an intense nine-day sadhana camp with the theme Mind, Body and Atma (MBA). In this era of socio-economic instability, moral decline and dilution of traditional values, youth are increasingly finding it difficult to balance their spiritual goals with their secular routines. It is for this reason that this camp was born.
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