CHICAGO: A conference to educate the physicians on the 9-11 emergency procedures was held recently at Viceroy of India in Lombard, a Chicago suburb.

SAN DIEGO, CA: The members of Congress participated in the annual Tri-Caucus Minority Health Summit. The Health Summit unites Members from the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) with health advocates, community organizers, and health experts from various fields to address health disparities among our minority communities.

CHICAGO: Governor Rod Blagojevich was joined by health experts, medical professionals, and families struggling with the rising costs of health insurance at the UIC Outpatient Care Center to announce new rules his administration is filing to address urgent health insurance problems for the growing number of Illinois families without job-based health insurance.

Growing Up in the Age of the HPV Vaccine When patients ask me if their daughters should get the HPV vaccine, I commend them. Most parents would rather not think about their child’s sexuality- understandably. But those who are asking these questions are on the right track.

Dr.Vidushi Babber, the Winning Doc is one South Asian American woman determined to educate people on mental health and she is definitely using her own style to get her wellness message across.

CHICAGO: The American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) has planned a grand Indo-US Health Summit to be held in New Delhi in the second week of December this year.

CHICAGO: The Association of Scientists of Indian Origin in America (ASIOA), Neuroscience Division, recently organized a one-day national conference on the Expanding Frontiers of Neuroscience Research, in the Department of Psychiatry Conference Room of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

CHICAGO: Association of Indian Physicians of Northern Ohio (AIPNO) and B.D. Mehta Mahavir Heart Institute (MHI), Surat, teamed up early this year for an unified humanitarian mission of providing state of art health care to 30 persons who cannot afford expensive heart surgeries like angioplasty, angiographies, balloons, and pacemakers.

NEW YORK: Merck Serono announced its collaboration with US biopharmaceutical company Ambrx, Inc. to develop and commercialize Ambrx's long-acting growth hormone products.