1960 Medical batch, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

This blog is about the entrants in the year 1960, to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ceylon, Colombo. The email address for communications is, 1960batch@gmail.com. Please BOOKMARK this page for easier access later.Photo is the entrance porch of the old General Hospital, Colombo, still in existence. Please use the search box below to look for your requirement.

Saturday, December 15, 2018

Odds and ends


Detecting risk of childhood asthma
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6496335/Groundbreaking-app-detects-childs-risk-asthma-just-SIX-yes-no-questions.html

35 min daily walk for the elderly
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6187189/Walking-35-minutes-day-halve-elderly-peoples-risk-severe-stroke-study-claims.html

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Friday, December 14, 2018

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Dangers of IVF
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6493115/One-woman-week-suffers-deadly-IVF-effect.html


Dirt and obesity
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6493241/How-pill-mud-cure-obesity-soaking-fat-stop-body-absorbing-it.html


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Thursday, December 13, 2018

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Surgery for arthritic thumbs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6474859/Tiny-jellybean-thumb-ends-pain-hand-arthritis-increases-grip-strength.html

Near death experiences
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6468401/Are-near-death-experiences-hallucinations-science-puzzling-phenomenon.html

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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Odds and ends


Avoiding still birth
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6472793/Five-ways-pregnant-women-reduce-risk-stillbirth-according-gynecologists.html

Practising 'Mindfulness'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6474413/The-dark-mindfulness-Growing-evidence-therapy-harmful.html


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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Odds and ends


Elephant rescue in Sri Lanka.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6480727/Trapped-elephant-clambers-canal-rescuers-throw-ingenious-ladder.html?fbclid=IwAR236QLe21b58a_obghx3enHvQN-DIouPf7ImM1jsO3cZMl4mX6pVvYQKA8


Kangaroo, Dog and rescuer
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6469613/Aussie-bloke-attacked-KANGAROO-doesnt-drop-beer.html?fbclid=IwAR3-KyQhYhwh5MKqOUHUOOIKW80181rdAfzjhy2-WJbARj7h-uLKI1sGJ_Q
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Pill-popping generation
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6481015/Is-proof-pill-popping-Britain-stop-taking-tablets.html


Heavy screen time and the brain
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6477685/Heavy-screen-time-appears-impact-childrens-brains-study.html
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Monday, December 10, 2018

Odds and ends


Vintage car run
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6351801/Car-lovers-vintage-motors-road-worlds-longest-running-motoring-event.html


The movement to live frugally and retire decades early
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20181101-fire-the-movement-to-live-frugally-and-retire-decades-early

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Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to two researchers who discovered how to make the immune system fight cancer

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/1/17923022/nobel-prize-medicine-physiology-james-allison-tasuku-honjo-cancer-immunotherapy



A history of body horrors from distended scrotums to exploding teeth

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18129388/body-horrors-medical-mysteries-exploding-teeth-distended-scrotum

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