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Recently, World Thrombosis Day (WTD) was celebrated on October 13,2020. In the last post, we saw why October 13 was celebrated as WTD. There is a lot of work which Virchow did on thrombosis and hence he was honoured by celebrating his birthday as WTD. But there were other people, who had also described thrombosis even before Virchow. The first probable reference was in 1271. Raoul of Normandy, a 20 year old man, developed unilateral oedema in his right ankle, which subsequently extended up to his thigh with no obvious symptoms in the contralateral leg. In 1576, Ambroise Pare first documented that blood could clot and congeal in a vein. He mentioned this in reference to superficial veins. “they (the varicose veins) often swell with congealed dryed blood and cause pain which is increased by going and compression.” Towards the end of the seventeenth century, childbirth as a cause of thrombosis was described. This may be because, at that time, there was shift from midwife doctors

The World Thrombosis Day (WTD) campaign for 2020 centered on the theme of ‘Eyes Open to Thrombosis’. Why this theme ? The WTD campaign believes that eyes are windows to the mind. There is lack of awareness of thrombosis by health care professionals, the general public and policy makers, so WTD wants to stress on the importance of building awareness by touching the mind. “Eyes Open to Thrombosis” encourages people to open their eyes to thrombosis today and not wait until tomorrow. The WTD campaign continues its mission to increase global awareness of thrombosis. This new theme ‘Eyes open to thrombosis’ is woven into offerings, planning for many activities throughtout the year, from collaterals and resources to digital events and activities. Partners can translate the events and activities into local languages. The WTD 2020 campaign has more than 2000 WTD partners around the world. History WTD was founded by the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) in 20

  Nobel Prize in Physics, 2020 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose, University of Oxford, United Kingdom,   “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity “. The other half jointly awarded to Reinhard Genzel, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestril Physics, Garching, Germany University of California, Berkeley, USA and Andrea Ghez, University of California, Los Angeles, “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy” It was announced by Professor Goran K. Hansson, Seretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 6 October,2020. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2020 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 was awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M.Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus”. It was announced by Professor Thomas Perlmann, Secretary General for the Nobel Assembly and the

  Hi friends, When I was looking for what topics to post this week, the noble prizes for the year 2020 were being announced. So, I thought of writing few posts about the Nobel prize. Nobel prize is named after Dr.Alfred Bernhard Nobel, who was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist. I think most of us are aware of this. I will write about Sir Alfred Nobel in subsequent posts. He wrote a will stating that his property will be given as prizes for various branches, every year. The 2020 Nobel prize in Chemistry was announced by Professor Goran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 7 October 2020. It was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier of Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, Germany and Jennifer A. Doudna of University of California, Berkeley, USA for the development of a method for genome editing. What was their discovery which made them get Nobel prize? They have discovered one of ge