8 Sep :  As  part of National Nutrition week celebrations, the Division of Health Education, Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Center organized a Healthy Breakfast recipe competition for the Dietitians and Poster making competitions for the school going children on various topics such as Balanced diet, Food Pyramids, Chocolates: How good or bad, Importance of Soya beans, Obesity and other Lifestyle disorders etc.
Unhealthy trend of Skipping breakfast is present in half of the young adolescents in the study being conducted by the Department of Pediatrics funded by ICMR. Parents should …

14 Aug : Series of six workshops on “HIV/AIDS and ART training for Nurses” under Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) was organised at National Institute of Nursing Education, PGIMER,  Chandigarh from 20th April – 14th August, 2010. Total 150 nurses were trained from Himachal Pradesh (Shimla, Solan, Una, Bilaspur, Mandi, Kangra, Palampur) and Chandigarh (PGIMER, GMCH-32, GMSH-16). Important topics related to Stigma and discrimination, Prevention of HIV, Counselling and testing for HIV, Infection control and Post Exposure Prophylaxis, Paediatric HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Positive living for PLHAs, …

10 Aug : A workshop on training of nurses on HIV/AIDS and ART under Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) is being organised at National Institute of Nursing Education (NINE), PGIMER, and Chandigarh from 10.08.2010 to 14.8.2010. Twenty eight nurses from Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh are participating in the workshop. Important topics related to HIV/ AIDS will be Nurses Role in HIV/AIDS, Stigma & Discrimination,  Epidemiology and  disease progression, Counselling and Testing for HIV Prevention of parent to child transmission (PPTCT), Infection control & Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP), …

15 June : Department of Cardiology at PGIMER, Chandigarh has once again taken the lead in the region for performing rare interventions. Dr. Shiv Bagga working as Assistant Professor in Department has brought laurels to the Institute by performing the rare percutaneous device closure of ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm (RSOV) for the first time in the Institute & in the north region in a young 21 years old male. According to the treating physician, this is a rare disease entity in which there is a high pressure connection between …

3 June : Ten days workshop on “ROLE OF NURSES IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT” will be organized from 3rd – 12th June 2010 in National Institute of Nursing Education, PGIMER, Chandigarh funded by GOI, DGHS (Nursing Section), New Delhi for Development of Nursing Training of Nurses working in different hospital and educational Institutes in North India. The Topic are as under:-
1. Disaster its causes and its effects
2. Policies, acts and administration set up of disaster management
3. Vulnerable population : women, children, elderly
4. Disaster preparedness: Do’s and Don’ts
5. Prevention and management of …