HEALTH

Non-surgical face lifting methods catching on: expert
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 4
“Non surgical or minimal invasive cosmetic procedures for rejuvenation of the face and neck are all possible in less than three hours.” Speaking of this technique at a press conference at Chandigarh Press Club, Dr C.N. Malla, a senior consultant, said it was a technique finding favour with the beauty conscious of the city.

“We either use contour threads to lift sagging muscles or lift them with stainless steel wires after administering local anesthesia to the client. Since these do not involve any loss of working hours, they are called lunch break procedures,” he stated.

Dr Malla added: “New minimal invasive non-surgical face lift involves passing of contour threads under the skin to lift sagging, aged tissues under local anesthesia, which is half an hour procedure. The results can be observed within five to seven days. The affect lasts for five to seven years.”

Dr Malla said mesotherapy, another technique, involved multiple drug delivery for localised obese areas or fat pockets in order to dissolve body fat pocket in that region or for rejuvenation of face.

He said the conventional surgery of the face, forehead or neck involved heavy expenditure on hospitalisation.

Symposium on fungal infections
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 4
A two-day symposium on “Practice guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of common fungal infections” began at Government Medical College and Hospital in Sector 32 here today.

Prof TD Chugh, Emeritus Professor of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS), gave an overview of the fungal infections in the national perspective.

Prof HC Gugnani, Prof Manorama Deb and Prof Uma Banerjee discussed the epidemiological aspects of mycosis.

All aspects of diagnosis of common fungal infections, including conventional methods, histopathology and molecular methods, were covered in detail by Dr Jagdish Chander, Dr Harsh Mohan and Dr Niranjan Nayak.

Prominent among those, who spoke on the occasion included Dr HM Swami, Director-Principal of the GMCH,, Dr Atul Sachdev and Dr Varsha Gupta. The Director of the IMTECH, Sector 29, Dr Girish Sahini, was the chief guest.

SPORTS

Little scope for spinners in Mohali
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 4
As the Indian cricket team cannot live up to expectations against the England team in the ongoing first Test at Nagpur, which is heading towards draw, former Pakistani captain Intikhab Alam feels that Indians still have an edge in the three-match series.

"English players have been doing exceptionally well in all departments of the game in Nagpur but I still rate the Indian team above them for the coming matches", said Alam, Punjab Ranji coach.

Alam was supervising the 10-day Ranji camp at St Johns' High School, Sector 26, started here today.

Alam was of the view that the Indians should prepare pitches which cater to the needs of spinners to get the upper hand.

"This is a known fact that England batsmen are not technically sound against spin attack but Harbhajan and Kumble could not extract much from the seamer-friendly wicket till the end of the fourth day of the match", opined Alam.

In Mohali also, there would be a little scope for the spinners as the pitch here assisted fast bowlers and did not offer much turn, felt Alam.

The second test is scheduled to start from March 9 to 13 at PCA stadium here.

Alam seemed satisfied as the Punjab team had made it to the Ranji one-day knockout matches after remaining on the top in the North Zone. Haryana was the other team, which qualified for the next leg.

"Ours is a bunch of experienced and young players, which is capable enough to face any tough challenge. Except win, there is no other choice for any team in the coming matches so we are just focusing on high target", said Alam confidently.

Punjab will take on Bengal in their first match on March 16 at Kanpur.

Pooja best athlete of MCM college
Tribune News Service

Winners of the golf tournament organised by the Indian National Trust for Art and Culture Heritage, Chandigarh Chapter, at the Golf Club, Chandigarh, on Saturday. — A Tribune photograph

Prashant, Anchal lift runner trophies 
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 4
Prashant Dogra went home with the Milkha Singh Running Trophy for being declared the best runner (above 16 boys) while P.T. Usha Running Trophy was taken away by Anchal Bajwa during the YPS Cross Country 2006 event organised by YPS, phase VIII, here today.

Tagore House with 10176 points got first position, Patiala House was placed second followed by Ranjit House, Aitchson House and Nalagarh House at third, fourth and fifth position.

Results:

(Boys) U-16: 1 Prashant Dogra (Tagore House), 2 Mankeerat Singh (Ranjit House), 3 Inderpreet Singh (Tagore House), 4 Ravnoor (Patiala House), 5 Vishvajeet Singh (Tagore House), 6 Shariq (Ranjit House)

U-16: 1 Pearl Ranchal (Patiala House), 2 Simran Singh Brar (Patiala House), 3 Arshdeep Singh Brar (Nalagarh House), 4 Navtej Singh Saini (Patiala House), 5 Ravijot Singh Mann (Patiala House), 6 Akash Sidhwani (Ranjit House)

U-14: 1 Shakti Shah (Tagore House), 2 Kabir S. Dhillon (Nalagarh House), 3 Shiva Shah (Tagore House), 4 Nripjit S. Saini (Nalagarh House), 5 Ankit Saini (Nalagarh House), 6 Jobanjeet S. Sra (Aitchison House)

U-12: 1 Sahil Sharma (Ranjit House), 2 Abhi Sood (Tagore House), 3 Vishesh Galhotra (Tagore House), 4 Prithviraj Singh (Tagore House), 5 Jagjyot S. Sandhu (Tagore House), 6 Prabhdeep S. Ghai (Patiala House)

(Girls) A-15: 1Aanchal Bajwa (Nalagar House), 2 Jasmine Kaur Bajwa (Patiala House), 3 Ramandeep Neetu (Ranjit House), 4 Jaipreet Dhanoa (Nalagarh House), 5 Sukriti Rai (Aitchison House) 6 Manisha Shastri (Nalagarh House)

U-15: 1 Tarini Chawla (Patiala House) 2 Seonju Oh (Patiala House) 3 Steffy (Nalagarh House) 4 Simran Kaur Aulakh (Nalagarh House) 5 Dhriti Tiwari (Patiala House) 6 Ravikiran Kaur (Tagore House)

U-13: 1 Harkiran Nain (Tagore House) 2 Agampreet Kaur (Patiala House) 3 Eshleen K. Sodhi (Patiala House) 4 Rupnider Kaur (Ranjit House) 5 Aastha Arora (Patiala House) 6 Rebecca (Patiala House)

U-11: 1 Vrindha Talwar (Ranjit House) 2 Hui Jin (Patiala House) 3 Arushi Pawar (Ranjit House) 4 Guntas (Nalagarh House) 5 Isha (Patiala House) 6 Simrata Grewal (Aitchison House)

U-10: 1 Siddharth Yaddannapudi (Tagore House) 2 Thupstan(Nalagarh House) 3 Gurinder Singh (Tagore House)4 Karanbir S. Turna (Tagore House) 5 Darpan Galhotra (Tagore House) 6 Chandandeep (Nalagarh House).