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- UP allots land for AIIMS in Rae Bareli town
- NCH CIRP awarded CDC Injury Control Research Center designation, another 5 years
- To combat 'silent killers', India to conduct survey
- Metabolic MAGIC
- Bengal to increase awareness in dengue affected areas
- 80 confirmed cases of dengue in Bengal
- Finalise rural medical course, court tells MCI
- Source of conflict: Study finds factors that can shape divorced mothers' co-parenting experiences
- UIC study examines exercise and weight loss for older adults with osteoarthritis
- Court notice to 12 private hospitals in Delhi
| UP allots land for AIIMS in Rae Bareli town Posted: 13 Aug 2012 10:53 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Lucknow, Aug 13 - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has given his consent for allotment of land to set up an All India Institute of Medical Sciences - in Rae Bareli town, officials said Monday. The state government had proposed 114 acres in Lalganj tehsil in Rae Bareli district but the central government asked for land in the town. Rae Bareli is the parliamentary constituency of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. The chief minister late Sunday gave an official nod for an AIIMS in Rae Bareli town, officials said. At a recent meeting with the chief minister here, union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had requested Akhilesh Yadav to consider Rae Bareli town for the AIIMS campus. The chief minister said the decision to allot land in the city was taken so that people don't face difficulties in reaching the institution. The chief minister said that he had written to the union health and family welfare minister May 17, 2012 requesting him to also establish AIIMS campuses in Poorvanchal, Bundelkhand and Ruhelkhand regions. He added that his government would allocate land on priority for setting up of more such institutes. http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| NCH CIRP awarded CDC Injury Control Research Center designation, another 5 years Posted: 13 Aug 2012 05:00 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has renewed the designation of the Center for Injury Research and Policy (CIRP) of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital as one of the agency's Injury Control Research Centers (ICRCs). This renewal follows a highly competitive review process of applications by research centers from across the country. It reaffirms CIRP's role as a national leader in the areas of pediatric injury research, education and training, and community outreach. Since it was first designated as an ICRC in 2008, CIRP has been the only ICRC from among the 11 ICRCs nationally to focus on injury research and prevention for children and adolescents. Pediatric injuries are one of our nation's most important public health problems, said Gary Smith, MD, DrPH, founder and director of CIRP and professor of pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. We are delighted that this continued funding support and designation as a CDC Injury Control Research Center will allow us to expand our research, teaching and advocacy efforts as we pursue our goal of preventing injury-related death and disability among children and adolescents. Injury is the leading cause of death and acquired disability among children and adolescents in the United States. Nationally, more than 9,000 children and adolescents died from unintentional injury in 2009, and millions more were treated in hospital emergency departments due to injury. Our success as a pediatric injury research center is due to the dedication, innovation and hard work of our outstanding faculty, affiliate faculty and staff, said Dr. Smith, We publish a new research study more frequently than every 6 days, and then translate and disseminate the findings of that research to parents, other child caregivers, health professionals, coaches, community leaders, corporations, and others, who can use the information to take action to prevent injuries.... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| To combat 'silent killers', India to conduct survey Posted: 12 Aug 2012 04:22 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) New Delhi, Aug 12 - India for the first time is undertaking a survey on lifestyle trends in nine states in an effort to get data on people suffering from non-communicable diseases like diabetes and cardio-vascular diseases, and find a solution to combat these silent killers. India presently has no figure on non-communicable diseases -. According to World Health Organisation - estimates, by 2030 67 percent of all deaths in India will be due to such causes. The Lancet estimates that the loss to national income for India due to non-communicable diseases mortality for 2006-15 will be US $237 billion. The health ministry has directed the Registrar General of India - to undertake the survey. The RGI has been asked to collect clinical, biochemical and anthropometric components like blood pressure, fasting sugar, iodine and iron levels among people in the nine states of Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Assam. These nine states account for around 50 percent of the country's population and have the highest number of infant and maternal mortality rates put together. The survey will be the maiden estimate of parameters like blood pressure, height and weight, fasting sugar, iodine and iron levels in such a big and diverse sample. Earlier, the Indian Council of Medical Research - had done some surveys but the sample size was very small, an RGI official told IANS. RGI will start collecting samples from 1,400 households in 284 districts in the states by the end of September or early October. The clinical parameters would help get an estimate of the number of people suffering from lifestyle and nutritional diseases. Till now the focus of the Annual Health Survey - and National Family Health Survey - conducted by the government has always been on maternal and infant deaths, malnourishment among children and immunization. The health ministry is presently running a... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2012 05:00 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Researchers have identified 38 new genetic regions that are associated with glucose and insulin levels in the blood. This brings the total number of genetic regions associated with glucose and insulin levels to 53, over half of which are associated with type 2 diabetes. The researchers used a technology that is 100 times more powerful than previous techniques used to follow-up on genome-wide association results. This technology, Metabochip, was designed as a cost-effective way to find and map genomic regions for a range of cardiovascular and metabolic characteristics on a large scale. Previous approaches were not cost effective and tested only 30-40 DNA sequence variations, but this chip allowed researchers to look at up to 200,000DNA sequence variations for many different traits at one time. The team hoped to find new variants influencing blood glucose and insulin traits and to identify pathways involved in the regulation of insulin and glucose levels. We wanted to use this improved Metabochip technology to see whether we could find additional genomic associations that may have been previously missed, says Dr Claudia Langenberg, co-lead author from the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge. Our earlier work identified 23 genetic regions associated with blood glucose levels, highlighting important biological pathways involved in the regulation of glucose. At that stage, and before the design of the Metabochip, we were still limited by our capacity to quickly follow-up and afford parallel genotyping of promising, but unconfirmed genetic regions associated with glucose levels in many different studies across the world. The team combined data from new samples typed on the Metabochip with data from a previous study to discover genetic regions associated with blood glucose and insulin levels. They identified 38 previously unknown regions for three different quantitative traits associated with blood glucose levels;... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| Bengal to increase awareness in dengue affected areas Posted: 11 Aug 2012 07:08 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Kolkata, Aug 11 - With 80 confirmed cases of dengue reported so far in West Bengal, the state government has decided to launch an intense awareness campaign throughout all the disease prone areas. The government has also decided to train 142 medical officers of Kolkata Municipal Corporation - to tackle the menace, as most of the confirmed cases are reported in Kolkata. So far there are 80 patients who have been confirmed as suffering from dengue. We are keeping a close watch on the situation. But there is no need to panic, said Minister of State for Health Chandrima Bhattacharya. According to her, 64 of the patients are from Kolkata, 14 from North 24 Parganas district and two from other parts of the state. Bhattacharya said that dengue-prone areas have been divided into two categories and fund for launching intense awareness camping is being given accordingly. The dengue-prone areas have been divided as category A and category B, going by the intensiveness of the disease in the area. Kolkata is under category A and areas of Howrah, Siliguri and Asansol are under category B, she said. The area of Kolkata will be given Rs.16 lakh as part of the intense awareness campaign and areas of Siliguri, Howrah and Asansol will be given Rs.3 lakh each. Bhattacharya said that 142 medical officers of KMC will be trained by the health department in collaboration with Calcutta School of Tropical Medical to tackle the menace in the metropolis. She added that health department has decided to conduct free testing in all the medical colleges of the hospital and also open five testing laboratories in the KMC areas when blood samples will be tested free. http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| 80 confirmed cases of dengue in Bengal Posted: 10 Aug 2012 09:24 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Kolkata, Aug 10 - As many as 80 confirmed cases of dengue have been reported so far in West Bengal, a senior health official said Friday. So far there are 80 patients who have been confirmed as suffering from dengue. We are keeping a close watch on the situation, director of health services B.R. Satpathy told IANS. According to Satpathy, 64 of these are from Kolkata, 14 from North 24 Parganas district and two from other parts of the state. For the last few days, several people from in and around Kolkata have been admitted to several hospitals with symptoms similar to dengue. We are carrying out an awareness campaign to tackle this menace. We are planning a large scale campaign along with the School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, said Satpathy. Kolkata Municipal Corporation's health department in-charge Atin Ghosh said a high-level meeting was convened with experts from National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, School of Tropical Medicine and KMC officials to discuss the measures that need to be taken to tackle the problem. http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| Finalise rural medical course, court tells MCI Posted: 09 Aug 2012 11:26 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) New Delhi, Aug 9 - The Delhi High Court Thursday directed the Medical Council of India - to finalise within six weeks the curriculum for starting a three-and-half years course for non-MBBS physicians to practise medicine in rural health centres. Justice Rajiv Shakdher said that on failing to finalise the curriculum of Bachelor of Rural Health Care -, the MCI secretary shall remain personally present during the next hearing Oct 18. Filing a contempt petition, petitioner Meenakshi Gautam said that on Nov 10, 2010, the court ordered the MCI to start by March 2011 the BRHC course but no action was taken. Senior counsel Prashant Bhushan, appearing for Gautam, complained that the delay in starting the course was leading to a serious situation where people in rural areas were being deprived of healthcare facilities. The central government submitted before the court that it was ready to start the course, but was still waiting for the MCI to finalise the curriculum. The petition said: The court had given the MCI two months' time to finalise the curriculum and syllabus of the primary healthcare practitioner course...A further period of two months was given to the ministry of health and family welfare for the enforcement of the same. The Medical Council of India apparently opposed the course in 2011 and was not willing to notify it, the petition alleged. http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| Source of conflict: Study finds factors that can shape divorced mothers' co-parenting experiences Posted: 09 Aug 2012 05:00 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) SALINA, KAN. -- The type of relationship a woman has with her ex-partner is a factor in how the couple shares custody of children, according to a Kansas State University expert on postdivorce and co-parenting relationships. In a study of divorced or separated mothers sharing physical custody of their children with their former partners, Mindy Markham, assistant professor of family studies and human services on the university's Salina campus, identified three patterns of co-parenting -- continuously contentious, always amicable and bad to better -- as well as negative and positive factors that influenced the mothers' co-parenting relationships. Markham's study involved 20 predominately white, well-educated women between the ages of 26 to 49 who were divorced or separated from the father of their children. The mothers, from two Midwestern states, shared with their former partners legal and physical custody of the children, who ranged in age from 21 months to 12 years. At the time of the study, the couples had been separated or divorced from six months to 12 years. The findings of this study suggest that shared physical custody relationships are dynamic and can vary greatly, Markham said. Today it is common for both ex-spouses to share legal and physical custody of children after divorcing. But Markham said few studies have looked at the process of co-parenting, so little is known about how divorced parents negotiate the co-parenting process. In Markham's study, nine mothers had continuously contentious co-parenting relationships with their ex-partners from the time of separation to the present. The negative factors that contributed to this rocky relationship included the mother's perception of her ex's parenting abilities; financial concerns, including the ex not having a job or not paying child support; control or abuse by the ex-partner; and the inability of the ex to separate marital -- or personal -- issues from the... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| UIC study examines exercise and weight loss for older adults with osteoarthritis Posted: 09 Aug 2012 05:00 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) The University of Illinois at Chicago has been awarded a $3 million grant to study the effectiveness of two community-based health promotion programs for older adults with osteoarthritis. The research is funded by the National Institute on Aging. The study will compare Fit and Strong!, an evidence-based physical activity and health behavior change program, with Fit and Strong! Plus, the traditional program with an added weight management/dietary component. Fit and Strong! has proven effective for older adults with osteoarthritis, the most common chronic condition and the primary cause of disability in older adults. Fit and Strong! can improve joint stiffness, pain and function, anxiety/depression, lower extremity strength and gait speed and enhance maintenance of physical activity in older adults for up to 18 months, said Susan Hughes, co-principal investigator of the project and co-director of the Center for Research on Health and Aging at UIC's Institute for Health Research and Policy. While the traditional program has been very successful, we felt that we needed to address the underlying weight issues that cause or exacerbate lower extremity osteoarthritis, Hughes said. In the new study, researchers will enroll 400 adults ages 60 and older with lower extremity osteoarthritis who have a body mass index of between 25 and 50. Half will be enrolled in Fit and Strong! and half in Fit and Strong! Plus. Participants in Fit and Strong! Plus will participate in the traditional program and will also receive dietary and weight loss interactive sessions. The goal is to achieve a minimum 5 percent weight loss by increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables, decreasing saturated fats and sugar sweetened drinks, reducing overall calorie consumption, and learning to manage triggers that can lead to overeating. The weight loss component is adapted from a successful weight loss trial funded by the National Cancer Institute that was... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| Court notice to 12 private hospitals in Delhi Posted: 08 Aug 2012 10:16 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) New Delhi, Aug 8 - The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to 12 private hospitals for their alleged failure to comply with its earlier order to give free treatment to poor patients. A bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw sought response from the 12 hospitals, which were given land at subsidised rates by the government, by Aug 30. The court's direction came on a plea seeking initiation of contempt of court proceedings against these hospitals for their failure to comply with the court's March 22, 2007, order. The court in 2007, while hearing a public interest litigation, ruled that all private hospitals given subsidised government land must treat the poor free of cost. While holding free treatment to the poor as obligatory for such hospitals, the court had said that the institutions were obliged to provide free treatment up to 25 percent in their out-patient departments and 10 percent of their in-patient departments. Advocate Ashok Aggarwal, appearing for NGO Social Jurist which filed the plea seeking initiation of contempt of court proceedings, sought direction to the hospitals to follow the lease deed conditions. http://www.rxpgnews.com |
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