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- Lucknow doctors to head two new AIIMS
- Many slum, civic body-run school kids have worms: Study
- Vidya Stokes recipe for longevity - no grains for 50 years
- Pharmacists need to provide better information to teenagers on risks and benefits of medicines
- Missing Rajasthan official's wife hospitalised
- Singapore doctors promote organ donation
| Lucknow doctors to head two new AIIMS Posted: 04 Sep 2011 05:21 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Lucknow, Sep 4 - Of the six new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences - coming up in different states, two will be headed by doctors from this Uttar Pradesh capital. G.K. Singh and Sandeep Kumar -- surgeons working at the century-old King George's Medical College - have been selected to head the new AIIMS at Patna in Bihar and Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh respectively. The other AIIMS are located at Jodhpur in Rajasthan, Raipur in Chhattisgarh, Rishikesh in Uttarakhand and Bhubaneswar in Orissa. 'The decision to set up AIIMS on the lines of the 50-year-old AIIMS in New Delhi was taken by the central government a couple of years ago to make tertiary medical care available to common people in different parts of the country,' Singh told IANS. 'I am told that all the new AIIMS would become functional by 2012,' said Kumar. Singh is the head of the orthopaedics surgery department and Kumar heads the breast surgery department. Both have had brilliant academic records and wide experience in their respective disciplines. Singh is an alumnae of King George's Medical College where he topped his batch, while Kumar passed out with a gold medal from the Allahabad Medical College. Both joined King George's Medical College as lecturers and have been teaching there for three decades. While Singh was a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons, Kumar did his Ph.D from Cardiff University and was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Singh has the distinction of doing a stint as advisor at the B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in Nepal. Both said they would assume their new offices later this month. The academic session at the Patna and Bhopal AIIMS is expected to commence from 2012. http://www.rxpgnews.com    |
| Many slum, civic body-run school kids have worms: Study Posted: 04 Sep 2011 01:08 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) New Delhi, Sep 4 - A high percentage of intestinal worms has been found among children living in slums and those in Municipal Corporation of Delhi --run schools, according to a survey. Soil-transmitted helminths, commonly known as intestinal worms, are the most common infections worldwide affecting the most deprived communities. Worm infestations lead to a chronic condition that harms health, nutrition and development of children. An 18.86 percent of MCD-run school children were found to have helminths. Slum children infested with the parasite were 18.79 percent, while 9.91 percent children of Delhi government schools were found to be carrying worms. The highest prevalence of this worm was found in northeast Delhi at 26.7 percent, while 25.4 percent children of central Delhi were infested with it, said the study. 'In India, the burden of disease caused by soil-transmitted helminths is enormous. Although these helminths can infest all members of a population, the most vulnerable groups are pre-children, adolescent girls, and women of childbearing age and school-age,' stated the study conducted by Deworm the World, an NGO. Globally, over 400 million school-age children are estimated to be at high-risk for parasitic worm infestations. 'Despite the extent of this problem, and its serious detrimental impact on children, parasitic worm infestations have been an extremely neglected problem,' says the study. It was based on a heterogeneous sample of 3,251 children from 40 Delhi government schools. A total of 40 MCD schools with a sample size of 1,108 and 48 slums across Delhi participated. http://www.rxpgnews.com   |
| Vidya Stokes recipe for longevity - no grains for 50 years Posted: 04 Sep 2011 10:53 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Shimla, Sep 4 - 'Age cannot wither her nor can custom stale her infinite variety,' is what Shakespeare wrote for Cleopatra. The same, it seems, could be true for Himachal Pradesh's 'iron lady' and leader of opposition Vidya Stokes, who has been on a non-cereal diet for 50 years. No grains for this doughty, energetic 84-year-old, who eats salads, soups, vegetables and dal. And the octogenarian is growing stronger. 'This is the power of food,' Stokes told IANS in an interview. It began some five decades ago when Stokes, a Congress leader and a long-time administrator of women's hockey, was holidaying in Europe with her husband -. 'During the vacation, I decided to forgo grains,' said Stokes, a prominent apple cultivator in the region. 'We were invited by an Indian friend for a dinner during our stay in Germany. A number of Europeans were also invited. One of the Europeans remarked that 'Indians are literally crazy for grains. They are obsessed with sugar and white flour. They eat a lot of trash most of the time'.' 'Thereafter, I encountered a book written by American nutritionist - Hauser in a bookstore in Germany. As I was going through the book, I was making up my mind to forgo grains as they cause obesity, excess release of fat-promoting insulin and trigger digestive problems,' she said. She returned to India, astonishing everybody with her decision to stop eating grains. No more rice or chapatis for her. 'Initially, I had to face a lot of problems, especially from my husband. He was quite upset with my decision of not savouring even non-vegetarian dishes. My family members used to laugh at me,' recalled Stokes, whose family is credited with pushing Himachal Pradesh's apple boom. 'This is my secret of staying fit and active. There are a lot of people who are regularly consuming grains that make them sick... I still don't take medicines,' she said. Stokes, who was power minister in Himachal Pradesh from 2003 to 2007,... http://www.rxpgnews.com   |
| Pharmacists need to provide better information to teenagers on risks and benefits of medicines Posted: 04 Sep 2011 05:00 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Hyderabad, India: A large proportion of teenagers regularly and frequently take some form of medication without receiving targeted information about the risks and benefits, according to a review of current research, to be presented at the annual congress of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) tomorrow (Tuesday). Dr Priya Bahri will tell delegates that 35% of boys and 45% of girls in Europe and the USA take painkillers for headaches every month. In addition, they take a variety of other medicines for things like stomach aches, sleeping disorders, nervousness, asthma, infectious diseases and for pregnancy prevention. Most teenagers take their medicines appropriately, but there is evidence of accidental or intentional inappropriate use or misuse, she says. At a time when young people want to be independent of their parents and make their own decisions about their bodies and medications, they feel misunderstood by healthcare professionals, have concerns over side effects and may be confused by information coming from a variety of sources such as their friends, their family, the internet, the news, and the healthcare professionals they encounter, says Dr Bahri, who is the pharmacovigilance lead for guidelines and risk communication at the European Medicines Agency (London, UK), but who was speaking in a personal capacity. [1] Part of teenage life is starting to make your own health choices. The medicines that teenagers use most frequently and largely autonomously include those for asthma, and painkillers such as paracetamol and ibuprofen. Every month in Europe and the USA, about 35% of boys and 45% of girls use painkillers for headaches. Teenagers also use other medicines: every month 32% use them for stomach aches, 6% for sleeping disorders and 6% for nervousness. The prevalence of asthma, one of the most frequent chronic disorders worldwide, is around 10% in teenagers, so most of those with this condition will be... http://www.rxpgnews.com   |
| Missing Rajasthan official's wife hospitalised Posted: 03 Sep 2011 09:33 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Jaipur, Sep 3 - The wife of missing Rajasthan official Naveen Jain was Saturday admitted to the intensive care unit - of a hospital here after she took ill, an official said. Jain, an Indian Administrative Service - officer, has remained untraced for the fourth day Sunday. Sawai Man Singh Hospital authorities said his wife Sunita Jain was not having food properly since his disappearance and is suffering from acute anxiety. 'Her family members brought her to the hospital around 6 p.m. and after a brief observation, she was admitted to the ICU keeping in view her condition. She is likely to get treatment here at least for a day,? a hospital doctor told IANS. Police have failed to locate Jain even four days after he went missing from a restaurant in the state's Alwar district Tuesday morning. Jain, 36, was posted as commissioner in the state's settlement department in Jaipur. He left behind a note for his wife and son that they should take care of themselves. According to police, Jain had gone to a restaurant in Shahajanpur, some 150 km from here, along with his wife and son for breakfast. 'While they were having food, Jain got up from the table on the pretext of making a call and walked out,' said Additional Superintendent of Police Sangram Singh. Jain then left a note in their car parked outside. 'In the note, he repented that he had not been able to provide a house to his family. He said that he was going somewhere and should not be disturbed,' said the officer. The entire state police machinery was jolted into action following the officer's disappearance. Teams were sent to Haryana and Delhi and exit routes of the state were being checked. Sources said Jain was transferred to Jaipur in the first week of August from Baran, where he was posted as district collector. Sunita earlier claimed that he was depressed because of the controversy over allotment of an official residence to him. 'He was depressed after it was... http://www.rxpgnews.com   |
| Singapore doctors promote organ donation Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:25 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) New Delhi, Sep 3 - A team of doctors from Singapore on a visit here said Saturday that people should not hesitate in donating kidney and liver to help the needy. The surgeons are on a visit to promote the latest developments in liver and kidney transplant and optimising organ donation, ethically. ?Today there are no medical barriers but only mental barriers. People are still afraid of donating their organs,? said Roger Tan, a nephrologist at Singapore?s Parkway hospital. ?There are cases galore where a patient?s condition has gone from bad to worse because we are not able to find a suitable donor,? he added. The doctors said that unlike India where the law states that only a relative can donate his or her kidney to a patient, in Singapore there was no such law. ?It offers a window to that small number of patients who can?t find a donor due to this law,? said gastroenterologist Lai Wai Kwan Vincent. The human organs transplantation legislation in India allows organ donation only from close relative. This has however given way to illegal trade in organs. An amendment in the legislation is proposed to ease the norms. The Transplantation of Human Organs - Bill, which has been passed by parliament and now has to be notified, eases the norms allowing swapping of organs. A pair of donor and recipient who are near relatives but whose organs do not medically match for transplantation are permitted by the bill to swap organs with another similar pair. The bill increases the penalty for unauthorised removal of human organs and for receiving or making payment for human organs. The visiting doctors said that with no such strict laws being in place in Singapore, organ transplantations were much easier. They said that scrutiny was done in case to check abuse of the system. ?The donor is examined by a psychiatrist as well,? said Vincent. Our patients get the highest standard of post treatment care which includes a close monitor even when... http://www.rxpgnews.com   |
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