adminNew Delhi, March 18, 2018 :
Morning Health Talk
1. Meeting of the Board of Directors of “Foundation for Disease Elimination and Control of India” shall be held on Tuesday, 17th April, 2018
2. AMR update: Kill the bugs and not the drugs. Avoid antibiotic resistance
3. Culture First: Sterile sites are sites where bacteria are not present in absence of infection [CSF, pleural fluid, pericardial fluid, synovial fluid, peritoneal fluid). Any bacteria detected on Gram stain here should be considered significant although a negative Gram stain does not exclude infection
4. Healthy home ( KK Aggarwal, JK Jain)- Water purification: Boil for 3 minutes followed by cooling to room temperature (do not add ice) to kill bacteria, parasites, and viruses.
5. Antibiotic fluoroquinolones are associated with aortic aneurysm and dissection as per a population-based study from Sweden reported in The BMJ. The risk is highest in the first 10 days of initiating treatment.
6. Greater air pollution exposure among blacks may be contributing to survival and heart disease disparities, investigators reported in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
7. Treatment in a hospital with better 30-day mortality rate performance for Heart Failure patients is associated with better survival 5 years later [JAMA Cardiology]. Look for the credibility of the hospital.
8. Bad sweet news for Crohns patients: A new 6 weeks study has shown that artificial sweetener (sucralose- splenda) intensify gut inflammation. [Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine]
9. Bio-Med’s Vi-conjugate typhoid vaccine ‘Peda Typh’ fails in CDSCO quality test. The DCGI has notifications to drug controllers of all states to keep strict vigil on movements of TC010915 and TC010417 batch (pharmabiz)
10. Countries ranking lower on the United Nations Human Development Index carry a disproportionately higher burden of surgical site infections & have higher rates of antibiotic resistance [Lancet Infectious Diseases]
11. Future #antibiotics : Platypus MILK contains unique antibacterial properties. Scientists have now isolated the protein in platypus milk that is responsible for these properties
12. Patients with high-grade poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinomas typically present with widespread metastases. In addition to the liver (the commonest site) other common metastatic sites include bone, lung, and brain
13. Many pancreatic Neuro Endocrine tumors express high levels of somatostatin receptors and can therefore be imaged with a radiolabeled form of the somatostatin analog octreotide (111-In pentetreotide [OctreoScan])
14. NACo & RNTCP are organizing a workshop to discuss on the Standard operating procedures for expanding TB-HIV collaborative activities in the private sector for notified TB cases on 19th March 2018 with support from USAID and PATH.
15. Financial Express: Kerala government’s finance department has planned to provide a health cover of up to Rs 6 lakh for government employees and pensioners.
16. The Hindu: Priorities of the common man, which include access to potable water, education, employment and healthcare, should be addressed since a lack of access to those facilities leads to alienation, Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan said on Friday.
17. The Navhind Times: With the proposed healthcare and insurance schemes for the disabled population in the state, the government intends to fully implement the central legislation namely Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act in Goa from the forthcoming financial year 2018-
18. Pharmabiz: There should be a Clinical Establishment Act for Maharshtra for effective regulation of hospitals and clinics in the state pointed out Dr. Deepak Sawant, Minister of Health, Government of Maharashtra.
19. The Hindu: The work on the construction of a 220-bed super-speciality hospital attached to Mysuru Medical College and Research Institute (MMCRI) for which Chief Minister Siddaramaiah recently laid the foundation stone on the premises of PKTB Sanatorium may be “delayed” for “technical” reasons.
20. Amazon has made a big hire for its secret health care division internally known as 1492, according to CNBC: FDA’s first chief health informatics officer Taha Kass-Hout.
21. Union Health Minister J P Nadda today said that a programme would be developed soon to provide free drugs for Hepatitis B.
22. Researchers from the National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research-Indian Council of Medical Research (NICPR-ICMR) co-authored the paper which says that the proportion of women getting diagnosed with cancer in India is higher than men.
