Morning MEDTalks with Dr KK Aggarwal

June 8, 2018
Morning Medtalks with Dr KK Aggarwal

2% smokers are screened for lung cancer as against 65% of 40 plus women screened for breast cancer

Morning Health Talk :

New Delhi, 08June, 2018

Clinical

  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unveiled a new rabies rapid test that can more easily and precisely diagnose rabies infections in animals. The LN34 pan-lyssavirus real-time polymerase chain reaction assay (LN34) displays a higher diagnostic capability when compared to the direct fluorescent antibody test, the current gold standard.
  • A former patient is suing UPMC (in US) for negligence after learning she was among thousands of people potentially exposed to tuberculosis by an emergency room nurse who may have been contagious with the infectious disease for four consecutive months. The plaintiff is seeking more than $25,000 in damages.
  • A total of 12 patients may have died since 2016 due to complications from weight-loss balloon surgery, the Food and Drug Administration. Officials are keeping an eye on the Orbera Intragastric Balloon System from Austin, Texas-based Apollo Endosurgery and San Clemente, California-based ReShape Lifesciences’ ReShape Integrated Dual Balloon System.
  • Union Heath Minister said India has seen a decline in its Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) from 139 to 130. India’s MMR has significantly fallen from 167 in 2011-13 to the present figure of 130, as per the latest Sample Registration System (SRS) figures.

Public Health

  • WHO has paid glowing tributes to Kerala’s young nurse Lini Puthussery, who died of Nipah virus last month, after treating one of the patients. Lini died on May 21 after being infected by a patient, whom she treated initially at the Perambra Taluk hospital, where she was a nurse. In a tweet, WHO’S Health Workforce Director Jim Campbellsaid: “Remember them, lest we forget: Razan al-Najjar (Gaza); Lini Puthussery (India); Salome Karwah (Liberia). #WomeninGlobalHealth, #NotATarget. A 28-year-old mother of two young boys, Lini died at the Kozhikode Medical college hospital days after being infected.

Editors Views: If an army person dies he gets a national honour why not when a doctor or nurse dies on duty.

  •  Ira Gupta Reports: A 58-year-old woman in Jharkhand’s Giridih district died allegedly due to starvation of three days as an official team that visited her home found no food in House. Probe has been ordered as to why Savitri Devi, did not have a ration card and whether she had formally applied for one. She lived along with her two daughter-in-laws and four grandchildren, all surviving on little money sent by her elder son, who worked in a Private Company in Maharashtra. Since October 2017 and the death of a 15-year-old girl in Simdega, Jharkhand has seen more than half-a-dozen cases of alleged starvation deaths. Government in February,2018 announced a Committee, largely comprising activists in field of right-to-food, to define the criteria on basis of which a death could be categorised as having been caused due to hunger or starvation. (Latestlaws.com)

Views: A person can only die of starvation in three days if he or she is deprived of water also.

Dr KK Aggarwal
Padma Shri Awardee
Vice President CMAAO
President HCFI

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Health Tips

Dr. T S Kler Padma Bhushan Awardee
MD, DM, MRCP, FRCP(U.K), FACC, D.Sc
Chairman – Fortis Heart Institute Gurugram

Precautions to avoid Corona Virus:

  1. Stay home as far as possible.
  2. Wash hands with soap and water frequently.
  3. Keep distance from people even your home members.
  4. Keep atleast 1-2 metres away from anybody coughing.
  5. Don’t touch your face, nose and mouth.

 

Dr. K.K Says

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