A growing breed of allopaths is digging into ancient texts to blend age-old cures with modern therapies. For many doctors there is no conflict between allopathy and traditional systems of medicine.
They are doctors who have come to believe that allopathy and traditional systems of medicines don't have to be in conflict, but can complement each other in restoring health.
Read more: Chyavanprash meets Crocin - The Times of India
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Examine mouth for early signs of AIDS
CHENNAI: The age-old custom of the doctor asking you to open your mouth wide for a close look might probably tell more than many modern diagnostic techniques.
Read more:The Times of India
Read more:The Times of India
Stop Smoking
Tobacco smoke causes instant damage to DNA
No Risk-Free Level Of Exposure,Warn Experts
Washington: Cigarette smoke causes immediate damage to a person's lungs and their DNA even in small amounts,including from second-hand smoke,US federal officials said in a new report.
Taxes,bans and treatment must all be pursued to bring smoking rates down,US surgeon-general Regina Benjamin said.The chemicals in tobacco smoke reach your lungs quickly every time you inhale causing damage immediately, she said in a statement.Inhaling even the smallest amount of tobacco smoke can also damage your DNA,which can lead to cancer, she said.
The report said tobacco companies deliberately designed cigarettes and other tobacco products to be addictive.
Tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals and compounds,including hundreds that are toxic and at least 70 that cause cancer,the report said.That means there is no risk-free level of exposure to tobacco smoke.Even a whiff of tobacco smoke can adversely impact the body,the report says.The lining of the lungs becomes inflamed as soon as it is exposed to cigarette smoke,and,over time,the smoke can cause chronic lung diseases such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis,according to the report.AGENCIES
No Risk-Free Level Of Exposure,Warn Experts
Washington: Cigarette smoke causes immediate damage to a person's lungs and their DNA even in small amounts,including from second-hand smoke,US federal officials said in a new report.
Taxes,bans and treatment must all be pursued to bring smoking rates down,US surgeon-general Regina Benjamin said.The chemicals in tobacco smoke reach your lungs quickly every time you inhale causing damage immediately, she said in a statement.Inhaling even the smallest amount of tobacco smoke can also damage your DNA,which can lead to cancer, she said.
The report said tobacco companies deliberately designed cigarettes and other tobacco products to be addictive.
Tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals and compounds,including hundreds that are toxic and at least 70 that cause cancer,the report said.That means there is no risk-free level of exposure to tobacco smoke.Even a whiff of tobacco smoke can adversely impact the body,the report says.The lining of the lungs becomes inflamed as soon as it is exposed to cigarette smoke,and,over time,the smoke can cause chronic lung diseases such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis,according to the report.AGENCIES
Success Story : Malini Chib
NEW DELHI: Malini Chib has been proving people wrong all her life. She first showed up the doctors when she survived beyond the seven months they said she had. An umbilical cord wrapped around her neck at birth cutting off oxygen to the brain had resulted in cerebral palsy.
Chib has two master's degrees in Gender Studies and Library Science and has put her experiences down in a book One Little Finger released on World Disability Day.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/With-2-masters-book-shes-defeated-disability/articleshow/7101818.cms#ixzz19U4A9WSg
Chib has two master's degrees in Gender Studies and Library Science and has put her experiences down in a book One Little Finger released on World Disability Day.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/With-2-masters-book-shes-defeated-disability/articleshow/7101818.cms#ixzz19U4A9WSg
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Great Moment for Cancer KIds
Sachin's 50th century raises hopes for cancer kids
MUMBAI: Housemaid Suman Wadtele's world came crashing down when her 10-year-old son, Durgesh, was diagnosed with blood cancer six months back in Pune's KEM Hospital. The medical bill was one of the many worries that the widowed mother was grappling with when a cheque for Rs 15,000 towards Durgesh's chemotherapy arrived from an unexpected quarter: a fund started by none other than willow wizard Sachin Tendulkar aka Batman Forever.
MUMBAI: Housemaid Suman Wadtele's world came crashing down when her 10-year-old son, Durgesh, was diagnosed with blood cancer six months back in Pune's KEM Hospital. The medical bill was one of the many worries that the widowed mother was grappling with when a cheque for Rs 15,000 towards Durgesh's chemotherapy arrived from an unexpected quarter: a fund started by none other than willow wizard Sachin Tendulkar aka Batman Forever.
Water and Sanitation Program (WSP),
Poor sanitation cost India $54b
70% Of Economic Impact On GDP in 06 Health-Related,Says Report
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Inadequate sanitation cost India almost $54 billion or 6.4% of the countrys GDP in 2006.Over 70% of this economic impact or about $38.5 billion was health-related with diarrhoea followed by acute lower respiratory infections accounting for 12% of the health-related impacts.
These estimates are from The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Sanitation in India,a new report released on Monday by the a global partnership administered by the World Bank.
Christopher Juan Costain,WSP regional leader for South Asia pointed out that the report helped to quantify the economic losses to India due to inadequate sanitation and also showed that children and poor households bore the brunt of poor sanitation.
More than three-fourth of the premature mortality-related economic losses are due to deaths and diseases in children younger than five.Diarrhoea among these children accounts for over 47% of the total health-related impact,that is nearly $18 billion dollars.
The report estimates that in rural areas,where 50% of households are said to have access to improved sanitation,there are almost 575 million people defecating in the open.Similarly,in urban areas where 60-70 % of the households are said to have access to sanitation,54 million people defecate in the open and over 60% of the waste water is discharged untreated.This has led to huge public health costs,besides causing 450,000 deaths.It has led to an estimated 575 million cases of diarrhoea,and 350,000 deaths from diarrhoea alone,in the under-five age group.
It is the poorest who bear the greatest cost due to inadequate sanitation.The poorest fifth of the urban population bears the highest per capita economic impact of Rs 1,699,much more than the national average per capita loss due to inadequate sanitation,which is Rs 961.Among rural households too,the poorest fifth bears the highest per capita loss in the rural area at over Rs 1,000. And these are hugely underestimated estimates because we have excluded mortality impacts, Costain says.The report admitted that many economic impacts like other diseases influenced by hygiene and sanitation and the impacts on pregnant women,low birthweight and long-term health had not been covered.
Health impacts,accounting for the bulk of the economic impacts,are followed by the economic losses due to the time spent in obtaining piped water and sanitation facilities,about $15 billion,and about $0.26 billion of potential tourism revenue lost due to Indias reputation for poor sanitation,the report says.
Source: Times of India
70% Of Economic Impact On GDP in 06 Health-Related,Says Report
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Inadequate sanitation cost India almost $54 billion or 6.4% of the countrys GDP in 2006.Over 70% of this economic impact or about $38.5 billion was health-related with diarrhoea followed by acute lower respiratory infections accounting for 12% of the health-related impacts.
These estimates are from The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Sanitation in India,a new report released on Monday by the a global partnership administered by the World Bank.
Christopher Juan Costain,WSP regional leader for South Asia pointed out that the report helped to quantify the economic losses to India due to inadequate sanitation and also showed that children and poor households bore the brunt of poor sanitation.
More than three-fourth of the premature mortality-related economic losses are due to deaths and diseases in children younger than five.Diarrhoea among these children accounts for over 47% of the total health-related impact,that is nearly $18 billion dollars.
The report estimates that in rural areas,where 50% of households are said to have access to improved sanitation,there are almost 575 million people defecating in the open.Similarly,in urban areas where 60-70 % of the households are said to have access to sanitation,54 million people defecate in the open and over 60% of the waste water is discharged untreated.This has led to huge public health costs,besides causing 450,000 deaths.It has led to an estimated 575 million cases of diarrhoea,and 350,000 deaths from diarrhoea alone,in the under-five age group.
It is the poorest who bear the greatest cost due to inadequate sanitation.The poorest fifth of the urban population bears the highest per capita economic impact of Rs 1,699,much more than the national average per capita loss due to inadequate sanitation,which is Rs 961.Among rural households too,the poorest fifth bears the highest per capita loss in the rural area at over Rs 1,000. And these are hugely underestimated estimates because we have excluded mortality impacts, Costain says.The report admitted that many economic impacts like other diseases influenced by hygiene and sanitation and the impacts on pregnant women,low birthweight and long-term health had not been covered.
Health impacts,accounting for the bulk of the economic impacts,are followed by the economic losses due to the time spent in obtaining piped water and sanitation facilities,about $15 billion,and about $0.26 billion of potential tourism revenue lost due to Indias reputation for poor sanitation,the report says.
Source: Times of India
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Malaria And Tuberculosis
Malaria, along with tuberculosis, continues to be one of the world's most lethal diseases with half the world's population — about 3.3 billion people — at risk from it, according to the latest World Malaria Report 2009, released by WHO last December. Over 243 million confirmed cases of malaria were reported from across the world, of which an estimated 863,000 died. The biggest burden of malaria is borne by Africa with nearly 90% of cases, most being children below 5 years.
Read more: Half the world at risk of malaria: WHO - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Half-the-world-at-risk-of-malaria-WHO/articleshow/5854819.cms#ixzz18ood63Pq
Read more: Half the world at risk of malaria: WHO - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Half-the-world-at-risk-of-malaria-WHO/articleshow/5854819.cms#ixzz18ood63Pq
Monday, December 20, 2010
Poorest district
Jharkhand’s Palamu — one of India’s poorest districts with a per-capita income of Rs12,742 a year, according to the Institute of Human Development (IHD) — is home to about 2 million people engaged mostly in farming.
About 30% of them, mostly tribals and dalits, live below the official poverty line, according to IHD. Several just die. Palamu is a hotbed of bonded labour. Feudal lords ruled the region for decades; semi-feudal conditions still exist. Low productivity in the fields and a poor labour market have over the years sent the agrarian district into a depressing socio-economic spiral
About 30% of them, mostly tribals and dalits, live below the official poverty line, according to IHD. Several just die. Palamu is a hotbed of bonded labour. Feudal lords ruled the region for decades; semi-feudal conditions still exist. Low productivity in the fields and a poor labour market have over the years sent the agrarian district into a depressing socio-economic spiral
Friday, December 10, 2010
Blue Trunk Libraries
Few months past, i visited Sweden, there i came to know about WHO's BLUE TRUNK LIBRARIES that is what i wish to share with you.
The Blue Trunk Library has been developed by the Library of the World Health Organization for installation in district health centres in Africa as a means of compensating for the lack of up-to-date medical and health information.
The collection, which is organized according to major subjects, contains more than one hundred books on medicine and public health.
SOURCE:http://www.who.int/
The Blue Trunk Library has been developed by the Library of the World Health Organization for installation in district health centres in Africa as a means of compensating for the lack of up-to-date medical and health information.
The collection, which is organized according to major subjects, contains more than one hundred books on medicine and public health.
SOURCE:http://www.who.int/
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Mid-Day Meal Scheme
With a view to enhancing enrollment, retention and attendance and simultaneously improving nutritional levels among children, the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP-NSPE) was launched as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme on 15th August 1995.
SOURCE:http://india.gov.in/sectors/education/mid_day_meal.php
SOURCE:http://india.gov.in/sectors/education/mid_day_meal.php
Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)
Hunger Kills: Thanks to Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). It is the only major national programme that addresses the health and nutrition needs of children under the age of six. It seeks to provide young children with an integrated package of services, including supplementary nutrition, health care and pre-school education. Since the needs of a young child cannot be addressed in isolation from those of his or her mother, the programme also extends to adolescent girls, pregnant women and nursing mothers. ICDS services are provided through a vast network of ICDS centres, better known as "Anganwadis".
Source :http://righttofoodindia.org/icds/icds_index.html
Source :http://righttofoodindia.org/icds/icds_index.html
Friday, December 3, 2010
Information seeking behavior of medical students
Based on my personal experience and observations at AIIMS Library, it is worth saying that librarians exercise less control of the learning environment than they used to.
In medical colleges, students are no longer dependent on carefully selected textbooks or the authoritative collections in the medical library. Rather, they face and take advantage of a vast, often unstructured, mass of information.
So, all the library services should be facilitated through web so as to increase the use of valuable library resources.
Worth reading :http://informationr.net/ir/14-4/paper418.html#limXX
In medical colleges, students are no longer dependent on carefully selected textbooks or the authoritative collections in the medical library. Rather, they face and take advantage of a vast, often unstructured, mass of information.
So, all the library services should be facilitated through web so as to increase the use of valuable library resources.
Worth reading :http://informationr.net/ir/14-4/paper418.html#limXX
Oldest newspaper
The first newspaper of India 'The Bengal Gazette' started on 29th January 1780. James Augustus Hicky was the founder of India's first newspaper.
Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)
The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) is a response to redress the limited institutional capacity in India for strengthening training, research and policy development in the area of Public Health. It is a public private partnership that was collaboratively evolved through consultations with multiple constituencies.
Source : http://www.phfi.org/
Source : http://www.phfi.org/
Thursday, December 2, 2010
ACCREDITED SOCIAL HEALTH ACTIVIST (ASHA)
The Government of India launched National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to address the health needs of rural population, especially the vulnerable sections of society. The Sub-centre is the most peripheral level of contact with the community under the public health infrastructure.
One of the key strategies under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) is having a community health worker - Accredited Social Health Activist for every village with a population of 1000.ASHA is a health activist in the community who creates awareness on health and its social determinants and mobilize the community towards local health planning and increased utilization and accountability of the existing health services. She is a promoter of good health practices. She provides a minimum package of curative care as appropriate and feasible for that level and make timely referrals.
Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) under the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) are engaged in organizing supplementary nutrition programmes and other supportive activities.
Source: http://www.mohfw.nic.in/eag/accredited_social_health_activis.htm
One of the key strategies under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) is having a community health worker - Accredited Social Health Activist for every village with a population of 1000.ASHA is a health activist in the community who creates awareness on health and its social determinants and mobilize the community towards local health planning and increased utilization and accountability of the existing health services. She is a promoter of good health practices. She provides a minimum package of curative care as appropriate and feasible for that level and make timely referrals.
Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) under the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) are engaged in organizing supplementary nutrition programmes and other supportive activities.
Source: http://www.mohfw.nic.in/eag/accredited_social_health_activis.htm
Library Science Education in India
The journey of library science education in India started in 1910 when Borden on the invitation of Shiyaji Rao Gayakward III came to Gujrat to impart LIS education and started a certificate course in Library Science.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Lady Hardinge Medical college, New Delhi
This college library serves the faculty, clinicians and students of Smt. SK hospital and Kalawati SC Hospital.
Available at: http://www.lhmc.in/library.asp
Available at: http://www.lhmc.in/library.asp
Maulana Azad Medical College Library
This library serves the need of clinicians, students and faculty of GB Pant Hospital and Lok Nayak Hospital
Available at:
http://library.mamc.ac.in/about.html
http://www.mamc.ac.in/library.htm
Available at:
http://library.mamc.ac.in/about.html
http://www.mamc.ac.in/library.htm
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