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Doctor suspended for advertising about remedies for ailments
In a first such action, the Travancore Cochin Medical Council has suspended for a month the registration of an Ayurvedic doctor after finding him guilty of violating the Drugs and Magic Remedies (objectionable advertisement) Act. The action was taken on a complaint by the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad, which had filed the complaint before the council seeking action against the physician for violating provisions of the Act. Council sources said the Ayurvedic physician, Dr K Siddharthan of Kollam had been warned at first, but he continued to advertise about the cure for the various ailments through his treatment of "thulli marannu" (oral drops). It was then decided to launch proceedings against him, the sources said. The matter was probed by the council and it was found that Siddharthan had violated the code of ethics of a registered medical practioner and it was decided to hand over exemplary punishment to him, they said. The doctor has been advertising about his oral ...
Early Detection Cancer Camp Organized by Shree Ramkrishna Knowledge Foundation at Lathi Taluka in Amreli
/ -- Shree Ramkrishna Knowledge Foundation (SRKKF), Surat and The Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute (GCRI), Ahmedabad jointly organized an Early Detection Cancer Camp for local residents at Lathi Taluka in Amreli District of Gujarat at 'Lalji Dadano Vadlo' managed by Santokbaa Medical Centre on 16th June, 2019. (Photo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/926191/Cancer_Camp_Lathi_Amreli.jpg ) (Photo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/926192/Oncologist_Examining_Patients_Cancer_Camp.jpg ) (Photo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/926193/Patients_Arrived_for_Checkup.jpg ) The cancer camp aimed to spread awareness, diagnose and offer treatment of Breast Cancer, Cervical Cancer and Oral Cancer to the natives of Lathi. The team of GCRI was present with their 'Sanjivani Rath', a mobile cancer clinic equipped with modern facilities and medical equipments like digital radiography, mammography, endoscopy and tele medicine, etc. An expert team of doctors comprising of Onco Surgeon, Onco ...
Brain scans can detect Parkinson's years before symptom appear: Study
Brain scans can detect the earliest signs of Parkinson's disease -- many years before patients show any symptoms -- according to a Lancet study published Thursday. The research challenges the traditional view of the disease and could potentially lead to screening tools for identifying people at greatest risk. Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, after Alzheimer's disease. The disease is characterised by movement and cognitive problems but is known to become established in the brain a long time before patients are diagnosed. Studying the crucial early stages of the disease, when treatment could potentially slow its progress, is a huge challenge. Researchers from King's College London in the UK provide the first evidence of a central role for the brain chemical serotonin in the very earliest stages of Parkinson's. The results suggest changes to the serotonin system could act as a key early warning signal for the disease. "Parkinson's disease has ...
This International Yoga Day achieve overall wellness with California Walnuts
Yoga is gaining popularity across the world as an alternative well-being practice.A precious gift of India's ancient tradition, it is a form of exercise that combines physical and spiritual practice known worldwide to be the most effective in bringing holistic health and well-being to an individual.For those who practice yoga regularly know that it requires a lot of strength to hold your body right in an asana. Therefore, it is crucial to fuel your body with the right nutrition, such as those found in foods like walnuts to reap maximum benefits.As the fifth edition of International Yoga day is just around the corner, here are some easy tips by Naaznin Husein, a renowned Nutritionist, Yoga Consultant and Founder of Freedom Wellness Management to keep you healthy for a better future.Yoga and Eating RightMindful diet is vital to healing the body as well as the mind to reduce the risk of certain chronic diseases. To get the best out of your yoga practice, it is equally important to eat ...
Esperer Bioresearch plans to raise Rs 25-cr over next 9 months
Esperer Bioresearch said Thursday it is planning to raise around Rs 25 crore over the next nine months to strengthen and expand its presence in the country and overseas. The company is looking to set up a lifestyle specific nutra plant in India, besides expanding the global business in onco nutrition, the company said in a statement. It is also focusing on conducting country-specific clinical studies to take its products outside India, it added. "We are looking to raise approximately Rs 25 crore in a timeline of next six to nine months," Esperer Bioresearch founder and CEO Raktim Chattopadhyay said. The company has not raised any funds so far and has adopted internal seed funding, he added. To address the nutritional deficiencies in cancer patients in India, the company launched two health supplements on Wednesday, Esperer Bioresearch said.
Gay rights activists complain to EU over French blood donor sex ban
Gay rights groups said Thursday they had filed a complaint with the European Commission alleging discrimination by France over its ban on blood donations by gay men unless they abstain from sex for a year beforehand. The move came three years after France lifted a 30-year ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood, on condition they practise sexual abstinence for 12 months to guard against HIV transmission. "This rule, which is still in place, effectively excludes 93.8 percent of gay men from donating blood," said a joint statement by Stop Homophobie, Mousse, ELCS (Local officials against AIDS), SOS Homophobie and Familles LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender). The complaint was lodged Thursday with the commission in the hope that the policy will be formally recognised as illegally discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. Until July 2016, gay and bisexual men had been completely barred from donating blood under a ban which went into force in 1983 shortly after the HIV ..
Three more children die in Bihar, AES toll touches 118
Three more children suffering from Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) have died here since Wednesday evening, taking the total number of deaths caused due to the outbreak to 118, the district administration said Thursday. While two deaths were reported from the SKMCH hospital -- raising the toll at the government healthcare facility to 97 -- another child died at privately-owned Kejriwal hospital, where the total number of casualties has reached 20. One death was reported from East Champaran district two days ago. The total number of AES cases registered since June 1 was 398 at the SKMCH and 154 at Kejriwal hospital, according to figures provided by the district administration. Uttar Pradesh-based pediatrician Kafeel Khan, who was suspended last year following the deaths of a large number of Japanese encephalitis-afflicted children at a hospital in Gorakhpur, has landed at the north Bihar town to volunteer his service. The doctor, who has been running a "health for all" campaign after
Tejashwi in Delhi, closely monitoring Bihar's AES situation: Manoj Jha
Even as speculations were rife about RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav "missing" from the scene while the state grappled with a deadly outbreak of the encephalitis, party leader Manoj Jha on Thursday claimed he is in Delhi and closely monitoring the situation.Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) sources had earlier hinted out that Tejashwi could be in the national capital in connection with a hearing in a disproportionate assets case against him in a Delhi court."Our leader Tejashwi Yadav is closely monitoring the situation in Muzaffarpur. Currently, he is in Delhi," Rajya Sabha MP Jha told ANI when asked whereabouts of Yadav.Tejashwi, who has been known as one of the most vociferous critics of the Nitish Kumar-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, was criticised for being tight-lipped over the crisis in Muzaffarpur due to an outbreak of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES), which has claimed the lives of 117 people, majority of whom were children in the district alone.On Wednesday, RJD ...
Encephalitis outbreak: Sharad Yadav blames Nitish govt over failure of arrangements
Loktantrik Janata Dal chief Sharad Yadav, who visited the SKMCH hospital in Muzaffarpur on Thursday blamed the Nitish Kumar-led state government for the rising cases of encephalitis in the district."Doctors are doing well. We are so incapable to find out the reason behind this outbreak. Proper arrangements have not been put in place. It is a failure of arrangements. I believe if promises made earlier would have been fulfilled then we would not be facing this issue," Yadav told reporters outside the hospital.The death toll due to the encephalitis touched 117 on Thursday morning in Muzaffarpur district.As per the official data, a total of 98 deaths were reported at government-run Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) while 19 children died at Kejriwal hospital in the district due to the vector-borne disease till 8 am today.The AES is a viral disease that causes flu-like symptoms such as high fever, vomiting and in extreme cases, can lead to coma, brain dysfunction, seizure ...
Around 26 lakh people have availed treatment under Ayushman Bharat scheme so far: Kovind
Around 26 Lakh people have availed treatment so far in several hospitals across the country under the Ayushman Bharat scheme since its launch in September last year, President Ram Nath Kovind said Thursday. Addressing the joint sitting of Parliament, Kovind said the cost of medical treatment pushes the poor families into financial crisis. "In order to protect them (poor families) from this crisis, world's biggest healthcare scheme 'Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna (AB-PMJAY) has been implemented, providing 'Health-Protection-Cover' to 50 crore poor people. "Under this, so far about 26 lakh poor patients have availed treatment in hospitals," he said. In order to provide medicines at affordable rates, 5,300 'Jan Aushadhi Kendras' have also been opened. "It is our endeavour to provide medicines at affordable rates to people residing in far-flung areas through these 'Jan Aushadhi Kendras'," he said. Kovind further said till now,about 18,000 such Health and Wellness Centres .
Muzaffarpur: Prisoners' ward converted into ICU in SKMCH
Following the public outcry over lack of facilities in the government-run Shri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH), the hospital management has converted a prisoners' ward into an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to accommodate the rising number of encephalitis patients.The decision came after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar passed instructions to convert the prisoners' ward into ICU for children to meet the acute crisis of beds.Questions were raised over the lack of facilities in the hospital after three to four Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) affected children were being treated on a single bed.Arrangements are being made on a war footing by the hospital management to accommodate patients in the new ward as soon as possible.Manager of SKMCH, Sanjay Kumar Shah, told ANI, "We have converted this ward into an ICU and shifted the prisoners' ward. We have done this to accommodate more children. At least 19 more beds will be added here, which will increase the capacity. All the necessary .
Mini robot may help detect colon cancer
Scientists have created a tiny robotic capsule that can take images inside the colon, and could replace the invasive and often painful procedure of endoscopy to detect diseases like cancer. Known as a Sonopill, the device can be manoeuvred inside the colon to take micro-ultrasound images, which have the advantage of being better able to identify some types of cell change associated with cancer. The device could one day replace the need for patients to undergo an endoscopic examination, where a semi-rigid scope is passed into the bowel -- an invasive procedure that can be painful. The Sonopill is the culmination of a decade of research by an international consortium of engineers and scientists which developed a technique called intelligent magnetic manipulation. Based on the principle that magnets can attract and repel one another, a series of magnets on a robotic arm that passes over the patient interacts with a magnet inside the capsule, gently manoeuvring it through the colon, ...
Public to weigh in on revised California vaccine bill
Residents are getting their first chance to weigh in on changes to a California measure that would give state public health officials oversight of doctors who grant a high number of medical exemptions for vaccinations and schools with vaccination rates less than 95 per cent. The Assembly Health Committee's hearing is expected to draw hundreds of people against vaccines to the Capitol, as have prior hearings on the topic. Critics shouted "we will not comply" inside the Senate chambers last month as lawmakers voted on the measure. They will likely be countered once again by dozens of white-coated medical professionals and students voicing support for the bill. The hearing comes just days after Sen. Richard Pan, the bill's author, announced major changes to the legislation designed to win support from Gov. Gavin Newsom. The Democratic governor had expressed concern with requiring state health officials to sign off on every exemption, as the bill had initially required. Now, the public ...
Encephalitis: Death toll in Muzaffarpur touches 117
The death toll due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) touched 117 on Thursday morning in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district.As per data, a total of 98 deaths were reported at government-run Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital while 19 children died at Kejriwal hospital in the district due to the vector-borne disease till 8 am today.The State Health Society had on Tuesday ordered delegation of more doctors in Muzaffarpur from Darbhanga, Supaul, Madhubani, Samastipur and Sitamarhi districts.Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday visited the SKMCH to take stock of the encephalitis situation. Earlier, Kumar had announced an ex gratia compensation of Rs 4 lakh each to the families of the children who died due to the AES.He had also given directions to the health department, district administration and doctors to take necessary measures for containment of the disease.Earlier Union Health Minister had visited the state to take stock of the situation and review measures taken in the wake of .
UN health agency to remove controversial opioid guidelines
The World Health Organization notified U.S. lawmakers Wednesday that it will discontinue two publications on prescribing opioid painkillers in response to allegations that the pharmaceutical industry influenced the reports. The pledge to remove the guidelines comes a month after U.S. Reps. Katherine Clark and Hal Rogers accused the WHO of being influenced by Purdue Pharma, the American manufacturer of the potent painkiller OxyContin. The lawmakers' report claimed the guidelines, crafted in part by organizations with financial ties to the company, downplay the risk of opioids despite the American epidemic that has killed more than 390,000 since 1999. WHO's reports are viewed around the world as best practices in public health policy, and the opioid prescribing documents have been in circulation for years. "That is a very dangerous situation," Clark said. "We do not want to see the opioid crisis in this country exported around the globe." The WHO, the health arm of the United Nations, ..
Odisha govt formulating new Health Policy and Vison 2025
With the Odisha government in the process of formulating a State Health Policy and Vision for 2025, chief district medical officers have been asked to collect suggestions from the people, a senior minister has said. Feedback and suggestions are required from the people, especially from the grassroot level, to provide quality health service to all, state Health and Family Welfare minister Naba Das said. The new health policy will also ensure free healthcare services to each in the state. No one will be deprived of free treatment as Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has stressed for 'Health Care For All', Das said, while addressing a conference of chief district medical officers here on Wednesday. Das asked the CDMOs to prepare a 100-days action plan for ensuring quality health service to all. "The focus has shifted from fragmented service delivery approach to comprehensive and determined method for quality health care," the minister said. Efforts are on to make Odisha a ...
Death toll in Muzaffarpur touches 117
The death toll due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) touched 117 on Thursday morning in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district.As per data, a total of 98 deaths were reported at government-run Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital while 19 children died at Kejriwal hospital in the district due to the vector-borne disease till 8 am today.The State Health Society had on Tuesday ordered delegation of more doctors in Muzaffarpur from Darbhanga, Supaul, Madhubani, Samastipur and Sitamarhi districts.Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday visited the SKMCH to take stock of the encephalitis situation. Earlier, Kumar had announced an ex gratia compensation of Rs 4 lakh each to the families of the children who died due to the AES.He had also given directions to the health department, district administration and doctors to take necessary measures for containment of the disease.Earlier Union Health Minister had visited the state to take stock of the situation and review measures taken in the wake of .
Action against docs after infant dies due to 'negligence' in Bareilly
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Wednesday ordered the suspension of a doctor and departmental proceedings against another after reports of negligence in attending to an infant at a government hospital in Bareilly surfaced, officials said here. The Chief Medical Superintendent (CMS) of the men's wing at the government hospital, Dr Kamlendra Swaroop Gupta, was suspended after the death of the four-day-old girl, an official release stated. Departmental proceedings have also been ordered against Dr Alka Sharma, CMS, women's wing. "A critically-ill child was brought to the men's wing of the hospital, where paediatricians were available. Instead of stablising the child, her family was sent to the women's wing, from where the child was sent back," officials said. According to reports, the four-day-old baby girl died after being shuttled from one wing of the hospital to another. The girl born at a private hospital on June 15 had a difficulty in breathing after which her parents ..
Vitamin D may not reduce heart risk
While there are several pieces of research that suggested a link between low levels of vitamin D in the blood and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, researchers have now discovered that consuming vitamin D supplements won't decrease the risk.The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Cardiology, found that vitamin D supplements did not decrease the incidence of heart attacks, strokes or other major adverse cardiovascular events."We thought it would show some benefit. It didn't show even a small benefit. This was surprising," said one of the researchers, Mahmoud Barbarawi.His finding was consistent for both men and women and for patients of different ages.Many earlier studies have found an association of low levels of vitamin D in the blood and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, suggesting that vitamin D supplements might reduce that risk.Barbarawi led a team of researchers and reviewed data from 21 clinical trials, including more than ..
Bihar: People of Harivanshpur village vacate home due to fear of AES
People of Harivanshpur village of Vaishali district have left their homes due to fear of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES). Most families have shifted their children to other villages after the outbreak of the disease."My two sons died due to Acute Encephalitis in the matter of an hour. The elder one was 7 years old while the younger one was two years old. There were no awareness campaigns by the administration regarding the disease," father of the deceased children told ANI.The father also criticised Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, saying "The Chief Minister has done nothing to spread awareness regarding the disease. There are no arrangements in the hospital for children suffering from the disease."Another man said, "My seven-year-old daughter died. There was no arrangement from the administration regarding the disease."Another person said, "I have shifted my two children to another village as it is dangerous here. Other families have also shifted their children."Meanwhile, the ...
