No airborne spread of COVID-19: WHO

With an objective to reduce the gap in HIV diagnoses, WHO recommends strategically implementing a range of differentiated HIV testing approaches, including facility-based testing, community-based testing, HIV self-testing (HIVST), partner services (provider-assisted referral/index testing) and, for key populations, social network-based HIV testing.

Amajor new collaborative effort, the Global Breast Cancer Initiative, is being introduced by WHO, with the objective of reducing global breast cancer mortality by 2.5% per year until 2040, thereby averting an estimated 2.5 million deaths.

Anew study by a team of Indian medical researchers on accessing the peripheral nervous system (PNS) by topically applied nanoparticles clearly suggests that nanoparticles with neurotropic targeting ligands can be utilised for quickly delivering nanoparticles to neuronal cell bodies via axonal transport mechanisms.

WHO has released a suite of tools to help countries improve diagnosis and treatment of cancer among children coinciding with International Childhood Cancer Day.

Dr Anitha Madhavan has made a retrospective analysis of the shigella serotypes, common age groups affected and its antibiotic resistance pattern in south Kerala.

An outbreak of shigella infection has created panic in Kerala after an 11-year-old died in Kozhikode district. According to the authorities, six out of 56 suspected cases in the area have been confirmed as shigella infections.

Noncommunicable diseases now make up 7 of the world’s top 10 causes of death, according to WHO’s 2019 Global Health Estimates. This is an increase from 4 of the 10 leading causes in 2000. The new data cover the period from 2000 to 2019 inclusive.

World Health Organization allows the use of food additives to improve these properties, but recent research shows that additives that are mixed with food to make them tastier and crispier, or just to enhance their shelf-life, can take away your health.

A first-of-its-kind clinical study from India has found the specific phenotypic expression and clinical outcome of non-sarcomeric protein—PRKAG2-linked HCM in South Asia.

“Ribbons of blue, reminds me of you, ribbons of red, are the way that my heart bled..”, when Boney-M first sang these lines in 1979, there was no special meaning attached to them, other than the obvious references to true love, friendship and solidarity.

Marinomed Biotech AG, a Vienna-based biopharmaceutical company, is developing a treatment for autoimmune gastritis together with the Medical University of Vienna.

Sepsis is a serious medical condition that arises when the body’s own response to infection can lead to tissue damage, organ failure and death, particularly if it is not identified early on and treated promptly.

Cataract is the second leading cause of preventable blindness on the globe. Among the global population (2015) with moderate or severe vision impairment and blind, cataract accounted for 52·6 million and 12·6 million, respectively.

A significant proportion of individuals with cleft lip — varying between 7% and 26% or even higher — present with the condition of velopharyngeal dysfunction (VPD), even after a surgical repair of the palate.

We have done open reduction, adductor and psoas tenotomy, femoral varus de-rotation osteotomy after shortening of femur along with capsuloraphy.

Datar Cancer Genetics launched a cancer screening profile in the form of ‘Easycheck360’, a blood test for the detection of 16 types of cancers.

The most common hip related complaints with which a child can presentto orthopaedic outpatient departmentare.

A massive testing campaign conducted across the general population in the European nation of Iceland showed a significant number of people without outward symptoms tested positive for the novel coronavirus infection.

The new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 may be present in conjunctival secretions of infected patients, according to a report from China.

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ICMR, meanwhile, issued a protocol for the restricted use of the lopinavir/ritonavir combo in patients with COVID-19 infection.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is stable for several hours to days in aerosols and on surfaces, according to a new study from National Institutes of Health (NIH), CDC, UCLA and Princeton University scientists in The New England Journal of Medicine.

The WHO South-East Asia office said that the novel coronavirus doesn’t spread airborne. However, there has been a reported possibility of aerosol transmission in a relatively closed environment with prolonged exposure.

Even though respiratory failure is the main cause of mortality among hospitalised COVID-19 patients, cardiac injury resulting from the infection is also linked to their mortality, according to a study conducted by researchers at Wuhan, China.

As a measure to prevent the unregulated sale and possible misuse of hydroxychloroquine in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Union health ministry has brought the anti-malarial drug under Schedule H1.

There is currently no scientific evidence establishing a link between ibuprofen and worsening of COVID-19, the European Medicine Agency (EMA) said in a statement.

The US FDA has approved individual exploratory treatment for COVID-19 infections in which a patient may be eligible to receive convalescent plasma under single-patient emergency Investigational New Drug Applications.

Genentech announced the US FDA has approved clinical trial in collaboration with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to evaluate the safety and efficacy of intravenous tocilizumab (Actemra) plus standard of care in hospitalised adult patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia.

Gilead Sciences Inc said it was temporarily putting new emergency access to its experimental coronavirus drug remdesivir on hold due to overwhelming demand.

Entos Pharmaceuticals has announced the development of a Fusogenix DNA vaccine to prevent COVID-19 infections.

CanSino Bio and its collaborators at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences’ Institute of Biotechnology won a quick Chinese regulatory approval to start human testing of their recombinant coronavirus vaccine, the company said.

Recent advancement in diagnostic infrastructure helped discover that genetic factors play an important role in the development of the various diseases.

In today’s time, coronavirus is spreading at an epidemic rate, and many questions are there related to cancer patients who are on chemotherapy or visiting hospitals on a regular basis for treatment.

A healthy vaginal flora protects the body against urogenital infections. The vaginal flora composed of many different kinds of bacteria, the predominant being lactobacilli.

A cancer that affects the production and function of blood cells. Most of these cancers start in bone marrow, where blood is produced.

More than eleven lakh new patients get afflicted with cancer each year in India.

It is an enlightening paper that focuses on developments that have been breaking new ground over the last 5 years when it comes to treating myeloma, which is a blood cancer arising from plasma cells.

The author is Professor, Department of Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi.

One would think that re-establishing normal blood flow by implanting a stent at the site of coronary stenosis to relieve the obstruction would result in a positive clinical outcome.

When someone is diagnosed with cancer, it throws innumerable challenges to the patient and to the family.

GLOBOCON 2018 survey states that among Indian women, breast cancer is the commonest cancer overall and 1,62,468 new cases and 87,090 deaths were reported for female breast cancer in India.

There is broad encumbrance of tobacco usage with respect to its accessibility in various forms and magnitude in India.

The prevalence of pseudoexfoliation (PXF) syndrome, a common cause of glaucoma-related blindness, is on the rise in India. If the findings of a recent study by Indian researchers are anything to go by, not only is the rate of occurrence of PXF very high in certain parts of the country, it is also emerging as […]

Influenza vaccination in patients with high blood pressure is associated with an 18% reduced risk of death during flu season, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2019 together with the World Congress of Cardiology. “Given these results, it is my belief that all patients with high blood pressure should have an annual flu vaccination,” […]

Malaria infection is linked with a 30% increased risk of heart failure, according to a small study presented at ESC Congress 2019 together with the World Congress of Cardiology. The mosquito-borne infection affects more than 219 million people worldwide each year, according to 2018 statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO). “We have seen an […]

Woman and child health segment is one of the markets most targeted by nutritional product companies in India. While the products range from vitamin supplements to nutraceuticals and functional health foods, the majority of these products are sold through over-the-counter or consumer health route. Hence, the marketing strategy is largely media-driven and consumers are often […]

Peritoneal surface malignancies are considered to be an enigma and one of the most difficult to treat cancers. They are a group of advanced stage cancers that develop on the lining of the abdomen, called the peritoneum.

Immucare Diagnostics, a research-oriented diagnostics laboratory dedicated to supporting the medical fraternity and patients suffering from all types of autoimmune diseases, has been launched in Kerala.

In India, two outbreaks in human were reported from Siliguri (2001) and Nadia (2007), West Bengal. Fruit bats of Pteropus genus are the natural reservoir of NiV.

The Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS) has subsequently worked on this document and published these guidelines with a view that IPS will hold all members to its ethical standard

Asthma is a complex inflammatory disorder of the airways characterized by airway hyper-responsiveness (AHR) and variable airflow obstruction.

The incidence of dry eye disease is reaching alarming proportions in India, especially among urban folks, according to a recently published paper by Indian clinicians.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an organism that causes multi-systemic involvement. Although pulmonary tuberculosis is the major manifestation of the disease, multifocal and extra pulmonary tuberculosis has gained medical attention since the emergence of HIV.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer with an estimated global incidence of 1.8 million. In India, the incidence and prevalence of the disease is 27,605 and 53,700 respectively with a mortality of 19,548 (https://www.uicc.org/new-global-cancer-data-globocan-2018).

The number of cancer-related deaths in India more than doubled between the years 1990 and 2016, according to a paper titled “The Burden of Cancers and Their Variations Across the States of India

Nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) in the United States was first described by Drs.
Joseph Crowe and Randall Yetman of the Cleveland Clinic (CCF) in 2004

Most doctors know that every patient responds differently to treatment

X-rays revolutionized orthopedic management in fundamental ways, especially in the diagnosis of conditions and their management.

Metropolis, as a company, has always believed in constantly focusing on innovative models that can benefit both the patients as well as the organisation. That has made us different in an industry that has been stodgy and traditional.

India’s leading diagnostic chain Metropolis Healthcare Ltd has launched a unique subsidiary— Metropolis HistoXpert Digital Services (P) Ltd, to offer advanced tissue investigation services in India.

One of the major challenges in the treatment of neuropathological conditions is getting the drug molecule to cross the blood-brain barrier. The second challenge is getting the drug to work only on the tissue/cells that are affected.

The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care has released an updated breast cancer screening guideline placing emphasis on shared decision-making between women and their health care providers.

The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC), 8th Edition marks a major change in the Tumour Nodal Metastasis (TNM) staging of head_and_neck cancers. It introduces many new concepts to stage and prognosticate patients better, with distinct therapeutic implications.

Thirty nine-year-old Juhi was cautiously delighted when she learned she was pregnant again. She had previously miscarried a foetus affected with Down Syndrome. During her current pregnancy,

THE DISCOVERY of antibiotics was a significant milestone in healthcare that resulted in a reduction in morbidity and mortality caused by bacterial infections. Ironically, better access to antibiotics has resulted in its overuse and misuse, leading to development of resistance to these antibiotics.

Astudy led by the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles claims that Parkinson’s disease can be diagnosed non-invasively by analysing certain biological markers found in tears.

British researchers have developed a blood test that can predict autism with 92 per cent accuracy, according to findings published in the journal Molecular Autism. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterised by impairment in cognition, behaviour, and social interaction.

In India, an increased prevalence of genetic disorders parallels with the increased population, birth rate and consanguineous marriage preferred by several communities. It is estimated that about 21,400 are born each year with Down syndrome.

Sepsis is among the most common causes of death in hospitals the world over. Diagnosis of this condition, which arises from the host’s response to an infection,