Dr. Roy Varghese MS, DNB, Ph.D, FSVS (USA), Vascular Surgeon, Jubilee Mission Medical College, Trichur, Kerala answers varicose vein related queries. This is Part 1 of 3. This section addresses the Causes and Nature of varicose veins. Also see Part 2 (use of…
As per an article in Deccan Chronicle, the Kerala State Government plans to have an Standard Operating Procedure for prescription of antibiotics. This is to ensure that narrow-spectrum antibiotics are tried before broad-spectrum ones, based on grading of patients on…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a comprehensive report on Superbugs, highlighting the problem of AntiMicrobial Resistance (AMR). Significant points: 1. No major types of antibiotics discovered in the last 30 years 2. This report covers data from 114…
"Missing Microbes – How Antibiotics can do Harm" – by Dr. Martin J. Blaser – published March 2014 Dr Blaser is a professor of medicine and infectious diseases at New York University. Some points from the book - 1. Increasing…
In Sept 2013, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the United States issued what was seen as the first time hard-data was made available on the problem of antibiotic resistance. The report estimates that 2 million Americans…
Antibiotic introduced in year First resistant bacterial strain found in Penicillin introduced in 1940 Penicillin-resistant staph - 1940 Tetracycline introduced in 1950 Tetracycline-resistant shigella 1959 Erythromycin introduced in 1953 Erythromycin-resistant strep - 1968 Methicillin introduced in 1960 Methicillin-resistant staph…
A recent article highlights for example the danger of artemisinin-resistant bacteria emerging in Cambodia. Currently, these bacteria have been restricted to the East of the Moei river which separates Burma and Thailand. But once these cross over to India and…
Drug resistance, especially to antibiotics, is becoming a serious problem for public health policy makers the world over, both in developed as well as developing countries. Common causes of increasing antibiotic resistance are: 1. Self-medication by patients for a variety…
Dynamic Techno Medicals was the Diamond Sponsor of the Annual Conference on Trauma (Traumacon 2014) . About 350 doctors attended the event. The Organizing Secretary was Dr. Rajesh Simon of Lakeshore Hospital. TRAUMACON 2014 Annual Conference on Trauma 2014 Starts:…
In August 2012 at the Clinical Infectious Diseases Society conference in Chennai, a road-map was laid out to tackle the problem of increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. This is popularly known as the Chennai Declaration. It envisages that within…