Three top medical institutes to mentor 6 AIIMS clones

NEW DELHI: India's best medical institutes will mentor the six new AIIMS-like institutions that are under construction.
Union health ministry has put three of the best known existing medical institutes — AIIMS Delhi, JIPMER Puducherry and PGI Chandigarh — in charge of helping the six new institutes find their feet.
"It will be like a hand-holding exercise to show them the way," a ministry official said.
AIIMS Delhi, will mentor the two new institutions at Patna and Bhubaneswar, PGI will hand hold the ones in Rishikesh and Jodhpur, while JIPMER will provide able guidance to AIIMS prototypes in Bhopal and Raipur.
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MCI to keep tab on doctors' count

NEW DELHI: India's "invisible doctors" are giving the Medical Council of India (MCI) a major headache.


According to MCI's Indian Medical Register that was last updated in April 2011, the nation supposedly boasts of 840,678 registered medical practitioners.

The data includes names of doctors who were registered way back in 1933. Chances of these doctors being alive is dim, admits MCI.

Till date, neither the Union health ministry nor MCI has strictly pushed for re-registration of doctors, thanks to which, India isn't sure about how many doctors it actually has.

MCI will ask the ministry to make it mandatory for all doctors to re-register with the country's 24 state medical boards, and MCI every five years.Complete Article

Top U.K. award for Indian doctors

Two teams of medical professionals from India were awarded top honours at the British Medical Journal Group Awards distributed on Wednesday.

The award for ‘Medical Team in a Crisis Zone' went to ‘Doctors for You' for their flood relief work in Bihar in 2008; and the award for ‘Innovation in Health Care' went to Professor Subhashchandra Daga and his team at the Maharashtra Institute of Medical Education and Research Medical College for their work in neo-natal health.

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Deadly Delays

Delay in decision to seek care, Delay in reaching care, Delay in receiving care,these three phases of delay rarely operate in isolation, and delay leading to maternal death is often multifactorial. Indeed the factors are likely to be interactive and multiplicative. Thus barriers and poor care encountered at Phase 2 and 3 feed back into subsequent decision-making at Phase 1. Interventions to reduce maternal mortality must address each of the Three Delays in order to have the greatest effect.
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OUR NUTRITION

Nutrition  is a very confusing topic for most people these days. If you pick up a woman’s magazine or watch any morning television programme you are likely to find that an article or presentation about nutrition is trying to convince you that a particular fad diet, or a particular group of nutrients, will be the one secret that positively changes your life forever. Yet, the more you read magazine articles or watch television shows, the more you are likely to be in the dark as to which advice to follow, because many of them are contradictory;
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OUR NUTRITION

 Nutrition   is a very confusing topic for most people these days. If you pick up a woman’s magazine or watch any morning television programme you are likely to find that an article or presentation about nutrition is trying to convince you that a particular fad diet, or a particular group of nutrients, will be the one secret that positively changes your life forever. Yet, the more you read magazine articles or watch television shows, the more you are likely to be in the dark as to which advice to follow, because many of them are contradictory. 
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WHO Group Says Cell Phones 'Possibly' Carcinogenic

Electromagnetic radiation generated by cell phones is "possibly carcinogenic" to humans, the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer concludes.

According to a WHO press release, an international working group of 31 scientists analyzed hundreds of studies and found — on the basis of "limited" evidence — a positive association between wireless telephone use and glioma. The group cited one study that showed a 40% increased risk for glioma among the heaviest users (people who reported using their cell phones 30 minutes daily over 10 years). However, chance, bias, or confounding could not yet be ruled out, so electromagnetic radiation was given the "2B" classification as being possibly carcinogenic.
IARC director Christopher Wild said that further research needs to be done on heavy, long-term use of cell phones. Until those results are published, he added, "it is important to take pragmatic measures to reduce exposure such as hands-free devices or texting."

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