| ban selling non OTC medicines without Q.P.`s prescription |
Under Category : Medical Education
Posted By : NARAHARI KANOAKATLA
Posted On : 20 Jan 2010
Blog : in our country anything is possible, medical shop people are selling any medicine right from halls {chewable} to the tune of higher antibiotics ,hormone preperations,and what not,without proper prescriptions.this is really causing lot of harm rather than good to the patients.This sort of malpractice should be seriously thought of and drug controller should have vigilence over it.
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| No place for Kids to play |
Under Category : Human Values
Posted By : Jasbir S Chugh
Posted On : 08 Jan 2010
Blog : Most of the big towns in our country are depriving children of adequate place to play and breathe in fresh air. Luckily our rural kids still enjoy this luxury.
Rapid urbanization, industrial growth, increasing population and utilization of every inch of land for residential and commercial purposes is creating a scarcity of play grounds for them. The luxury of lot of open space for the kids to play has become a distant dream now. There are lots of public parks for adults to take a stroll but no play grounds for little ones. The children remain glued to TV, computers and video games. Lack of exercise is making them obese and exposing them to risk of heart disease, diabetes and hypertension in future.
Residential colonies must have provision for separate play grounds for children. It should be made mandatory for builders and colonizers to spare a piece of land for this purpose while planning and developing new colonies. At least a quarter of every public park should be reserved fo...
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| Health care for the poor-nedd to revamp |
Under Category : Human Values
Posted By : Jasbir S Chugh
Posted On : 25 Aug 2009
Blog :
According to various reports, about 40 percent of Indian population fails to make two square meals a day. These people belong to economically weaker sections and in case of an illness, can hardly ever get quality medical care. The higher rates of morbidity and mortality are due to their tendency to seek medical aid from quacks. Our Government spends millions on setting up civil hospitals, dispensaries and rural health services. But are the poor really able to drive the benefit they deserve_? Unfortunately the answer is no. Most of the funds allotted for health care system hardly reach their destination. Corruption, callousness and lackadaisical attitude of the authorities concerned takes its toll and poor continue to grope in the dark and remaining deprived of proper medical care. Population explosion too is responsible for this dilemma.
Our civil hospitals and dispensaries remain starved of medicines, infrastructure, equipment and staff. Corrupt practices do play a role here als...
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| Proper Education of parents regarding HRAD |
Under Category : Medical practice
Posted By : Kumudhini Suresh
Posted On : 04 Aug 2009
Blog : We encounter lot of children with HRAD. Generally they are advised not to give cold stuff, without actually assessing what is causing the Hyperactive airway. This is very wrong, the parents literally listen to the doctors and deprive the kids of healthy foods like banana, watermelon etc.
Other thing is sometimes the kids are even prescribed with a bronchodilator and told to administer whenever the child has cold and cough. Some parents take it as a life long management and keep on giving bronchodilators without consulting the doctor and when it is not required, as they cannot assess the situation.
Hence, as paediatricians, knowing the merits and demerits of the bronchodilators and steroids we should give proper councelling to the parents.
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| MP3 related behaviour and hearing defects |
Under Category : General Pediatrics
Posted By : Jasbir S Chugh
Posted On : 23 Jun 2009
Blog : Be it trains,coaches,work place or even class rooms, one can see many youngsters listening to MP3 player music with ear buds or headphones stuck to their ears.
The huge increase in the popularity of portable MP3 players has increased young people`s exposure to high sound levels dramatically. When using MP3 players, adolescents are very likely to engage in risky listening behaviors and are unlikely to seek protection. Frequent MP3 player use is an indicator of other risky listening behaviors, such as listening at high volumes and failing to use noise-limiters.
Various studies reported that increasing numbers of adolescents and young adults now experience symptoms indicative of poor hearing, such as distortion, tinnitus, hyperaccusis, or threshold shifts.Currently, use of MP3 players may be the most important risk factor for music-induced hearing loss in young people.
The rapid development of digital technology has led to the production of new kinds of portable music players who...
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