Editorial |
Dr KK Aggarwal President CMAAO, HCFI
31st March 2021
Multispeciality
With input from Dr Monica Vasudev
1520: Data from healthcare workers in the United States and Israel have confirmed the effectiveness of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines against COVID-19. The data are published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Pooled data from employees from the University of California, San Diego and the University of California Los Angeles health systems suggest that during a system of aggressive testing, carried out during a spike in COVID-19 cases in the general population, there was a dramatic decline in the rate of new infections among the staff, beginning the second week after the first dose of the vaccine was given...Read more »
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Dr KK Aggarwal, President CMAAO, HCFI and Past National President IMA
31st March 2021
Multispeciality
CMAAO: In susceptible high-risk (pro-inflammatory and/or pro-coagulative) individuals, reactogenic vaccines can trigger transient thrombo-inflammation lasting first few (up to four) days.
COVID Vaccine: non-replicative, non-repetitive dose, spike gene mRNA/spike gene DNA to mRNA/whole killed virus, reactogenic vaccine
Cases: 1M April 2, 2M April 15, 3M April 27, 4M May 8, 5M May 20, 6M May 30, 7M June 7, 8M June 15, 9M June 22, 10M June 29th, 11M July 4, 12M July 8, 13M July 13, 14M July 17, 15M July 23, 16M July 25, 17M July 29, 18M August 1, 19M August 6, 20M August 10, 21M August 16, 22M August 19, 23M August 21,...Read more » |
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31st March 2021
Gastroenterology
Hepatology
Multispeciality
Older patients with hepatotoxicity have been scarcely studied in idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (DILI) cohorts. We sought the distinctive characteristics of DILI in older patients across age groups. A total of 882 DILI patients included in the Spanish DILI Registry (33% = 65 years) were categorized according to age:...
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31st March 2021
Allergy & Immunology
Multispeciality
The current study assessed the effectiveness of diphenhydramine against cough due to respiratory infection or irritation in patients without comorbidities. The researchers searched Medline (1966-2005), Embase (1980-2005), Cochrane and references from reclaimed articles and included studies/clinical trials. Among the total reviewed studies,...
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News From All Specialities |
31st March 2021
Business and Medicine
Public Health
A new report from UNAIDS, the agency working towards ending HIV and AIDS, has revealed that an investment of $29 billion a year to HIV response in low- and middle-income countries by the year 2025 will help us get back on track to eliminate the virus as a public health threat by 2030.
The agency adopted the new Global AIDS Strategy 2021–2026...
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31st March 2021
Business and Medicine
Pathology & Lab Medicine
The Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines have been shown to decrease the risk of COVID-19 infection by 80% two weeks or more following the first dose in data obtained from a real-world U.S. study.
The study included around 4,000 U.S. healthcare personnel and first responders...
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31st March 2021
Pathology & Lab Medicine
Emergency Medicine
International health experts have stated that the odds that COVID-19 emerged in Wuhan from imported frozen food are very low, thus questioning one of the key theories China has adopted for the cause of the first COVID-19 outbreak in late 2019.
China has challenged the initial assumption that the virus originated in Wuhan...
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31st March 2021
Pathology & Lab Medicine
Pharmacists
Researchers with Imperial College London (ICL)'s COVID-19 Response Team attempted at modeling what would happen with vaccine hesitancy and noted that despite the availability of highly effective vaccines against the virus, at the current levels of vaccine hesitancy in the United States, the country would need to continue with interventions...
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31st March 2021
Pathology & Lab Medicine Pharmacists
According to new research, adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) do not have an inherently increased risk for COVID-19 mortality or severe infection. However, physiological stage was a key risk factor.
Investigators noted that among patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19, those across the spectrum...
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Medicolegal Corner |
31st March 2021
The onus to prove negligence is on the complainant, not the doctor. The complainant has to make an allegation which is supported by evidence. Mere allegation has no value. The complainant is required to produce expert opinion that the first reading was wrong and the second reading was right...
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eMedi Humor |
31st March 2021
An American walks into an Irish pub and says, "I’ll give anyone $100 if they can drink 10 Guinness in 10 minutes."
Most people just ignore the absurd bet and go back to their conversations. One guy even leaves the bar.
A little while later that guy comes back and asks the American, "Is that bet still on?"
"Sure," he says...
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eMedi Quiz |
31st March 2021
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Lifestyle Updates |
31st March 2021
• The definition of a standard drink differs in countries: US = 14-15 gm alcohol equivalent to 12 oz beer, 5 oz wine and 1.5 oz 80 proof liquor; UK 8 gm alcohol, Japan 19.75 gm alcohol and India 10 gm alcohol.
• A standard drink usually means a US drink...
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31st March 2021
• More experiences of telepathy.
• More experiences of reverse telepathy.
• More spontaneous fulfilment of desires...
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31st March 2021
Once there was a hardworking man who delivered bread as a living to support his family. He spent all his evenings after work attending classes, in a hope to improve himself and one day, find a better paying job. He seldom ate a meal together with his family, except on Sundays...
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Survey |
Question 1 : Which of these courses would you pay for - You can select multiple options
How to modernize clinic
Growing your digitize you clinic and practice...
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Question 1 : How confident are you that you could recognize and respond to a potential coronavirus case?
Very confident
Moderately confident...
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Medbytes |
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From Other Newsletter |
Recovery Digest |
In a study aimed to estimate the effect of activities on ORS and zinc use, a scale-up program was executed from 2012-2016 by The Clinton Health Access Initiative to upsurge the use of oral rehydration salts (ORS) and zinc to treat diarrhea in children under 5 in three states: Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh....
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Nephrology |
Novel coronavirus disease is a condition newly discovered in the end of 2019 and started in the Wuhan city of China. It is caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus and its main clinical manifestations include acute respiratory illness with pneumonia...
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Pediatrics |
Newborn skin is dry and undergoes significant changes in sebum. These changes are known to cause problems such as diaper dermatitis, seborrheic eczema and prickly heat in more than 50% of newborns. Routine bathing and moisturizer use are some of the preventive measures for such conditions in newborns...
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Surgery |
Biofilm has often been cited as a key pathological factor in non-healing wounds. It therefore seems crucial to manage the biofilm in order to expedite wound healing and achieve the desired outcome.
A study by Scully and colleagues compared the clinical and in vitro performance of a next-generation antibiofilm silver dressing (NGAD) enriched with an antimicrobial dressing technology...
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