Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI), a growing problem worldwide that leads to thousands of fatalities every year can be treated successfully by Fecal Microbial Transplantation (FMT). FMT involves collecting fecal matter from a donor, purifying and mixing with saline solution before placing it in the patient via colonoscopy. As opposed to standard antibiotic therapies which disrupt […]
Indiana University School of Medicine researchers, Dr. Vreeman and Dr. Carroll, explored some commonly held medical beliefs or rather medical myths. The research, entitled “Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe” was published in the British Medical Journal. The researchers extensively searched medical literature and found no evidence to support these myths, but many doctors believed them. […]
Stringent quality and price monitoring is to be lined up by the government for stents, catheters, MRI machines and other such medical devices. Separate regulator and law to keep a check on diagnostic equipment, implants as well as hospital equipment available in the country has been recommended by an inter-ministerial task force on medical devices. […]
Using alternating doses of antibiotics – ‘sequential treatments’, might be an effective treatment against bacterial infection. Researchers from the University of Exeter have shown that the risk of bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics can be reduced using this technique and thus, drugs will remain effective for a longer term. Treatments with two antibiotics, at certain […]
A large dose of a blood thinning drug called heparin is administered during open-heart surgery to prevent clot formation. However, an overdose of heparin causes complications from excessive bleeding. A common countermeasure for this is the compound protamine sulfate, which binds to heparin to reverse its effects. The problem with protamine, a natural compound that […]
“In nothing do men more nearly approach the Gods than in giving health to men” Cicero in his quote mentions ‘nearly’ and makes it clear that doctors too are mortal beings, who simply strive their best to save lives. However, many see this gift as an absolute and turn to them with pitchforks […]
Dr.Marthanda Pillai, the national president of the Indian Medical Association, shot an array of criticisms at the draft new health policy (dNHP). Dr. Pillai, a leading neurosurgeon who received the Padma Shri award for his work in neurosurgery and service to the poor in performing surgeries free of cost, feels that the dNHP is not […]
Doctors resorted to protest against the attack of duty doctors in Mumbai. Private hospitals and OPD clinics in Panvel Taluka, Mumbai, will be shut down today to protest the attack on two doctors in Panvel by the relatives of a patient on Sunday. According to the TOI report, a group of people barged into Life […]
Jharkhand State Health Services Association (JSHSA), a body of state employed doctors, has announced a phase-wise protest from this week to press for reinstatement and gradation of doctors. This was a result of a mass transfer order of doctors by the health department last week after 162 doctors were reshuffled. Sixty senior doctors, including civil […]
Doctors are concerned about the corruption that seeps into elections conducted by the Medical Council of India (MCI) due to the postal ballot system. Maharashtra Medical Council’s election is under process and many doctors from the state are opposing the present system. A senior doctor said to DNA on the condition of anonymity, “This election […]