Morning Medtalks with Dr KK Aggarwal

New Delhi, 15 March,2018 : Morning Health Talk

1. 209th WMA Council Session,26 – 28 April 2018, Riga, Latvia
2. WMA General Assembly,3 – 6 October 2018, Reykjavik, Iceland
3. The WMA Medical Ethics Conference, co-organized by the Icelandic Medical Association, will be held from2 – 4 October 2018 in Reykjavik. The participants of the WMA General Assembly will join this conference on 4 October, the day of the scientific session
4. Five global medical organisations, including the WMA, sent a joint letter to President Erdoğan of Turkey calling for the immediate release of the leaders of the Turkish Medical Association (TMA). Eleven Council members of the TMA were taken into custody on30 Januaryas a result of a statement issued by the Association declaring that war was a public health concern.
5. The WMA has again appealed to the Iranian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release an Iranian-born Swedish resident specialist in emergency medicine, Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, who has been sentenced to death on a charge of “corruption on earth”.
6. 6th Februarymarked the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation.
7. Since 2004, the WHO has recommended low-osmolarity glucose-based oral rehydration solutions.
8. Diluted (half-strength) apple juice may be as effective as standard oral rehydration solutions in children with mild acute gastroenteritis.
9. Culture First: #CultureFirst: Gram stain findings must be correlated with culture. If the Gram stain is positive but cultures are negative, possibilities include  presence of anaerobes, false-negative results, prior antibiotic therapy, fastidious organism that cannot grow on routine media.
10. Patients who were taking salbutamol are 34 percent less likely to develop Parkinson’s, while those who take propranolol are twice as likely to develop the condition. [MedicalNewsToday]
11. Medtronic has finally received FDA clearance for Guardian Connect, its smartphone-connected standalone CGM for patients who use multiple daily injections (MDI) for their insulin.
12. Pune: Among the pre-requisites necessary to ensure the smooth functioning of hospitals are qualified nurses registered with the nursing council. About 150 small- and medium-sized hospitals in the city are likely to face closure afterMarch 31, as nurses working at these institutes have not registered with the council. [TOI]
13. CHENNAI: Medical students and government doctors will go on a protest fromMarch 21if the Directorate General of Health Services, which conducts online counselling for students under the all-India quota, does not allot 27% of the seats to OBC candidates during 2018 PG admissions scheduled to begin on Wednesday. [TOI]
14. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has termed the ‘Ayushman Bharat’, the government’s mega healthcare initiative, as a bold and ambitious move that has the potential improve health and move people out of poverty.
15. Health Ministry Releases Draft New Drug & Clinical Trial Rule 2018
16. In all trials, a freely given, informed, written consent is required to be obtained from each study subject. The Investigator must provide information about the study verbally as well as using a patient information sheet, in a language that is non-technical and understandable by the study subject.
17. An audio-video recording of the informed consent process in case of vulnerable subjects, CT of New Chemical Entity or New Molecular Entity including procedure of providing information to the subject and his understanding on such consent, shall be maintained by the investigator for record.
18. No bioavailability or bioequivalence study of any new drug or investigational new drug shall be conducted in human subjects by any person or institution or organization except in accordance with the permission granted by the CLA and EC.
19. Prices of 851 essential drug formulations were cut, mostly in the 5-40 per cent range, in the past 2 years
20. Reducing dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) to 6 months in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stent placement was associated with an increased risk for myocardial infarction, in the SMART-DATE trial.
21. Tuesday 14 March, was  National No Smoking Day – a day to encourage people to bloody well quit smoking