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Morning Health Talk :
New Delhi, September 08, 2018 :
Decriminalization of Section 377 IPC provides access of health care facility to LGBT (Dr KK Aggarwal & Ira Gupta). Vide judgment dated 06.09.2018, the Hon’ble 5 Judges Bench of the Supreme Court of India has held that Section 377 IPC, so far as it penalizes any consensual sexual relationship between two adults, be it homosexuals (man and a man), heterosexuals (man and a woman) or lesbians (woman and a woman), cannot be regarded as un-constitutional.
However, if anyone, both a man and a woman, engages in any kind of sexual activity with an animal, the said aspect of Section 377 is un-constitutional and it shall remain a penal offence under Section 377 IPC. Any act of the description covered under Section 377 IPC done between two individuals without the consent of any one of them would invite penal liability under Section 377 IPC… https://www.emedinexus.
Hypertensive patients do not reduce their salt intake as recommended and instead rely only antihypertensive drugs to control their high BP and to reduce their risk of heart attack, stroke and heart failure. In an observational study, patients were categorized into three groups (one, two, three or more) based on the number of antihypertensive drugs prescribed. BP levels and patients maintaining the target BP of less than 140/90mmHg improved during the seven-year study across all groups, but an increase in individual salt intake was also observed, especially in patients who were taking multiple antihypertensive drugs. In these patients, salt intake was higher than those who were prescribed only one antihypertensive drug.
According to lead author Dr Kazuto Ohno, Enshu Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan, who presented these findings at the recently concluded European Society of Cardiology Congress 2018 at Munich in Germany, lack of adherence to recommended lifestyle changes is leading to increased salt intake for hypertensive patients due to which more drugs are needed with potentially more side effects from those medications.
Cigarette butts have become world’s most discarded waste, says WHO-FCTC. About 4.5 trillion are thrown away every year, representing 1.69 billion pounds of toxic trash annually. The World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC) said various studies indicated that this was compounded and accelerated as bans on indoor smoking took effect in many of the world’s cities and countries over the past two decades. Apart from deforestation to soil degradation and pollution, tobacco production and its use by consumers is “tremendously destructive” for the environment.
Dr Vera e Silva, the Head of the WHO FCTC Secretariat, said, “People often immediately think of the health impact that tobacco has, but there is not enough awareness of how tremendously destructive it is for the environment too, on land, underwater and in the air… Studies indicate that tobacco growing could be up to 10 times more aggressive than all other deforestation factors.”
‘Swachhata Hi Seva 2018’ a jan andolan for Swachhata to be observed in the run-up to the 4th anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), i.e. from September 15th to October 2nd 2018 will be launched by the Prime Minister on 15th September. The campaign aims at accelerating the Jan-Andolan for realizing the vision of a Clean India, further reinforcing the belief that ‘Sanitation is everyone’s business’ (PIB)
Dr KK Aggarwal
Padma Shri Awardee
Vice President CMAAO
President HCFI
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