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Gelatin, egg, and chicken products may be used in the production of certain vaccines.
Gelatin is included in measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), varicella, diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis (DTaP), and Japanese encephalitis vaccines.
Egg protein is present in yellow fever and influenza vaccines.
Some people with egg allergies can be given the influenza vaccine safely.
Chicken proteins may be present in the yellow fever vaccine.
Lactose is a sugar derived from milk. Highly allergic patients should avoid using products that contain lactose (e.g., use metered dose inhalers rather than dry powder inhalers that contain lactose).
Soy lecithin is the fatty derivative of soy, and it contains trace amounts of soy proteins. Certain asthma inhalers contain small amounts of soy lecithin, which could potentially cause an allergic reaction in a person who was highly allergic to soybeans or peanuts. You should discuss the risks and benefits of these inhalers with your healthcare provider.
Casein is a cow's milk protein used as an anti–stick agent on latex gloves.
Cosmetics may contain a variety of food–derived ingredients, including milk, nut oils, wheat, and soy.
Craft item like modeling dough may contain wheat.
Egg white is sometimes used to smooth finger–paints.
Heart Care Foundation of India co–organized the 1st Delhi State Conference on CAD and Interventional Cardiology for GPs.
VARANASI: Looking for user–friendly, long–lasting and cost–efficient hip device to get relief from damaged hip joints? The innovative hip device developed in the department of orthopaedics, Banaras Hindu University, promises to end this by showing encouraging results with nearly eight years of follow up. The innovative device is called 'BHU hip device' and it has been invented to meet the socio–cultural and economic demands of the India–Pacific region. "It has shown encouraging results in nearly 500 patients, most of them suffering from intracapsular hip fractures that damaged hip joints in the past eight years. Besides, it allows patient to sit cross–legged and squat after hip replacement surgery," said Anil Kumar Rai, professor in the department of orthopaedics who came up with the innovative device.
Smokers with a history of heart attack or stroke on smoking cessation drug varenicline may increase their risk of a second heart attack or new onset peripheral vascular disease.
According to sources, it is estimated that 95% of sudden cardiac arrest victims die before reaching a hospital, resulting in approximately 250,000 deaths each year in the U.S. That's three lives every seven minutes—over 600 people a day.
A new study reported in the British Journal of Nutrition has found that people who took at least 250 mg of omega–3 fatty acids per day had a reduced risk of sudden cardiac death.
In Copenhagen, Denmark scientists studied 300 men and kept track of their vitamin D levels. The researchers discovered that a higher level of vitamin D in the body appears to boost reproductive health in males.
In an interesting study from Iran, it appears that broccoli sprout powder can increase the antioxidant capacity of blood in people with diabetes.
@DrKKAggarwal: If you think you'll lose, you're lost; For out in the world we find success begins with a fellow's will; It's all in the state of mind!
You can benefit by chanting the Chalisa like "Japa Meditation" and getting advantage of "Meditation." Repeated chanting of any mantra shifts one's awareness from sympathetic to parasympathetic mode.
Know your skill set: Ramdev assumed that skills required for teaching yoga and becoming the political leader were the same. He thought that skill sets are transferable. Lot of people make these mistakes when they assume that if they are enormously successful in one area, they will automatically succeed in other areas. Great sports players lose everything when they try their hand in business. Similarly great actors/movie stars flop as political leaders.
Don't take people for granted: Baba Ramdev assumed that his followers would follow him blindly. People became Ramdev's followers because of his expertise and knowledge on Yoga. Once he became a loose cannon and started threatening violence etc. the followers ditched him. Moreover, people supported his anticorruption agenda because of being anti–government rather than pro Ramdev. Most of the corporate failures occur because either customers/clients or employees/employer are taken for granted.
Know your friends/enemies motive: Baba Ramdev thought that the government was scared of him that is why senior ministers were courting him. The government was trying to prop him to divide the civil society and weaken their movement. Once the government realized that Baba Ramdev was not following the script they immediately cut him down to size. People overestimate their impact when they are approached by powerful people/lobby without realizing their motives.
Differentiate between perception and reality: The image of Baba Ramdev as all powerful was created by the media. Baba Ramdev started believing in this unreal image lionized by the media and thought that he can get away with anything. When the media turned its back and went on destroying his image, Baba Ramdev appeared to cut a sorry picture defending himself from their probing questions. In corporate life also the chamchas create the unreal image which the leader starts believing in.
When the going gets tough the tough get going: All of Baba Ramdev previous blusters, challenges and upright claim dissolved when he was caught in camera fleeing wearing womens' clothing with women followers as shield while his followers were being beaten and harassed by Police. This one moment will haunt Baba Ramdev till perpetuity. If Baba Ramdev had protested and arrested protecting his followers, he would have come out one up on the government garnering all the sympathy and support even from his non followers. Action speaks louder than the words and the real person emerges breaking the mask during the crisis/high pressure.
First Self–reflect and then point fingers at others: Baba Ramdev demanded transparency and anti corruption laws against black money but could not give information about his own sources of funds. On asked pointed questions on the ownership of the companies and their accounts he and his team did not answer directly and side stepped the issue.
Don't follow brinkmanship strategy when in doubt or without any backup: Baba Ramdev tried to garner support and goodwill by going on a fast without any clarity and as an amend to his previous goof ups. He thought he could create a mass hysteria, building pressure on the government. Government indifference and non–response forced him to break the fast in a whimper. Many times by threatening to resign, executives try to create the pressure on their bosses but if the boss remains unmoved or challenges the executive to resign, the brinkmanship blows up in the face as it happened in the Ramdev's case.
Factors that are predictive of a positive response to interferon (IFN) or nucleoside analogues include high pretreatment levels of aminotransferase (>2 × ULN), low pretreatment HBV DNA levels (<105 copies/mL or 20,000 IU/mL), late acquisition of HBV infection, and higher hepatocellular inflammation.
Treatment aims to achieve long term remission so that the chance of hepatocellular carcinoma and chronic liver disease is decreased.
Most of the cases of vasculotoxic snake bite have local swelling (88%), local pain 88% and anti snake venom requirement from 156 ml in mild cases to up to 295 ml in severe cases. Presence of vomiting, raised serum creatinine and neurotoxicity as predictors of mortality.
Modern testing procedures and rules for DNA analysis mean that with rare exception DNA testing results can be guaranteed to be more than 90% accurate for most paternity, forensic and genetically–based disease analysis. However, human error can come into play. A lab may mistakenly switch samples or key in data incorrectly. All of these factors are possible, but also are very rare in occurrence. If there is ever any doubt as to the authenticity or correctness of a test it can simply be performed again to confirm accuracy in another or same lab.
We get our DNA from our biological parents. Each of them contributes 50% of our chromosomes that will make our DNA – this same DNA will stay with us for our entire lives almost without change. This is the very reason that makes DNA such a great choice for uniquely identifying a person.
Questions may arise as to how accurate DNA tests are. After all, in the past blood tests could not have been as accurate as we might have hoped. They often left a bit of uncertainty or could not be conclusive in many areas. But thanks to the uniqueness of DNA almost all of these doubts can be taken away if the test is done with all the required authenticity.
Most DNA tests are run at least twice, both independent of each other. This not only ensures credibility of the test but also makes sure that no wrong data or incorrect marker analysis was performed on the first test. If any discrepancies are detected between the two tests then a new sample is used and the entire test is performed again to understand where the discrepancy may lay.
If there is ever any doubt as to the authenticity or correctness of a test and its result it can simply be performed again independently to confirm the accuracy and in case of forensic use of the report the sample must be forwarded to another authentic/accreditated lab for independent testing and reporting with a mention to legal agency about the situation/result of test.
A high blood level of the amino acid homocysteine has been linked to an increased risk of atherosclerosis and thrombosis. It is known that oral supplementation with folic acid will lower homocysteine levels to acceptable norms, but it is not clear just how much folic acid is required to achieve this effect.
Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation report that the amount of folic acid (400 micrograms) found in most multivitamin preparations is sufficient to lower homocysteine levels in heart disease patients. Their experiment involved 95 patients who had either had a heart attack or suffered from advanced atherosclerosis. The patients were divided into four groups with one group receiving 400 micrograms/day (0.4 mg/day) of folic acid, one group receiving 1 mg/day, one group receiving 5 mg/day, and the fourth group receiving a placebo. All patients receiving folic acid also received 12.5 mg of vitamin B6 per day and 500 micrograms of vitamin B12. After 90 days the plasma homocysteine levels had dropped from 13.8 to 9.6 micromol/L in the 400 micrograms/day folic acid group, from 13.0 to 9.8 micromol/L in the 1 mg/day group, and from 14.8 to 9.7 micromol/L in the 5 mg/day group. Also after 90 days the plasma levels of folic acid had risen from 28 nanomol/L in the placebo group to 63 nmol/L in the 400 micrograms/day supplement group, to 80 nmol/L in the 1 mg/day group, and to 162 nmol/L in the 5 mg/day group. Vitamin B6 levels rose from 75 nmol/L to about 250 nmol/L in the supplemented groups and vitamin B12 levels rose from about 300 picomol/L to 525 picomol/L. The researchers conclude that a daily dose of 400 micrograms of folic acid combined with vitamins B6 and B12 will normalize homocysteine levels in heart disease patients.
Which of the following statements can be regarded as primary action of Inhibin?
Correct answers received from: Dr Neelam Nath, Dr YJ Vasavada, Dr Muthumperumal Thirumalpillai, Doraisami Sundaram, Dr Anurag Julka, Dr Prabha Luhadia, Dr Surendra Bahadur Mathur, Dr Jainendra Upadhyay.
Correct answers received from: Dr Bmarak, Dr U Gau, Dr Amol Hartalkar, Dr Arun Chatterjee, Dr BB Aggarwal, Dr Pathik Parikh.
"The best investment against inflation is to improve your own earning power, your own talent. Very few people maximise their talent. If you increase your talent, they can't tax it or they can't take it away from you." Warren Buffet.
Generally 5 tiny incisions are necessary. Four are about half inch long and one is 1 inch long. These incisions are too small for any significant infection to occur and the risk of developing a hernia is less than 1%. The risks of infection, wound problems and hernias are close to 30% with the traditional open procedure.
The operation, in expert hands, can be performed quicker than an open operation. In fact, average operating room times are close to one hour. Less time in the operating room means less anesthesia and anesthesia–related complications.
Less pain. Many patients do not require any medications for pain by the time they go home.
Quicker return to work. Patient can often return to work in one week. However, it is generally recommended to take 2 weeks off from work to be on the safe side.
Better operation. The operation is performed under magnification. Surgeons are able to see details that are difficult in the open approach.
As patients are walking on the day of surgery and discomfort is easily controlled, patients are at lower risk to develop blood clots, pneumonia, bed sores or other complications resulting from prolonged immobility.
Medical profession has a defined code of ethics that governs the provision of services. A physician has to work within the legal and ethical framework, said Padma Shri and Dr B C Roy National Awardee Dr K K Aggarwal, President, Heart Care Foundation of India.
Elaborating on this, Dr Aggarwal further added that under Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations Act, 2002, (6.4.1) a physician shall not give, solicit, or receive, nor shall he offer to give solicit or receive, any gift, gratuity, commission or bonus in consideration of or return for the referring, recommending or procuring of any patient for medical, surgical or other treatment.
Dr Swati Y Bhave, Executive Director AACCI, Issue Editor – Asian Journal of Paediatric Practice said that a physician shall not directly or indirectly, participate in or be a party to act of division, transfer, assignment, subordination, rebating, splitting or refunding of any fee for medical, surgical or other treatment. This also applies to the referring, recommending or procuring by a physician or any person, specimen or material for diagnostic purposes or other study work. Under 7.19 it further says "A Physician shall not use touts or agents for procuring patients".
Under American Medical Association Code of medical ethics (6.02) payment by or to a physician solely for the referral of a patient is fee splitting and is unethical. A physician may not accept payment of any kind, in any form, from any source, such as a pharmaceutical company or pharmacist, an optical company, or the manufacturer of medical appliances and devices, for prescribing or referring a patient to the said source. Also referrals to healthcare facilities, clinics, laboratories, hospitals, or other healthcare facilities that compensate physicians for referral of patients are engaged in fee splitting, which is unethical. Healthcare facilities should not compensate a physician who refers patients there for the physician's cognitive services in prescribing, monitoring, or revising the patient's course of treatment. Offering or accepting payment for referring patients to research studies (finder's fees) is also unethical.
Dear Dr. Aggarwal ji, in the Daily eMedinewS 6th June 2011, Monday you've mentioned the CFL bulbs. Actually they contain considerable amounts of mercury. Yes, they save the energy compared to regular bulbs but are dangerous for the environment (see the attached articles; if you need the URLs for the attached pages click on the "Printable Version" link (at the top) and delete the "z" from the link, for example http://www.naturalnews.com/z022886.html is the link for printable version but http://www.naturalnews.com/022886.html is the link for the regular version). The tube lights that are so common here in India are also very damaging for the health since they emit strong EMF (Electromagnetic Fields). I'm also attaching pages about mercury in dental fillings and vaccines. Best regards, Marek Rozenberg.