The Union health ministry is planning to relax its norms over opening of new medical colleges and it requested the Medical Council of India (MCI) to prepare of a series of medical reforms particularly in land required to start medical college.
As on date, the government has allowed to start a medical college in a 10 acre plot like cities in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore and Ahmedabad. Government is very keen in opening new medical colleges at Orissa, U.P, Bihar and Jharkhand.
The government previously allowed to open new medical colleges in …

The medical services at Rajasthan has come to a halt and crippled the state due to indefinite strike called by doctors and ended in reported dozens of death of patients and about 5,000 doctors have tendered their resignations.
All government doctors belonging to all hospitals including government owned hospitals, primary health centre and dispensaries and resident doctors of the major six government hospitals are going on strike from December 21 for getting their pay hike and time bound promotions and for getting rid of other grievances.
Private Doctors of the …

The first observational study revealed the usage of statins is found to reduce the mortality rate in patients who were confirmed for influenza and hospitalized.
Meredith Vandermeer MPH of the Oregon Public Health Division led the study co-authored by William Schaffner, M.D., professor and chair of Preventive Medicine.
Schaffner said that statins could be combined with anti-viral drugs for treating influenza.
Both the authors studied the patients who were treated with statins with anti-viral drugs in treating influenza during the year 2007-2008. This study was carried out to evaluate the association between patients …

The health ministry of Somalia launches new plan to eradicate cholera and it plans to initiate in the capital Mogadishu and it aims to educate at least one person in every house to get necessary awareness and knowledge to prevent the disease spread and what to do when symptoms occur.
WHO organization said that Somalia had 60,000 cases of cholera since January and said that most of the affected were children under the age of five.
WHO’s Christian Lindmeier told Journalists in Geneva that Somalia recorded 6,300 cases of cholera …

An Indian student, Ms.Jyothi Amge was confirmed as the World’s shortest living woman by Guinness World Records.
Jyoti Amge was measured 62.8cm(24.7in) and she was conferred with the title on Friday while she was celebrating her 18th birthday in the city of Nagpur.
Jyoti Amge was found to be shorter than the previous title holder for shortness. The previous title holder was Bridgette Jordan of America and now Jyoti Amge was found to be 7cm shorter than Bridgette Jordan.
Jyoti Amge was awarded for her shortness in the year 2009 and she was …

World Health Organization on Friday issued its warning to European nations to be alert and to take strict measures to prevent and contain measles. This has been issued by WHO after it received many reports of measles in wide areas of Europe.
According to its recent data on its hand WHO organization said that about 26,000 new cases of measles were recorded in Western European nations that include 14,000 cases in France alone. WHO said that it received nine death reports out of which six has occurred at France.
Measles …

British women are alerted to under go medical-check up who had been already undergone breast implant treatment.
The women with silicone gel believed to have heightened risk of cancer. The alert has been made due to the death of a French woman who had the implant with French made silicone gel. The French made silicone is not worthy in safety and more likely to lead than other brands.
There are as many as 50,000 women are living in Britain with breast cancer including who had breast implant.
Poly Implants Protheses has become popular …

Scientists have shown hope that the spinal cord injury patients may be helped to regain their walking ability by teeth.
The mirror reports that scientists have put the dental pulp stem cells into the broken back of rats and which resulted in some regain of walking ability.
This could ensure to go for further animal and human trials which could result in helping spinal cord injury patients.
Scientists said that this pulp and its stem cells could be extracted from the human wisdom teeth and it could support the broken nerves by regenerating …

U.S.Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its draft guidance to help artificial pancreas researchers and manufacturers to design and submit the same for approval. Artificial pancreas is devices to patients of diabetes 1 to provide treatment
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The draft guidance is flexible for the design and testing of devices so that they can still meet regulatory requirements for efficacy and safety. The guidance suggests guidelines for the number of patients to be involved and time duration of the study to be conducted.
Jeffrey Shuren, M.D., director the of the FDA’s Centre for Devices …

A recent study at London showed that a pill containing multi-vitamin showed improved pregnancy rate while compared to those who took only folic acid.
The study pointed out that the chances of pregnancy were high when compared to those who did not take it.
The study revealed that the supplement containing Vitamin A, C and E, Zinc and Selenium are often absent from our diets.
The study was conducted at University College London and it involved about 56 women aged between 18 to 40 who experienced failure to pregnancy by using IVF …