The blog of the Doctors from Madurai Medical College - 1973 Batch-mates
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Demise of Batch-mate

It is informed hereby that our batch-mate, Dr.Murugadas expired on 31st October 2010.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

'Nallamaana Thamilagam' to prevent NCDs!

Non-Communicable diseases have now become more common. A programme called 'Nallamaana Thamilagam' will be initiated by Tamil Nadu Government in the first week of November 2010. With it, it is aimed to improve the health status if rural population in Tamil Nadu by reducing the risk factors associated with Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). It is also hoped that it will increase the awareness about the risk factors and adopting healthy lifestyles to prevent the NCDs.
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Friday, October 22, 2010

Mosquitoes to check Dengue and Malaria!

News from a daily:
For tackling Dengue menace, Genetically modified male mosquitoes (GMMs) are to be released in our environment.

Excerpt::
"The GMMs will copulate with the female (Aedes and Anopheles) mosquitoes and cause the larvae to die due to the presence of killer genes. This will make them(Aedes and Anopheles) refractory to transmit Dengue virus and Plasmodium," said Dr.B.K.Tyagi, Director in-charge, Centre for Research in Medical Entomology (CRME), at Madurai.

Note this:
Malaysian Government would be releasing about 2000 GMMs this year. Read more about it here:
Malaysia to carry out GM mosquito trial
Malaysia adopts GM mosquito

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

News about vaccine against Pneumococcus

Read news about the launch of a new vaccine to prevent Pneumococcal diseases in infants and children.

Excerpt:
‘The World Health Organization (WHO) has sought the inclusion of Prevenar in the National Immunization Programmes of developing countries as a high priority especially where under five mortality is more than 50 per 1,000 live births or where more than 50,000 children die annually. In India’

Click here to read all the news --> Pneumococcal vaccine

Monday, October 4, 2010

Batch-mates promoted!

Congratulations to our Batch-mates who have been now promoted as Joint Directors of Medical & Rural Health Services in the Tamilnadu Government Medical Services! They are:
Dr.Azikannammal
Dr.Raju
Dr.Gnanavel