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Does your child really need all the prescribed vaccines?

December 25, 2016 SrijitaAll, Child, Does, Need, Prescribed, really, The, vaccines?, Your

The biggest association of paediatricians in India is heavily dependent on funding from vaccine manufacturers. The influence allegedly leading to immunisation guidelines being tweaked to include products of the funding companies. Technical committee members deciding the guidelines being on the board of vaccine manufacturers and getting paid by them. Hefty margins on vaccines being given to paediatricians administering the vaccines. These and several others skeletons came tumbling out of the cupboard of the Indian Academy of Paediatricians (IAP) when the convenor of its Advisory Committee on Vaccines and Immunization Practices…

X-mas meal plan for Diabetics

December 25, 2016 SrijitaDiabetics, for, Meal, Plan, X-mas

Santa’s here and so is the pin to burst your diabetic balloon! Many of us who suffer from this lifelong problem go through a tough time when Christmas is around. Since this is the best time to have Christmas puddings, cakes, cookies, mulled wine and everything that should get your blood glucose level rolling, here are some ways through which our diabetic friends can enjoy as much as anyone else: Stick to timely meals There are going to be too many meals to welcome Santa. Make a timetable for today.…

Here’s How Pregnancy Changes Your Brain to Make You a Better Mom

December 24, 2016 Srijitaa, Better, Brain, Changes, Here's, How, Make, mom, Pregnancy?, to, You, Your

Thinking about having a baby, but worried you’re not cut out for motherhood? You may take some comfort in this news: Pregnancy causes changes in a woman’s brain that appear to make her better able to care for her child, say researchers in Spain. Their new study is the first to show that giving birth involves long-lasting changes—for at least two years afterward—in the structure of a woman’s brain. It’s long been known that pregnancy causes hormonal and chemical surges throughout the body, but until now its impact on the…

Older women with breast cancer still left out of medical trials

December 24, 2016 SrijitaBreast, Cancer, Left, medical, of, Older, Out, Still, trials, With, Women

Older women are still underrepresented in medical trials evaluating treatments for breast cancer, according to a new study. Of three different types of trials evaluated by researchers, only one had an increase in enrollment of older women with breast cancer between 1985 and 2012. The other two had decreases. Seeing how older people react to cancer therapies “is crucial to inform decision-making and to optimally serve patients’ medical, emotional, and functional needs,” the authors of the study write in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, online December 19. “As physicians and…

Older women with breast cancer still left out of medical trials

December 24, 2016 SrijitaBreast, Cancer, Left, medical, of, Older, Out, Still, trials, With, Women

Antibiotics sales for use in US farm animals rose in 2015, FDA reports

December 24, 2016 Srijita2015:, animals, antibiotics, Farm, FDA, for, In, Reports, Rose, Sales, US, Use

LOS ANGELES – U.S. sales and distribution of antibiotics approved for use in food-producing animals increased 1 percent from 2014 to 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a report on Thursday. The report comes as scientists warn that regular use of antibiotics to promote growth and prevent illness in healthy farm animals contributes to the rise of dangerous, antibiotic-resistant “superbug” infections, which kill at least 23,000 Americans each year and pose a significant threat to global health. An estimated 70 percent of antibiotics used to fight human…