CMC organizing 8th National Stroke Conference

Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:15 PM
250 delegates from all over India will be participating
Health Minister Pb MM Mittal will be the Chief Guest
Ludhiana, 25 Feb.2013:(Shalu Arora and Rector Kathuria): The department of Neurology at Christian Medical College, Ludhiana is organizing the 8th National Stroke Conference of Indian Stroke Association from March 1st to 3rd in Hotel Park Plaza. Dr Jeyaraj D Pandian the Organizing Secretary mentioned that about 250 delegates from all over India will be participating in the conference. He also added that 16 International and 25 National faculty will be delivering talks on various aspects of stroke in the conference. The honourable Health and Family Welfare Minister of Government of Punjab Shri Madan Mohan Mittal will be the Chief Guest during the Inauguration of the conference on March 1st at 5 pm. Dr Abraham G Thomas Director of CMC and the Patron of the conference lauded the efforts of the department of Neurology in bringing this conference to Ludhiana.

A special session on ABC of stroke is being planned on March 1st focusing on neurology trainees, physicians and general practitioners.  Dr Yashpal Singh the joint Organising Secretary mentioned that the latest advances in stroke treatment like clot bursting therapy (thrombolysis) will be discussed in the meeting.  Sessions on newer technologies and treatments will be the highlight of March 2nd program.  On March 3rd there will be a symposium on research and ongoing clinical trials in the area of stroke. The approach to long term problems after a stroke will be dealt in the last session of the conference.

There will be two parallel programs during the conference. On March 1st there will be a three hours teaching course on “Stroke”in the CMC Hospital auditorium for the MBBS students, junior doctors and Nurses. On March 2nd and 3rd a National skills workshop is being arranged in CMC Hospital auditorium on Stroke rehabilitation. This is for students, physiotherapists, speech therapists and occupational therapists. This workshop is being organised by Dr Santosh Mathangi, Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and College of Physiotherapy (Mr Dheeraj KV and Mrs Benjamin, Vice-Principals).

The registration for the conference is still open and the organising committee has subsidised the registration fee for Physicians and Indian Medical Association members. Ten credit hours will be available from the Punjab Medical Council. The details are available in the conference website:  www.isacon2013.org
National Stroke Conference in Ludhiana

Tumor was close to many critical structures

Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:48 PM
Team at CMCH claims success

Ludhiana, 20th February, 2013(Shalu Arora and Rector Kathuria):Skull base surgery team involving Neurosurgeons and ENT surgeons at CMCH claims to have conducted a major surgery of a rare brain tumor in a 40 year old female.This 40-year-old housewife has never thought that her difficulty in swallowing and hoarseness of speech can be due to some brain tumor. So when she was investigated for her symptoms it was found that she was having a very rare complex tumor involving skull base region of the brain. Tumor was close to many critical structures of the brain. She was refused surgery at other private institutes and was referred to CMCH for further management. This kind of complex and aggressive tumor requires high level of surgical expertise and teamwork. Skull base team at CMCH, first of its kind in region involving Neurosurgeons, ENT surgeons and Neurointerventionist headed by Dr Sarvpreet Singh Grewal decided to take up the challenge and went ahead with the surgery.

The surgical team comprised of Dr. Sukhdeep Singh Jhawar, assistant professor neurosurgery, Dr. Ashsish Vargesh professor and head ENT, Dr Valsa Abrahem professor and head, Anesthesia. The operation lasted fifteen hours and was successful. Patient improved after surgery and was discharged on 10th day. Dr. Sukhdeep S Jhawar assistant professor neurosurgery, told our reporter that skull base region is the most difficult region of the body to operate. These tumors known as “glomus tumor” are very rare and not seen in day-to-day practice. Operations in this region require high level of surgical expertise, teamwork and institutional back up. This was a one of the first operation of this kind in region. But with recent advances and modernization we are able to do such complex cases at CMCH with our expert team.

बनें चिर युवा//डेढ़ साल बाद बिकने लगेगी G5 औषधि

9.02.2013, 09:33
नोवोसिबीर्स्क में विकसित औषधि के सारे प्री-क्लीनिकल टेस्ट पूरे

                        © फ़ोटो: ru.wikipedia.org

नोवोसिबीर्स्क के वैज्ञानिकों ने “संजीवनी” खोज ली है| उन्होंने एक अद्वितीय औषधि बनाई है जो मज्जा से स्टेम सेल यानी तना–कोशिकाएं बनवाती है| ये कोशिकाएं किसी भी रुग्ण अंग के पुनरुज्जीवन की क्षमता रखती हैं| सो, इस चमत्कारी औषधि की बदौलत व्यक्ति सदा युवा और स्वस्थ रह सकेगा|

स्टेम सेल से चिकित्सा का तो आजकल फैशन पूरे ज़ोरों पर है| इनसे दिल का दौरा (इन्फेर्क्शन), मस्तिष्क-आघात (ब्रेन हैमरेज) तथा कई तरह की गंभीर चोटों का इलाज करने में मदद मिल सकती है| सौंदर्य-उपचार यानी कोस्मेटोलोजी में तो इनकी सहायता से त्वचा को फिर से युवा बनाने के दावे किए जाते हैं| समस्या बस इतनी है कि इन कोशिकाओं के उपयोग की जो विधि इन दिनों प्रचलित है वह निरापद नहीं है, इस औषधि का विकास करनेवाली कंपनी के जनरल डायरेक्टर आंद्रेई अर्तामोनोव बताते हैं|

देखिए, आजकल काम कुछ इस तरह होता है: अस्थि-मज्जा से ताना-कोशिकाएं निकाली जाती हैं| फिर उन्हें विशेष द्रव्य में रखकर उनकी संख्या बढ़ाई जाती है और इसके बाद उन्हें “रोगी” की रक्त-प्रणाली में पुनः प्रवेशित किया जाता है| ध्यान देने की बात यह है कि इन कोशिकाओं का मल्टीप्लिकेशन मानव-शरीर के बाहर होता है| मानव शारीर में इन्हें डाले जाने के बाद इनका विभेदीकरण कैसे होगा यह कोई नहीं कह सकता – ये रुग्ण अंग में पहुँच कर उस अंग की कोशिकाओं का पुनर्निर्माण कर देंगी तो व्यक्ति स्वस्थ हो जाएगा, लेकिन अगर ये स्वस्थ अंग में पहुँच जाएं तो वहाँ क्या होगा? ह्रदय में पसली उग आई तो? दरअसल ऐसी कोशिकाएं मानव-शरीर के लिए “पराई” ही होती हैं|

अब नोवोसिबिर्स्क के वैज्ञानिकों ने इस समस्या का हल ढूँढ लिया है| उन्होंने G5 कोड-नाम वाली औषधि बनाई है| यह मनुष्य की अस्थि-मज्जा को नई तना-कोशिकाएं बनाने की “प्रेरणा” देती है| ये नवनिर्मित कोशिकाएं स्वयं ही विक्षत अंग को ढूँढ लेती हैं, और उसका “पुनर्निर्माण” कर देती हैं| विशेषज्ञ के शब्दों में G5 औषधि इन “मरम्मती-कोशिकाओं” को “घर” प्रदान कराती है, वे शरीर से बाहर नहीं जातीं| यह पुनरुज्जीवन औषधि है| अब तक संसार में इसका कोई समरूप नहीं है, आंद्रेई अर्तामोनोव कहते हैं:

आज के दिन में ऐसी कोई औषधि नहीं है| हमारी G5 अस्थि मज्जा को अपनी ही तना-कोशिकाएं बनाने की “प्रेरणा” देती है और ये कोशिकाएं मानव शरीर के भीतर ही रहती हैं| ज्यों-ज्यों मनुष्य की आयु बढ़ाती है, त्यों-त्यों उसके शरीर में तन-कोशिकाओं की संख्या कम होती जाती है, अतः हमारे अंगों के पुनरुज्जीवन की प्रक्रिया रुक जाती है, हम बूढ़े होने लगते हैं| अब चिकित्सा-विज्ञान में इस बात के प्रयास हो रहे हैं कि शरीर स्वयं अपने को बहाल करता जाए| 

आज तक सारी चिकित्सा लक्षणों को दूर करने वाली ही है| दर्द हो रहा है – दर्दहारी गोली दवाई ले लो| मानव शरीर में अंतर्निहित क्षमता का उपयोग करना कहीं अधिक मुश्किल काम है, लेकिन सही रास्ता यही है| इसी की बदौलत हम सब “युवा और सुखी हो पाएंगे, यह याद कर पाएंगे कि बचपन में हम कैसे थे|”

नोवोसिबीर्स्क में विकसित औषधि के प्री-क्लीनिकल टेस्ट सारे पूरे हो गए हैं| शीघ्र ही क्लीनिकल टेस्टिंग भी शुरू होगी| यह आशा की जा सकती है कि डेढ़ साल बाद G5 औषधि बिकने लगेगी|(रेडियो रूस से साभार)  
बनें चिर युवा//डेढ़ साल बाद बिकने लगेगी G5 औषधि Care, Health, Medicine, Traditional, Life, New Concept, Research, 
       

International Conference on Traditional Medicine

08-February-2013 14:11 IST
India has long history and culture for healthcare
The Department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, in collaboration with WHO-SEARO New Delhi will organize International Conference on Traditional Medicine at hotel Ashok, New Delhi on 12-14 February 2013.The conference will be participated by Health Ministers of the SEARO region, experts from WHO SEAR (South East Asia Region),WPR (Western Pacific Region) and other countries. 

The objective is to promote the role of traditional and complementary medicine (TM & CM) in healthcare provision in general and Primary Health Care in particular, evaluate the integration of TM & CM into National Health Systems and promotion of their use in Primary Healthcare, share research methodologies for studies on safety, efficacy and quality of TM & CM for PHC in order to identify best practices to ensure the safety, share National policies, programmes and experiences on TM &CM to promote and propagate in SEARO Region,exchange views and share evidence-based information and country experiences on TM & CM, identify priority issues and challenges in strengthening the development and appropriate integration of traditional medicine as part of the National Health system. 

It may be mentioned that traditional medicines are used around the world including South-East Asian countries for healthcare by the people. In recent years there has been global upsurge in the use of traditional medicine because ofits availability, accessibility and affordability as against the modern healthcare services which are beyond the reach of people. 

World Health Organization (WHO) has been supporting the development of traditional and complementary medicines (TM & CM) in all member countries. The 62nd World Health Assembly Resolution WHA62.13 in 2009 urged the Member States to undertake various activities in the field of traditional medicine in accordance with national capacities, priorities, relevant legislations and circumstances. The activities inter alia include strengthening communication between conventional and traditional medicine providers, formulating national policies, regulations and standards and cooperation among countries with regard to sharing knowledge and practices of traditional medicine. 

The South-East Asian (SEA) countries have a rich heritage of several systems of Traditional Medicine (TM). They have vast resources of medicinal plants and huge repositories of knowledge in TM. Different systems of traditional medicine and complementary/alternative medicine (TM/CAM) have been used in all countries of the South-East Asia Region (SEAR). WHO Regional Office for South East Asia has been assisting these countries to promote the use of TM so that valuable resource is utilized safely and effectively. 

India has long history and culture running over 5000 years of using traditional medicines for healthcare. Indian traditional systems of medicines viz. Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Siddha, and Sowa Rigpa are comprehensive scientific systems of medicine evolved in India. Over a period of time, India has developed vast network of infrastructure for its traditional system of medicine and Homoeopathy including five Research Councils (one for each system), National Institute for each system, National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), two statutory regulatory bodies (Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) and Central Council of Homoeopathy (CCH)), and two apex laboratories (Pharmacopoeial Laboratory for Indian Medicine (PLIM) and Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeial Laboratory (HPL)). India has also been able to achieve substantial integration by co-location of AYUSH facilities along with conventional facilities at primary health centres, community health centres and district hospitals. Due to sustained and multi-pronged integrated efforts, there is huge appreciation for Indian traditional systems of medicines and Homeopathy in the country and other parts of world particularly in South East-Asian countries. Government of India has adopted a long-term objective of establishing a system of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the country with functional integration as one of the strategies. 

The conference is expected to broaden and update the knowledge on integration, regulation and research priorities in TM & CM. It will also enhance cooperation among SEARO countriesin the field of traditional medicine. (PIB)International Conference on Traditional Medicine
BN/HB/AS