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A new study by scientists at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University suggests that a micronutrient in human breast milk provides significant benefit to the developing brains of newborns, a finding that further illuminates the link between nutrition and brain health and could help improve infant formulas used in circumstances when breastfeeding isn’t possible. The study, published July 11 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), also paves the way to study what role this micronutrient might play in the brain as we age. Researchers found that the micronutrient, a sugar molecule called myo-inositol, was most prominent in human breast milk during the first months of lactation, when neuronal connections termed synapses are forming rapidly in the infant brain. This was true regardless of the mother’s ethnicity or background; the researchers profiled and compared human milk samples collected across sites in Mexico City,...

Delhi: Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) has announced the final result for Round-1 of NEET UG 2023 counseling .The result includes Rank, Allotted Quota, Allotted Institute, Course, Allotted Category, and Remarks. A total of 22902 candidates are there on the list. To view the result, click on the link below – https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/ug-result-215350.pdf Candidates whose category or quota has been changed in the same institution and subject are required to get an online-generated relieving letter and get admitted to the changed category or changed quota seat from the allotted institution. Such candidates must get a fresh online generated admission letter for the changed category or quota seat otherwise, the allotted seat will be cancelled due to non-admission. Also Read: MBBS seats of medical colleges that received Late LOPs will be included in Round 2 NEET Counselling: MCC The allotment letters can be downloaded, and reporting shall be commenced from 10:0...

Telangana : Gland Pharma has announced that the  United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has conducted Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) Inspection at the Company’s VSEZ Sterile Oncology Facility at Visakhapatnam between 20th July, 2023 and 28th July, 2023. The inspection was concluded with Zero 483 observations and a classification of No Action Indicated (NAI). No action indicated (NAI), means no objectionable conditions or practices were found during the inspection. Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that the  company had received zero observations from the USFDA after an inspection at the company's API Facility at JNPC, Visakhapatnam. Read also: USFDA issues zero observations for Gland Pharma Visakhapatnam API facility Gland Pharma, a generic injectable-focused pharmaceutical company was established in 1978 in Hyderabad. It has a wide range of injectables, including vials, ampoules, pre-filled syringes, lyophilized vials, dry powders, infusions,...

New Delhi: Following the announcement that medical colleges will have to undergo assessment for rating, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has now published its agreement with the Quality Council of India (QCI) on its portal for everyone to check out.  Among the several objectives specified in the MoU, the roles and responsibilities of QCI in the assessment and rating of medical colleges have been clearly mentioned in the document. According to the MoU, the Council will develop and maintain a comprehensive framework for the assessment and rating of medical colleges. It will also have the responsibility of developing, customizing, and maintaining the IT platform, conducting assessments, evaluations, on-site visits to medical colleges etc. Another job of QCI shall be to appoint qualified assessors and evaluators for assessing and rating medical colleges. It will also train the assessors regarding the criteria of assessment and usage of IT platforms and provide technical su...

New Delhi: Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices Bureau of India (PMBI), the implementing agency of Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) added new products in their basket such as Dapagliflozin 10mg & Metformin Hydrochloride(Extended Release) 1000mg Tablets for Diabetes, Jan Aushadhi Protein (High Protein) Powder, Jan Aushadhi Protein for Women (Whey Protein Powder), etc. Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices Bureau of India (PMBI), which implements Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) regularly analyses various trends of the market and based on the analysis, includes medicines and other products to sell through these Kendras at affordable prices. In the same line, PMBI has now included some new variants of medicines for diabetes and different types of nutraceuticals at affordable prices. The Government has decided to open 10,000 Jan Aushadhi Kendras by 31st December 2023 in the country. A total 9512 Jan Aushadhi Kendras have been opened acr...

New Delhi:  India has altogether 13,08,009 allopathic doctors registered with the State Medial Councils and the National Medical Commission (NMC), as on June 2022, informed the Union Minister of State for Health Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar. "Assuming 80% availability of registered allopathic doctors and 5.65 lakh AYUSH doctors, the doctor population ratio in the country is 1:834," the MoS Health informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Referring to the availability of nurses and allied healthcare professionals, the Minister informed that there are 2.10 nurses per 1000 population and 13 lakh Allied and Healthcare Professionals in the country. The information was shared by the MoS Health in response to queries regarding the availability of doctors, nurses and hospital beds in India. Another member of the Parliament also raised the issue of inadequacy of doctors in rural areas, despite creating more medical colleges. The Minister was also asked about the measures which are being ta...

Maharashtra: Maha CET Cell has extended the online registration process for NEET UG 2023 [MBBS/BDS/BAMS/BHMS/BUMS] courses. The tentative schedule for Registration (Phase-2) for AYUSH and Allied courses has also been released. Extended Schedule of Registration (Common for All Courses) - Sr.No. Activity Date & Time 1. Online Registration and Session Apply (Common for All Courses) MBBS/ BDS/ BAMS/ BHMS/ BUMS/ BPTH/ BOTH/ BASLP/ B(P&O) Extended upto 31/07/2023 12.00 pm 2. Payment of Registration Fees through Online Payment Gateway for MBBS/ BDS/ BAMS/ BHMS/ BUMS/ BPTH/ BOTH/ BASLP/ B(P&O) (A candidate will be treated as registered for the process only after successful Payment of the fees.) Extended upto 31/07/2023 02.00 pm 3. Uploading of colored scanned copies of Original Requisite Documents on the portal as per the list. Documents will be verified online. Extended upto 31/07/2023 05.00 pm 4. Publication of Seat Ma...

USA: The Food and drug administration has approved lotilaner ophthalmic solution 0.25% (Xdemvy) as the first specific treatment for Demodex blepharitis. In Demodex blepharitis Demodex mites invade and reside in hair follicles of the eyelashes and subsequently cause eyelid inflammation. “We are thrilled to announce the FDA approval of XDEMVY for the treatment of Demodex blepharitis and look forward to making this product broadly available to the millions of patients who have not had any FDA-approved therapeutics for this disease,” said Bobak Azamian, MD, PhD, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tarsus. “This tremendous milestone was achieved through a successful collaboration of our talented Tarsus team, countless eye care providers and the hundreds of patients who participated in our trials. We are grateful and honoured for the opportunity to introduce the first and only approved therapeutic for this disease to the eye care community.” The FDA approval is based on results from ...

USA: An orexin receptor 2 agonist led to greater improvements in measures of cataplexy and sleepiness than a placebo over 8 weeks in a phase 2 trial involving patients with narcolepsy type 1. Narcolepsy type 1 is caused by lack or severe loss of brain orexin neuropeptides. The findings from the phase 2, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of TAK-994, an oral orexin receptor 2–selective agonist, in narcolepsy type 1 patients, were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Owing to hepatic adverse events, the phase 2 trial and an extension trial were terminated early. Christian von Hehn, Takeda Development Center Americas, Lexington, MA, and colleagues included patients with confirmed narcolepsy type 1 according to clinical criteria. 73 patients were randomly assigned to receive twice-daily oral TAK-994 (30 mg; n=17, 90 mg; n=20, or 180 mg' n=19) or placebo (n=17). Primary end-point data were available for 41 patients; the main reason for missing data was early trial te...

Delhi:  Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) has released the list of eligible NRI candidates for NEET UG admissions this year. The list includes Roll Number and Candidate Name. 679 candidates have been found eligible for NEET UG admission. The detailed list is enclosed in the notice below.  Further, the candidates have been converted provisionally from INDIAN to NRI for the purpose of UG counselling 2023-24 on the basis of scrutiny of documents sent by them to the MCC of DGHS. However, the candidates have to produce the same original documents at the time of reporting in case an NRI seat is allotted to them, failing which their admission is liable to get cancelled. Also Read: MCC notifies on Scrunity Of NEET Applications from NRI candidates, details NEET UG counselling schedule - 1st Round – Verification of Tentative Seat Matrix by the participating Institutes and NMC Registration/Payment Choice Filling/ Locking Processing of Seat Allotment Result ...

Understanding the close interaction between Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease & Type 2 Diabetes, and continuously evolving evidence, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has recently updated its guidelines regarding screening and treatment in NAFLD with Type 2 Diabetes. The guideline recommends the screening of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) with clinically significant fibrosis among individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) or prediabetes using a calculated fibrosis-4 index. (Level of Evidence B) Liver disease affects up to 70% of people with T2DM. Given the close pathophysiological relationship between the two diseases, there is a prudent need to consider an aggressive multipronged treatment approach for managing T2DM with NAFLD. The new recommendations released in the latest issue of Standards of Care in Diabetes—2023 , are based in the light of the latest scientific research and clinical trials. On the treatment side, the new update recommends Pioglita...

Mathura: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday inaugurated PET-CT scanner machine for cancer patients at Ramakrishna Mission Charitable Hospital in Vrindavan.  “An increase in diseases triggers need for health facilities. The state government is robustly working in this direction and positive changes will be seen if charitable, financial and industrial organizations make efforts to provide better health facilities to the common man”, said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Also Read:Pune: PET Scan to aid cancer patients in Sassoon Hospital Inaugurating the PET-CT scanner machine, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath praised Kotak Mahindra Group for providing a PET-CT machine from its CSR fund and described it as an inspiration for other financial and industrial institutions. “Poor patients will get the maximum benefit from the PET-CT scanner which has been made available but is not accessible to people in the surrounding districts.” The Chief Minis...

aixNagpur: A harvested human heart was airlifted from Nagpur to Pune in an IAF plane on Wednesday morning and later transplanted into a recipient admitted to the Army Institute of Cardio-Thoracic Sciences (AICTS) in the western Maharashtra city. The live heart, retrieved from a woman declared brain dead, was successfully transplanted into the recipient, a male air warrior at the Pune-based AICTS, later in the day.  Also Read:47-year-old brain-dead patient gives new lease of life to four in Delhi The vital organ was sent through a green corridor created by the civil administration before being transported to Pune, more than 700 km from Nagpur, on an Indian Air Force (IAF) AN-32 aircraft in the "most expeditious" manner, said a defence release here. The flying time was around 90 minutes, said an official. A separate press release issued by the zonal transplant coordination centre here said the donor of the heart was a 31-year-old woman, Shubhangi Gannyarpawar, who re...

China: A recent study published in BMC Psychiatry has discovered an association between vitamin D deficiency and older age with higher depression risk, despite older age being a protective factor for vitamin D deficiency. Worldwide, depression is one of the most common mental disorders that has become a major public health concern and one of the leading causes of the global disease burden. Its occurrence risk is associated with vitamin D deficiency and may also increase with age, while there is a close relation of serum vitamin D levels with age. The existing studies primarily focused on the relationship between vitamin D and depression, or the relationship between depression and age, and they lacked analysis and comparison of the relationship between these three predictors in the same sample. Additionally, in these predictors, there is also a lack of large-sample epidemiological surveys. Therefore, it is particularly requisite to conduct a reliable cross-sectional analysis of lar...

Delhi: Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) has informed that scrutiny of NRI applications is still going for NEET UG candidates. Candidates who have sent applications for conversion of their nationality from ‘Indian’ to ‘NRI’ are hereby informed that scrutiny of NRI applications is still going on due to the large number of applications received by the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) of DGHS. The list of eligible candidates will be uploaded by 11:00 A.M on 27.07.2023. Accordingly, to provide adequate time for candidates to exercise choices, the time for Choice Filling is being extended till 11:55 P.M. of 27.07.2023. The Choice Locking will be effective from 03:00 P.M of 27.07.2023 up to 11:55 P.M of 27.07.2023. Also Read: MCC notifies on Reset Registration facility for NEET candidates, check out details The registration process for NEET UG counselling is still going on. The Round 1 registration process begins today and will end on August 1, 2023. The choice filling or locking...

Hyderabad :  NATCO Pharma Limited has announced the submission of Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) containing a paragraph IV certification with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the generic version of Erdafitinib Tablets 3 mg, 4 mg, and 5 mg strengths. Erdafitinib is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC). Erdafitinib Tablets are marketed in the United States (US) by Janssen Biotech under brand Balversa. NATCO has been named as defendant in a lawsuit filed in the US district court of New Jersey by Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, Janssen Biotech Inc. and Otsuka holdings Co.’s Astex Therapeutics Ltd. "NATCO believes that the ANDA is possibly sole first-to-file based on its filing date and may be eligible for 180 days of marketing exclusivity at the time of launch," the company stated. Read also: Multiple Myeloma medicine: Natco Pharma unveils Pomalidomide under brand NAT-POMALIDOMIDE in Ca...

Acne is a common skin disease with an estimated global presence of 9.4% and an annual cost of $3 billion in the United States. Researchers have found in a new  meta-analysis  that oral isotretinoin was the most effective treatment for acne. The  findings of the study  have  been  published in The Annals of Family Medicine.  In their comprehensive meta-analysis (comprising 221 randomized controlled trials involving 65,601 patients), researchers investigated the effectiveness of various pharmacological therapies for acne vulgaris across diverse age groups and genders. The articles described 37 interventions, with a median patient age of 20 years old and median duration of treatment of 12 weeks. The median total, inflammatory and non-inflammatory lesion counts were 71.5, 27 and 44, respectively. The study revealed that oral isotretinoin was the most effective treatment (mean difference 48.41; p-score 1.00), followed in efficacy by a triple therapy con...

Jammu: Dr Ashutosh Gupta has recently been appointed as the Principal of Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu. This came after the former principal Shashi Sudan Sharma was shunted out on Tuesday after she was booked by the crime branch under the allegations of tampering with her date of birth. Dr Ashutosh Gupta has been working as the Head of the Department of Radiotherapy.  Also Read:DOB Fabrication Case: Court rejects anticipatory bail plea of GMC Jammu Principal The Secretary, Health and Medical Education Department, Bhupinder Kumar issued an order on 25th July. The order stated that Gupta will hold the charge of the post of principal, GMC, Jammu, in addition to his own duties, for a period of one year, or till further orders. Dr Gupta completed his MBBS from GMC Jammu and he pursued MD (Radiotherapy) from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research. He has worked as a Senior Resident in Radiotherapy at PGI Chandigarh. He also worked as a Senior Hou...

Hyderabad: Telangana government has recently taken several steps to strengthen the health sector including placing importance on accelerating  the promotion process for 190 assistant professors to associate professor positions in teaching hospitals. Health Minister Harish Rao has talked about the necessity to expedite the recruitment and promotion process of assistant and associate professors. This came after a review meeting held in July where the minister gave an ultimatum to the authorities to complete the process within a week and start the postings at the earliest.  Also Read:Apollo Hospitals completes over 23000 organ transplants in 11 years The Minister emphasized the need to expedite the promotion process for Telangana Vaidya Vidhan Parishad's 112 deputy civil surgeons and civil surgeons. He stated that the orders for promotions should be completed in 15 days. He also demanded that Telangana Vaidya Vidhana Parishad should swiftly complete the promotion process f...