Covid +ve woman suffers memory loss, brain fog

Malathy.IyerMumbai: When 47-year-old Palghar resident Shaista Pathan complained of an ache in her abdomen and head, doctors had no way of knowing that she had a rare manifestation of Covid-19 involving the brain. Covid’s neurological complications, which include stroke, are now getting attention. In the US, news reports said patients complained of forgetfulness or brain fog post-Covid. Two months after Pathan was rushed to Wockhardt Hospital at Mumbai’s Mira Road in the middle of the night in an agitated and aggressive state, she still has moments of “difficulties”. “My sons tell me not to think hard as I get a headache and a bit of confusion,” she said. ....read more

Multisystem Inflammatory Disorder in Children

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CMAAO Coronavirus Facts and Myth Buster: Current status of COVID-19 in CMAAO countries

With input from Dr Monica Vasudev 1107 Minutes of Virtual Meeting of CMAAO NMAs on “Current status of COVID-19 in CMAAO countries: NMA Presentation”10th October, 2020, Saturday, 9.30am-10.30amParticipants: Member NMAs:Dr KK Aggarwal, President CMAAO; Dr Yeh Woei Chong, Singapore, Chair CMAAO; Dr Alvin Yee-Shing Chan, Hong Kong, Treasurer, CMAAO; Dr Marie Uzawa Urabe, Japan; Dr Ravi Naidu, Malaysia’; Dr Md Jamaluddin Chowdhury, Bangladesh; Dr SM Qaisar Sajjad, Secretary General, Pakistan Medical Association ....read more

World COVID Meter 13th October: Acute manageable immunogenic thrombogenic inflammatory viral disease pandemic

Cases: 1M April 2, 2M April 15, 3M April 27, 4M May 8, 5M May 20, 6M May 30, 7M June 7, 8M June 15, 9M June 22, 10M June 29th, 11M July 4, 12M July 8, 13M July 13, 14M July 17, 15M July 23, 16M July 25, 17M July 29, 18M August 1, 19M August 6, 20M August 10, 21M August 16, 22M August 19, 23M August 21, 24M August 27, 25M August 30, 26M September 3, 27M September 7, 28M September 10, 29M September 14, 30M September 18, 31M September 21, 32M September 23, 33M September 28, 34M October 1, 35M October 4, 36M October 8, 37M October 11 Ground Zero: Wuhan - in live animal market or cafeteria for animal pathogens: 10th January; Total cases are based on RT PCR, 67% sensitivity More than one million new cases were reported around the world in the past three days, as France, Russia, Nepal and several American states set records for the highest daily number of new infections. India surpassed seven million total cases. ....read more

Understanding exact speech

Upanishads, Yoga sutras of Patanjali and teachings of Gautam Buddha, all talk about "the right speech". As per Gautam Buddha, the right speech has three components:   ●It should be based on truthfulness.   ●It should be necessary.   ●It should be kind. ....read more

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Indian generic drug makers to set up pharmaceutical cluster in Mexico

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Latin America has been an attractive investment area for Indian pharmaceutical companies and now six generic drug makers have signed a deal to set up a large pharmaceutical cluster for production and logistics in the Mexican state of Hidalgo. Generic drugs became popular in Latin America only after Indian pharmaceuticals entered the market in the late 1990s. This put pressure on multinational companies and local pharma companies to either lower their prices or increase the proportion of generic medicines sold. Medicines, vaccines and other pharmaceutical drugs, have since, become more affordable for Latin America’s lower middle class. And this has also helped the governments in the region to reduce the cost of public healthcare. During the early days of COVID-19 pandemic, Mexico suffered a shortage of medicines. As such, it identified Indian generic medicines as the best alternative to expensive, branded medicines and raw material that it currently imports from the US and European countries such as Germany, Switzerland, Spain, France, Ireland and Canada.

Covid medicines help Cipla, Glenmark post strong sales growth in a subdued pharma market

moneycontrol

The long-standing Covid-19 pandemic may have spread much gloom across industries, but there are some that have reason to cheer. Among the pharma big-names, Cipla, Glenmark and Ajanta Pharma have emerged as outliers, posting double-digit growth rates in Q2FY21. Covid drugs such as Remdesivir, Favipiravir and Azithromycin, among others, helped both Cipla and Glenmark post strong growth in sales during the quarter. Ciplas sales rose 11.5 percent year-on-year (YoY), driven by respiratory brands Duolin, Montair Lc, Asthalin and Aerocort, which grew at healthy double digits, while Azithromycin brand Azee, which is widely prescribed for Covid-19, recorded a 42 percent rise. Respiratory and anti-infectives form about 56 percent of Ciplas sales.

Do not let your guard down post COVID-19, say doctors

thehindu

With one in four recovered patients turning up at hospitals with post COVID-19 infections, doctors say it is important that patients do not let their guard down even after recovery. Doctors are seeing people reporting various symptoms ranging from recurrence of fever and cough to breathlessness due to fibrosis or scarring in the lungs, cardiac issues and stroke due to blood clotting. While some patients are reporting psychological distress, others have minor issues that can be treated with just a little counselling, said doctors.

Haryana doctors org writes to Khattar after CMO is suspended following MLAs complaint

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Kaithal (Haryana), Oct 13 (PTI) An organisation of doctors in Haryana has sought Chief Minister M L Khattars intervention after Kaithals chief medical officer (CMO) was suspended following local BJP MLA Leela Rams complaint to the health minister. Dr Jai Bhagwan was placed under suspension on October 7, though the orders issued to this effect by the government did not mention the reasons behind the move. The action came barely days after the Kaithal MLA wrote to state Health Minister Anil Vij, accusing the CMO of corruption and not disclosing the list of candidates hired under an outsourcing policy.

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