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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - July 2019

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Aug 17, 2019

The Aditya Birla World Academy Features In 'The Commonwealth At 70' Book

The Aditya Birla World Academy, India's leading International school is the only Indian school to be featured in 'The Commonwealth at 70: From Westminster to the World' book published by the popular London publishers St James's House and the History of Parliament Trust.
Mrs. Neerja Birla, Chairperson of The Aditya Birla World Academy attended the event 'Commonwealth at 70', that commemorated 70 years of the Commonwealth on 25th June 2019, at Westminster Abbey, UK.

New Organ Lurking Under Skin Discovered

Scientists have discovered a new organ in the skin that senses pain and could pave the way for more effective painkilling medication.
These pain-sensing cells form a "mesh-like network" which is so extensive it should be considered an organ, scientists say. Previously it was believed the endings of nerve cells were unwrapped, but this latest research suggests that is not the case.
Study shows that sensitivity to pain does not occur only in the skin's nerve fibres, but also in this recently discovered pain-sensitive organ.
These cells sit below the outer layer of skin (the epidermis) and their long tentacle-like protrusions extend up into the outer layer.

Schools Named After Atal Bihari Vajpayee Will Be Opened In All Divisions

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced that residential schools, named after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, will be built in all 18 mandals (divisions) in the state.
Yogi Adityanath made this announcement at an event at the Lok Bhawan in Lucknow, commemorating Atal Bihari Vajpayee's first death anniversary, i.e. on 16 august,2019.
Yogi Adityanath also announced that a 25-feet tall statue of the former prime minister will be installed at Lok Bhawan in December 2019.

Aug 16, 2019

Rajasthan Launches New Higher Education Model

A new higher education model has been launched in Rajasthan for distribution of faculties and movable assets among the government colleges at the district level to rationalise the availability of resources.
The model will create a pool for sharing of facilities which will benefit the colleges lacking infrastructure.
Minister of State for Higher Education Bhanwar Singh Bhati inaugurated the model, titled Resource Assistance for Colleges with Excellence, in the presence of principals of colleges.
The colleges would get equal opportunities for imparting quality education with the adoption of the new model.

New TB Drug Gets US FDA Nod

The Food and Drug Administration endorsed the approach, approving the newest of the three drugs used in the regimen.
Usually, the World Health Organization adopts approvals made by the FDA or its European counterpart, meaning the treatment could soon come into use worldwide.
Tuberculosis has now surpassed AIDS as the world's leading infectious cause of death, and the so-called XDR strain is the ultimate in lethality.
Only a tiny fraction of the 10 million people infected by TB each year get this type, but very few of them survive it. The treatment itself is extraordinarily difficult.
But in the trial Msimango joined, nicknamed Nix-TB, patients took only five pills a day for six months.
The pills contain just three drugs: pretomanid, bedaquiline and linezolid. (Someday, the whole regimen might come in just one pill, as HIV drugs do, one expert said.)
But even the new treatment poses hazards. Short-term use of linezolid against severe hospital infections causes few problems, but use for many weeks against TB can kill nerves in the feet, making it hard to walk, or can suppress the bone marrow where blood cells are made.
The FDA approved bedaquiline in 2012 for use against multi-drug resistant TB (the XDR strain is an even deadlier subset), and in 2015 the WHO followed suit.
FDA advisory committee voted 14-4 to approve it. Some advocacy groups argued at the time that the drug had been too little tested.

Aug 15, 2019

Karnataka Launches E-Step To Empower Student Start-Ups

The Department of IT, BT and S&T in Karnataka, through Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society (KITS), has launched the E-Step, an initiative to empower student start-ups.
E-Step focuses on boot camps, mentoring and training programmes which cover various aspects of entrepreneurship.
E-Step, an initiative from Start-up Cell, is specially crafted for students/start-ups/entrepreneurs to understand the basics of entrepreneurship from experienced trainers.
In the first phase, a day-long boot camp across New Age Incubation Networks (NAIN) will be organised. Boot camps will be held at 30 colleges between August 12 and September 14, 2019 in Mandya, Chikkaballapura,Tumakuru, Hassan, Dakshina Kannada, Mangaluru, Shivamogga, Davanagere, Ballari, Dharwad, Belagavi, Bagalkot, Vijayapura, Kalaburgi and Bidar.

159 Free Tests On India's First Diagnostics List

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has finalized the country's first National Essential Diagnostics List (NEDL) that recommends that at least 159 tests should be made available for patients in even rudimentary government health facilities.
The list is on the lines of the essential drugs list, the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) which was first released in 1996 and last updated in 2015.
The diagnostics list mentions105 general laboratory tests for a broad range of common conditions, 30 disease-specific tests such as for HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis, and 24 imaging tests including X-rays, CT and MRI scans and ultrasound sonography.

Aug 14, 2019

Breakthrough In Ebola Cure

Scientists are a step closer to finding the first effective treatments for the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever after two potential drugs showed encouraging survival results in a clinical trial in DR Congo.
Two experimental drugs Regeneron's REGN-EB3 and a monoclonal antibody called mAb114 - were both developed using antibodies harvested from survivors of Ebola.
They showed "clearly better" results in patients in a trial of four potential treatments being conducted during the world's second largest Ebola outbreak in history, now entering its second year in DR Congo.

Aug 10, 2019

Campaign For Non-Judgemental Gynaecs Gets Support

Two non-government organisations, Haiyya and Sacchi Saheli, have taken it upon themselves to ensure women receive "health care over stigma".
The campaign aims at motivating doctors, especially gynaecologists, to provide information about sex and sexuality without administering sermons.
Under the campaign, the organisations have come up with ten recommendations that can guide doctors in providing unbiased care.
The president of the Delhi Medical Council (DMC), a statutory body responsible for overlooking the practice of modern medicine in the state, has also extended support to the campaign.

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