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Holding the treating hospital and doctors including a gynaecologist and a surgeon guilty of medical negligence, the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Jalandhar has directed them to pay Rs 5 lakh as compensation to a complainant, whose wife died after delivery due to excessive bleeding.

1..Doctor does not remove healthy appendix, still directed to pay compensation

2. Ladakh’s first medical college set to begin academic session next year:

3. MBBS counselling will begin once Health Ministry releases NEET UG list

4. NEET PG 2021: SC allows OCI candidates to appear in General Category Counselling

5.Govt to amend New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules to add cell derived products as new drugs

1. Tralokinumab, corticosteroids helpful in AD

2. Smoking cessation reduces CVD risk

3. Peri-implantitis can cause implant removal

4. DPN causes cognitive decline

5. Pain, sleep quality, distress interlinked

Peri-implantitis is the leading cause of dental implant removal, according to a study published in the Journal of Periodontology  A cross-sectional study was designed to shed light on the clinical sequelae and patient satisfaction after dental implant removal (IR).

 Patients undergoing ≥1 IRs were eligible. The reasons for implant failure, clinical and radiological parameters before and after IR, and the surgical and prosthetic treatments offered after IR was assessed. Patient satisfaction was recorded and the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP)-14 was used to document patient self-reported dysfunction and discomfort attributed to IR.  

Lastly, patient expectations after IR were also evaluated.

Prolonged dual antiplatelet therapy is the treatment of choice for patients with acute coronary syndrome who have undergone percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with a drug-eluting stent.  The rationale is anchored in the understanding that drug-eluting stents impair the vascular healing process because exposure of the metal in the stent serves as a nidus for stent thrombosis. But the ideal duration of this therapy is still a gray area for stable angina patients undergoing PCI.  The appropriate duration of dual antiplatelet therapy in patients at high risk for bleeding after the implantation of a drug-eluting coronary stent remains unclear.   Researchers have shown that 1 month of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) is non-inferior to the continuation of therapy for at least 2 additional months with regard to the occurrence of net adverse clinical events and major adverse cardiac or cerebral events; along with the added advantage of lower incidence of major or clinically relevant nonmajor bleeding.   The results of this multicenter, randomized, open-label, noninferiority trial with sequential superiority testing were published in the latest issue of NEJM last week.

A population study by Su-Min Jeong and the team revealed that smoking cessation, but not reduction, reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Also, a sustained cessation of smoking reduced stroke and mortality chances. The findings of the study are published in the European Heart Journal.  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), smoking cigarettes increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD), stroke, respiratory problems, etc. Tobacco use is the most common preventable cause of death however reduction doesn't help its risk factors. Su-Min Jeong and the team, therefore, aimed to assess the association of smoking cessation and reduction with the risk of cardiovascular disease.

The Tamil Nadu Medical Council (TNMC) has recently issued notices to two doctors for allegedly issuing fake "life certificates" of people who had died earlier.

One of the two doctors is serving as an Assistant Surgeon with the Royapettah Government Hospital, Chennai, whereas the other doctor runs a private clinic in Hosur.

The Tamil Nadu Medical Council president Dr. K. Senthil has issued notices to both the doctors. Dr. Senthil, while speaking to IANS said, "These complaints come under misconduct and are gross violations of TN Medical Council code of ethics (professional etiquettes and ethics)".

In a major milestone for  medical education in Manipur and North-East India, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has given its nod for setting up the  first private medical college in Imphal. The college has received permission from NMC for admitting

A team of researchers conducted a study to measure the association between a number of infections and the use of antibiotics during childhood with the development of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Read more at https://medicaldialogues.in/mdtv

An observational study by Aravind Ponnuswamy and team revealed that Long-term prophylactic azithromycin showed to have a significant reduction the number of infections and hospitalisations in asthmatic patients. However there was no improvement in the lung function and 5% patients had hearing impairment.