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In an attempt to fight the menace of Swine Flu, an anti-swine flu drug Tamil flu is being launched by the Govt of India in the licenced shops across the country.

The launch of the drug came at a time when the deadly virus has claimed 257 lives and affected 8,153 people in the country.

The drug is sold under the trade name Tamiflu and is taken orally in capsules or a drink.

The ministry of health and family welfare issued a notification on Tuesday allowing “restricted sale” of tamiflu (Oselatamivir) the only available drugs that are used for the treatment of Swine Flu.

Taking into account the current spread of the Influenza A(H1N1) in the country, the health ministry decided that retail sale of tamiflu should be allowed in the country but in a regulated manner.

The retail sale of tamiflu was banned by the central government and its distribution was permissible only through public health institutions.

A 10-tablet strip of tamiflu costs Rs.280.

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The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark index Sensex on Monday rose 87 points on funds buying in blue-chip counters led by banks and PSUs.

The Sensex after a weak start, bounced back to close higher by 86.75 at 17,641.08 after hitting a high of 17,712.60 and a low of 17,505.50 during the session.

The largest software major TCS surged to all-time high of 816.40 in early trade after it beat street expectation on Friday with an over 33 per cent jump in profit.

The stock closed at Rs 799.60.

The third-biggest lender HDFC Bank climbed Rs 76.55 to Rs 1,767.55, after Morgan Stanley upgraded it to “overweight” from “equal-weight,” saying lower credit-cost estimates are boosting earnings forecasts.

The National Stock Exchange index Nifty 50 rose by 22.65 to 5,274.85, after moving between 5,292.50 and 5,228.95.

Even as the stock markets in Asia remained weak, a better opening in Europe pushed the local markets in the last hour of trade.

Among the 30 Sensex counters, 19 gained while other 11 ended with losses.

The bank and finance company stocks gained the most with the banking index rising 2.41 per cent on expectations of better third quarter earnings.

The second biggest gainer was PSU index with a 1.91 per cent jump.

The auto index rose by 1.70 per cent, consumer durables by 1.37 per cent, IT index by 0.59 per cent, and Tech index by 0.59 per cent to 3,418.11.

However, the upsurge was checked as stocks in healthcare, oil and gas, metal and power sectors closed with losses.

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The harmful use of cell phones is considered to be the debate that continues up till present days. It was decided by San Francisco department of Environment to address the health issue within a hair’s breadth. They are going to assert the indication of radiation level of a cell phone next to its price tag. But still no research was presented in order to prove that that there is negative effect of cell phones on humans. Moreover, the bill is approved and is supported by San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Despite the fact that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reassured that all mobile phones are safe for usage. The FCC developed ways to ensure safety of its citizens by accepting limits for safe exposure radiation that are estimated in terms of the unit, Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) that shows the amount of radio frequency trapped out by a person’s tissue brains during phone usage.

It is ensured by the FCC, all mobile manufacturers keep the limit of 1.6 Watts per kilogram of body tissue that is considered to be legal in the USA. But still there are phone that have SAR more than 0.2 per Kilograms.

It will be obligatory for all retailers to publish the SAR value, moreover it is necessary to explain the meaning of these SAR values. The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association do not agree that mobile phones influence negatively on humans

New Delhi: Deadly virus Swine flu has at last gripped team India. After S Sreesanth it was mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton, who underwent for the H1N1 virus but was tested negative.

Other members of the team including Gautam Gambhir, Team Manager Mayank Parekh and the Video Analyst of the team, who also had flu-like symptoms gone through the lab test, but were later tested negative.

Earliar it was pacer S Sreesanth to test positive for swine flu and missed India’s second Twenty20 match against the Lankans in Mohali on December 12. He however has been discharged from the hospital after complete recovery.

The team yesterday arrived to Nagpur for the second ODI against Sri Lanka to be played on Friday.

Bangalore: With two more positive cases of swine flu the total number of effected turns to 1590 and the death cases registered due to the pandemic raises to 122 after the death of a woman in the city.

According to the reports, the lady,36, who died on the next day after she got admitted to a private hospital,was said to have other health related problems.

Though according to the health officials the death cases registered due to the flu were mostly suffering from other health related issue along with the flu.

They further eased the public fear about the virus and said, “If the infection is due to the virus only it can be very much treated.”

London: According to the U.S.-based Measles Initiative about 164,000 died from measles in 2008 down from 733,000 in 2000. Global deaths from measles fell by 78 percent between 2000 and 2008 thanks largely to mass childhood vaccination campaigns.

Parents’ refusal to have their children vaccinated because of fears of links to autism caused a rise in measles cases in the United States and parts of Europe in recent years. Many studies have debunked the notion vaccines can cause autism.

“Three out of four children who died from measles in 2008 were in India,” UNICEF’s executive director Ann Veneman said in a statement. She added India’s plan to scale up its measles vaccination campaign was “encouraging.”

The Measles Initiative warned it faced a funding gap of $59 million for 2010 which could allow a resurgence in measles deaths. “The combined effect of decreased political and financial commitment could result in an estimated 1.7 million measles-related deaths between 2010-13,” it said.

Thomas Frieden, director of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that while global progress had been impressive, more than 400 children, mainly in poor nations, were dying every day from “completely preventable infection.”

It is scheduled to release the application with the help of which it is possible to screen children that have poor health condition.

At present India suffers from the third epidemic of RoP after US in the 1950s and 70s. About 27 million babies born with weight less than 2kg that leads to the horrible condition. The RoP influences negatively on the retinas of babies that can be the reason of permanent blindness. In order to prevent this, one should screen during the first 3-4 weeks of childbirth.

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The Bangalore-headquartered institute decided to guide pilot projects in six regions such as Bangalore Urban, Rural, Mandya, Tumkur, Bidar, Gulbarga. As a result the doctors screened 1,600 infants and cured about 1,600 infants inclined to RoP.

Narayana Nethralaya also applied for i2i TeleSolutions in order it will be possible to have efficient software to operate the application on i-Phone.

During the live diagnose, a RedCam helps the doctor. The camera features a 130 degree field of view. The work of camera is explained in the following: it makes snap-shots of child’s retinal condition. The image it transmitted via the Internet in an encrypted format.

The Karnataka government is working on getting two RedCams that are priced Rs1 crore and laser equipment of Rs20 lakh in order National Rural Health Mission (NHRM) could conduct the program.

It became known that when a person uses his cell phone, it evokes some kind of biological effect in the brain.

Such research was conducted by Sweden’s Orebro University. But the thing is that it is still unknown whether the effect is good, bad, or indifferent.

It was discovered that there is a kind of connection between cell phone use and a big amount of a protein known as transthyretin in the blood.

Transthyretin is connected with the fluid that protects the brain. It means that one should not worry about an increase in transthyretin.

But the research showed that those children and teenagers that use constantly cell phones are more likely to have health problems, i.e. headaches and weaken concentration.

According to Fredrik Soderqvist, a researcher, it is still difficult to explain the full connection of the brain and a cell phone as headaches, asthmatic complaints and weaken concentration can be the cause of other factors.

But still the concern arises regarding the effect of cell phone on general heath.

According to the studies of World Health Organization cell phones influence negatively on the brain, i.e. they are considered to be the cause of brain tumours.

With over 50 million Indians suffering from diabetes, the disease is a looming epidemic which will go out of control any time unless both patients and care providers take preventive measures, warn health experts on the eve of World Diabetes Day.

“India leads the world in the number of people suffering from diabetes and by 2030, nearly 9 per cent of the country’s population is likely to be affected from the disease,” said Dr Anoop Mishra, director of the department of diabetes and metabolic diseases at Fortis Hospitals.

“The most disturbing fact is that more and more children and youngsters are getting affected to the disease due to changing lifestyle, junk food, less physical work and stress,” Misra said.

Describing the impact of work-related stress on diabetics, chairman of Dr A Ramachandran’s Diabetes Hospitals in Chennai, A Ramachandran said, “Few days ago a businessman came to my clinic whose sugar level was nearly 600 mg/dl and after inquiry we found that he had been under a lot of stress recently as he had lost money in the stock market”.

“The 35-year-old businessman’s sugar level decreased drastically as soon as the stock market rebounded,” he said, cautioning “stress can cause or worsen many diseases and diabetes is one of them”.

“The treatment of diabetes and its associated complications is expensive since it is a chronic condition.

“And as the cost burden imposed by the disease is not only on the patients and his family but also on society as a whole so there is a need to spread awareness about preventive care,” Dr Anoop said.

Ramachandran also felt that “simple measures like daily and regular physical activity, maintaining optimum weight and cutting off extra calories with increased consumption of green vegetables and fruits are likely be potentially beneficial in preventing diabetes”.

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With 39 more people testing positive for dengue on Friday, the total number of those suffering from the vector-borne disease in the national capital this season shot up to 749.

The civic authorities said they have intensified the drive to check breeding of mosquitoes and challaned more than 6,500 people so far.

“With 39 new cases of dengue, the total number has reached 749. There are 11 cases in which the infection has been contracted from outside the city,” Municipal Health Officer, MCD, N K Yadav said.

The capital has seen two dengue deaths so far. The Delhi government’s nodal officer on Thursday reported two more deaths, which the MCD has refused to confirm.

“I can only say that they should declare deaths only after knowing the full details,” Yadav said when asked about the two deaths reported on Thursday.

The city had reported more than 160 cases dengue cases in the last four days.

Yadav said areas like Masjid Moth, Sangam Vihar and Gautam Nagar have seen most number of dengue cases.

Last year, 1,070 dengue cases and two deaths were reported in the city.

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