VAICON 2013 – Jan 2013, Goa

In August 2012 at the Clinical Infectious Diseases Society conference in Chennai, a road-map was laid out to tackle the problem of increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. This is popularly known as the Chennai Declaration. It envisages that within 5 years, 90% of all antibiotics should be included in Schedule H1 and be sold…

Drug resistance, especially to antibiotics, is becoming a serious problem for public health policy makers the world over, both in developed as well as developing countries. Common causes of increasing antibiotic resistance are: 1. Self-medication by patients for a variety of common diseases 2. Using antibiotics as a first line of defence, instead of as…

Dynamic Techno Medicals’ brand Comprezon was a leading participant in the 19th Annual Conference of the Vascular Society of India (VSICON) at Jaipur from Sept 26 – 29th. Dr V S Bedi was the Organizing Secretary. Dr Bedi spoke of the need to increase the number of vascular surgeons in the country. Currently, only about…

  Antibiotic introduced in year First resistant bacterial strain found in Penicillin introduced in 1940 Penicillin-resistant staph – 1940 Tetracycline introduced in 1950 Tetracycline-resistant shigella 1959 Erythromycin introduced in 1953 Erythromycin-resistant strep – 1968 Methicillin introduced in 1960 Methicillin-resistant staph aureus (MRSA) – 1962 Levofloxacin – 1996 Resistant bacteria emerged in – 1996 Linezolid –…

The  Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University in Boston, US announced the discovery of Teixobactin, the first new class of antibiotics in nearly 30 years.  The discovery is a breakthrough because bacteria are increasingly becoming resistant to existing antibiotics. The rampant misuse and overuse of antibiotics has been blamed for this increasing bacterial resistance. Also, pharmaceutical companies had…

Our brand Easyfix celebrates 10 years. Like Xerox and Velcro, Easyfix has become synonymous with the entire cannula fixator category in India, and the brand that all others try to emulate. We look forward to another 10 years of growth and market leadership by Easyfix.