VAICON 2013 – Jan 2013, Goa

The Arab Health medical exhibition was held in Dubai from 27th to 30th Jan 2014. Dynamic Techno Medicals’ stall was in the new Zabeel 4 hall. From its beginnings in 1975, the show has become a lare and extremely important forum for medical device manufacturers and customers.  This year, there were almost 4000 stalls and more…

We participated in the Vascular Society of India Conference (VSICON) at Kodaikanal. The conference Organizing Secretary was Dr S. Jeyakumar.

In Sept 2013, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the United States issued what was seen as the first time hard-data was made available on the problem of antibiotic resistance. The report estimates that 2 million Americans are infected each year by antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains and lead to 23,000 deaths per annum….

“Missing Microbes – How Antibiotics can do Harm” – by Dr. Martin J. Blaser – published March 2014 Dr Blaser is a professor of medicine and infectious diseases at New York University. Some points from the book – 1. Increasing resistance due to rampant abuse of antibiotics 2. Benevolent bacteria are killed as well by…

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…