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With holidays over and most of us back on our desk, it’s time to take things a little more seriously now. Hazards in the health sector are innumerable, be it ‘cause of unsafe meds or diagnostic issues. In healthcare, a brand needs to be 100% honest with their customers. While Pharma companies should be pro active towards the quality and replication of their drugs in the market, Diagnostic companies should offer accessible, affordable services while ensuring accuracy. What is worse is that the curse of wrong diagnosis is very difficult to break. Incorrect diagnosis will lead to inaccurate treatment, resulting in prolonged treatment, leading to complications due to wrong medicines, and the burden of unwanted expenses. In this issue of PSM India Capsules we throw some light on how to find the right diagnosis for you.
There comes some good news from the government in the first month of this year. To ensure better systems and frameworks for the healthcare workforce in the country the Ministry has launched the Allied and Healthcare Professionals’ database portal. In Drug laws and Policy Injections, read more on this and also on inspections of drug testing labs in our country commencing after over a decade.
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Pooja Khaitan
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“National Health Policy" marks a historic moment in our endeavour to create a healthy India where everyone has access to quality healthcare.”
Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi
Are You Being Diagnosed Correctly?
When it comes to medical care, no one wants to compromise. Everyone wants to avail the best possible facilities as per their capacity. But in an era where medical expenses and complications are mounting with each passing day and news of malpractices by even the best names in the industry have become an almost daily affair, the customer should be aware of the various possibilities of malpractices in the diagnostic process also. After all, correct diagnosis is the first step towards correct treatment.
In healthcare, a brand needs to be 100% honest with their customers. Diagnostic companies should offer accessible, affordable services while ensuring accuracy. What is worse is that the curse of wrong diagnosis is very difficult to break. Incorrect diagnosis will lead to inaccurate treatment, resulting in prolonged treatment, leading to complications due to wrong medicines, and the burden of unwanted expenses.
US FDA Issues Draft Guidance For Industry, Good ANDA Submission Practices, And Companion MAPP, Good ANDA Assessment Practices
Maryland, Jan 2018: Today, the FDA issued the draft guidance for industry “Good ANDA Submission Practices,” which highlights common, recurring deficiencies in abbreviated new drug applications (ANDAs) that may lead to a delay in the approval of an ANDA.
3 held for importing, marketing fake drugs
Bangladesh: Members of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested three persons for their alleged involvement with importing fake cancer-fighting medicines from China and marketing those in the country, reports BSS. “We arrested Ruhul Amin alias Dulal Chowdhury, 46, Nikhil Raj Bongshi, 44, and Sayeed and recovered around 21,000 strips of fake medicine including medicine MT-X, Clomid and Revocon.
U.S. Postal Inspectors Are On The Front Line In The Fight To Keep Fentanyl Out Of The Country
According to the Washington Post, U.S. Postal Inspectors are increasingly finding themselves on the front line in the fight to keep fentanyl out of the country. When South Dakota resident Trevor Harden ordered thousands of fentanyl pills off the internet, a package containing part of his shipment caught the eye of postal inspectors in Rapid City, South Dakota. Authorities were alerted and were waiting when Harden picked up his package.
Report: Counterfeit Medications Containing Deadly Fentanyl Have Been Found In 40 States
WASHINGTON (BUSINESS WIRE): A newly-released report on counterfeit medicines is placing the spotlight on a problem that may be far worse than is commonly believed. According to the review conducted by The Partnership for Safe Medicines, counterfeit prescription drugs containing the deadly ingredient fentanyl, most often illegally imported, have been found in as many as 40 states and are tied to deaths in more than a dozen states.
Frequently Asked Questions Q1. What is Family Medicine?
Answer: Family medicine (FM), formerly family practice (FP), is a specialty devoted to comprehensive health care for people of all ages; the specialist is named a family physician or family doctor. In Europe the discipline is often referred to as general practice and a practitioner as a General Practice Doctor or GP; this name emphasises the holistic nature of this speciality, as well as its roots in the family. Family practice is a division of primary care that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body;family physicians are often primary care physicians. It is based on knowledge of the patient in the context of the family and the community, emphasizing disease prevention and health promotion.According to the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA), the aim of family medicine is to provide personal, comprehensive, and continuing care for the individual in the context of the family and the community. The issues of values underlying this practice are usually known as primary care ethics.
Q2.What makes family medicine unique?
Answer: Family medicine's cornerstone is an ongoing, personal patient–physician relationship. Whereas other specialties are limited to a particular organ system, technology, disease, age, or sex, family medicine integrates care for each person. Family physicians' unique contributions to health care access stem from the breadth of their training and adaptability of their work, combined with a sense of social responsibility.
Patients value a physician who listens to them, who takes time to explain things to them, and who is able to effectively coordinate and integrate their care.4 Since its inception, family medicine has been grounded in the core values of a continuing relationship between patient and physician, and the provision of comprehensive care that includes prevention, acute intervention, chronic disease management, end-of-life care, and coordination of care throughout the health care delivery system
There Can't Be Different Standards For Private and Government Hospitals
Article contributed by an Aware homemaker: Ms. Sushila Bajpai from Madhya Pradesh
The Delhi High Court on 4th January 2018 said the Centre and the AAP government cannot have different standards for private hospitals and those run by them as far as instances of medical negligence are concerned. The observation by Justice Vibhu Bakhru came during the hearing of a plea alleging medical negligence by Safdarjung Hospital in wrongly declaring a newborn as dead in June 2017.
Dr. Naresh Kumar, Research Scholar: PSM India is at all times trying to keep us up-to-date with the latest medication news, fake drug news and approvals which is indeed praiseworthy!
Dr. S. Chakravarty, Principal of a reputed Pharma and allied Health Sciences Institution: My earnest gratitude and applauds to PSM-India for the continuous action they have taken in fighting menace of unsafe medicines and their advocacy in assuring universal healthcare for all in India!
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