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Your participation at the event was invaluable and shall go a long way in strengthening the movement of quality healthcare and patient safety. We are working on the Haridwar Declaration and shall release it early next month.
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Did we know that doctors are not permitted to open pharmacies at their clinics or even register a pharmacy in their name? Did we know that every pharmacy must have a minimum area requirement as per law ? Read this issue to know more on all these questions.
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“The need of the hour is for India to manufacture medical equipments as part of the ‘Make in India’ programme so that it becomes available to the poorest of people even in remote corners of India.”
Shri Narendra Modi
Hon’ble Prime Minister of India
From left to right…Mr. Anil Khaitan, Chairman, India Pharma Forum (IPF); Smt. Lakshmi Kanta Chawla, Hon’ble Former Health Minister of Punjab ; Dr. Linda M. Distlerath, Interna-tional Alliance Development PSM, Washington DC, USA ; Mr. Wajahat Habibullah, IAS (Retd.) Chairman, PSM India Initiative & Former Secretary to the Government of India ; Mr. Keshav Desiraju, IAS, Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Consumer Affairs ;Dr. V. K. Subburaj, IAS, Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers; Mr. Bejon Misra, Founder Director , PSM India Initiative;
Mrs. Asha Gambhir, Hony. Secretary General, All India Women’s Conference (AIWC) and Ms. Bina Jain, Former President AIWC & Board Member PSM India Initiative
Distinguished delegates at the conference.
200+ Participants representing Patient Groups went back empowered to demand Safe Medicines and Access to Quality Healthcare after attending the 2nd International Conference at Haridwar (Uttrakhand) India from 6-8 November 2014.
The Conference began on 6th November with the 11th Board meeting of PSM India chaired by Shri Wajahat Habibullah.
Nov 7th : The event was inaugurated by the traditional Indian custom of Lamp lighting with the Ganesh Vandana echoing in the background. The inaugural session com-menced with the welcome address by PSM India’s Chairman & former secretary to the Govt. of India , Mr. Wajahat Habibullah IAS.
Patients sue clinics, distributor over falsified spinal implantsUS, Oct 2014: Dozens of people in the US have filed lawsuits against an equipment distributor and several healthcare facilities for using unapproved implants in spinal surgery.
Shasun Chemicals develops new drug for shrinking tumours
Chennai, Nov 2014: The Chennai based CRAMS and API exporting pharmaceutical company, Shasun Chemicals & Drugs Ltd is gearing up to develop a radio activated nanoparticle targeted drug for shrinking tumours, said Dr. S. Abhaya Kumar, CEO and MD of the company.
Essel Propack develops anti-counterfeit & tamper evident packs for ointments and gels
Bengaluru, Nov 2014: Essel Propack is now developing anti-counterfeit and tamper evident packs to identify spurious products for its laminated plastic tubes used to fill ointments and gels. The company is known to have convinced pharma majors globally to opt for its laminated tubes replacing aluminum versions to package ophthalmic and dermatology formulations.
UC San Diego research team develops a system by which automated web crawling programs can identify spam-based sales websites and connect them to large affiliate networks.
A 2014 paper by UC San Diego researchers Matthew Der, Lawrence K. Saul, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker titled “Knock It Off: Profiling the Online Storefronts of Counterfeit Merchan-dise,” describes how network investigation of html tags and other network identifiers made it possible to connect hundreds of thousands of disparate fake online pharmacy websites to the handful of affiliate networks that run them.
As Saul et al explained, they developed an automated system “able to identify the affiliate pro-grams of 180,690 online storefronts.” The authors estimate that it took over 200 man-hours designing and validating the “regular expressions” for all 45 affiliate programs that were the fo-cus of their study.
Comprised of more than 65 non-profit organizations, the Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM) is a public health group committed to the safety of Prescription drugs and protecting consumers against counterfeit, substandard or otherwise unsafe medicines. This time it brings forward alarming news on Black Market Cancer Drug Cases worldwide to alert consumers from falling prey of such medicines.
Frequently Asked Questions Q1. What is meant by disease endemic, epidemic and pandemic?
Answer:
When a disease is prevalent in an area (population) over long periods of time, it is considered to be endemic in that area. For e.g. Chicken pox in school children.
When the prevalence of disease is subject to wide fluctuations in time, it is considered to be epidemic during periods of high prevalence. An epidemic acts as a rapid spread of infectious disease to a large number of persons in a given population within a short period of time. E.g. Measles, plague, yellow-fever, typhoid, small-pox, cholera etc.
A pandemic is an epidemic of infectious disease that has spread through human populations across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or even worldwide. E.g.: Viral haemorrhagic fevers, antibiotic resistance, Swine Flu Virus, Ebola Virus etc.
Q2. What is mortality rate and morbidity rate?
Answer: 1. Mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.
2. Morbidity rate refers to the number of individuals in poor health during a given time period (the prevalence rate) or the number of newly appearing cases of the disease per unit of time (incidence rate) i.e. Morbidity refers to the disease state of an individual, or the incidence of illness in a population.
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