WHO GUIDELINES EVIDENCE PROFILES • Tobacco cessation • Weight management • Substance use disorders • Cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular risk • Diabetes mellitus • HIV/AIDS • Other infectious diseases (Tuberculosis, Hepatitis A/B) EVIDENCE PROFILE TOBACCO CESSATION PICO QUESTION: For people with severe mental disorder (SMD) who use tobacco, are pharmacological (including nicotine replacement therapy, bupropion, […]
WHO GUIDELINES      i RISK REDUCTION OF COGNITIVE DECLINE AND DEMENTIA WHO GUIDELINES Risk reduction of cognitive decline and dementia: WHO guidelines ISBN 978-92-4-155054-3 © World Health Organization 2019 Some rights reserved. This work is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo). Under the […]
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*What is rapid cycling?* Rapid cycling is a stage in bipolar disorder, not a different type of bipolar disorder. It is defined as having four or more episodes (mania, hypomania, depression) in a 12 month period. A person can have four or more episodes in many different ways. For example: 1. Four or more separate […]
I personally know an IAS officer , a Joint Secretary in Ministry of Finance , who was also in PMO serving under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. I am sharing my thoughts, so that it can motivate all the aspirants, because he has been the source of inspiration ,which induced me to pursue civil services. I […]
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  Edited by Bernard Coope, MBChB, MMedSci, MRCPsych Associate Medical Director, Consultant Older Adult Psychiatrist Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust Felicity A. Richards, MBChB, MRCPsych,DGM Consultant Older Adult Psychiatrist Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust  This edition first published 2014 © 2014 by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. BMJ Books is an […]
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NCCN: Cancer and COVID-19 Vaccination Version 1.0 1/22/2021 Preliminary Recommendations of the NCCN COVID-19 Vaccination Advisory Committee* Patients with cancer should be prioritized for vaccination (CDC priority group 1b/c) and should be immunized when vaccination is available to them. Immunization is recommended for all patients receiving active therapy, with the understanding that there […]
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Summary of Dr Gangakhedkar’s(ICMR) lecture: About 22-23% of population has developed immunity in India so far. Safe herd immunity is 58-74%, which will take 5-6 years for the whole world. No Covid mutants in India because of short survival time of the morbid patients( not enough time for the virus for mutation). Nobody globally received […]
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[Downloaded free from http://www.ijri.org on Sunday, January 24, 2021, IP: 49.207.129.185] Rochita V Ramanan, Anagha R Joshi1, Akash Venkataramanan2, Senthur P Nambi3, Rashmi Badhe4 Departments of Radiology and 3Infectious Diseases, Apollo Hospitals Chennai, 2Intern, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 1Department of Radiology, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, 4Department of Radiology, […]
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IMAGE COPYRIGHT REUTERS / GETTY IMAGES Lisa Montgomery – the only female inmate on federal death row in the US – has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. Her victim’s community said otherwise. This story was first […]
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The factsheet details information that would enable recipients to understand the benefits and common side-effects of the Covishield vaccine, to prevent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2.   DOSE: The Covishield vaccination course consists of two separate doses of 0.5 ml each. The second dose should be administered between four […]
  The book “Handbook on Consultation Liaison Psychiatry” is a relevant read for today’s doctors of any discipline. Many medical illnesses are related to psychiatric disorders. Also, behavioural issues in patients presenting with medical illnesses can offer challenges in treatment. Thus, clinicians from any specialty are likely to encounter patients with psychological issues in […]
Indian Academy of Pediatrics ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON VACCINES AND IMMUNIZATION PRACTICES Guidance on Covid-19 vaccines: FAQs on Covid-19 vaccines for Pediatricians Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is an infectious disease caused by the newly discovered coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), which has spread rapidly throughout the world. In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID- 19 outbreak […]
WHO recently published guidelines on treating and managing diabetes in low resource settings. Here we bring to you a commentary from Padma Shri Dr. V Mohan, an eminent Indian Diabetologist, who shares his views and opinions on the new guidelines. I have gone through the new World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines for diabetes management in […]
Hi, I am currently a faculty of Psychiatry and I went to the US in 2010, after taking Step 1, did 6 months of electives over there, cleared CS examination, and then came back to India, studied for PG entrance examination, and stayed back. I did MBBS from UCMS, Delhi and we had a pretty […]
1. Which psychiatric medications can cause hyponatremia? Oxcarbazepine, carbamazepine, and serotonergic antidepressants are the psychotropic medications most commonly associated with hyponatremia due to syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH). Several other medications may also be associated with hyponatremia at times, including other antiepileptics like valproate (Beers et al., 2010) and even lamotrigine (Lu and […]
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