Symposium on “XDR TB”

Dear All,
You would be pleased to know that Ranbaxy Science Foundation would hold a one day symposium on “XDR TB” in India Habitat centre on 13th December 2008. Should you have data on XDR TB and especially if you have the strain/s with you, please do get in touch with me ASAP.
Dr. Ashok Rattan,
Director, SRL Clinical Reference Laboratory, Gurgaon & SRL Laboratories in Delhi & NCR, SRL Ranbaxy

Dr R A Bhujwala award for best work on Sexually Transmitted Diseases

In order to encourage members of Delhi Chapter of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists, former colleagues and students of Dr R A Bhujwala have instituted a cash award (from interest generated from the sum kept in fixed deposit). This award will be awarded by a jury consisting of the following members:
1. President of Delhi Chapter of IAMM
2. Secretary of Delhi Chapter of IAMM
3. Dr RA Bhujwala or her nominee
The jury will consider all papers and presentation brought to its notice by any member of Delhi Chapter of IAMM wherein the presentation or paper deals with any aspect of STD by a member of Delhi Chapter of IAMM. The jury will consider all presentation and papers in a calendar year, the meeting of the jury would ideally be made in January or February of any year. The award will be presented in the first quarter meeting of the subsequent year to the year for which the presentation is being made.
The recipient of the award will be a member of Delhi Chapter of IAMM. Age will not be a bar for recognition of good work. The award will consist of a certificate and cash accrued from interest on the fixed deposit of the principal.
(Information supplied by Dr. Ashok Rattan, Director, SRL Clinical Reference Laboratory, Gurgaon & SRL Laboratories in Delhi & NCR, SRL Ranbaxy)

Simple Wisdom

• Usual areas of misuse of antibiotics are common cold, sore throat and diarrhoea. Washing hands with soap and water or even just with water as often as required can help reduce the problem of such infections.
• To prevent sexually transmitted infections always use condoms.
• The more you use antibiotics, the less effective it becomes.
• When mothers are on high doses of antibiotics, they pass on the resistance to their children too.
• Self medication in all likelihood will lead to prescription of a higher dose of antibiotics next time.
• A medicine prescribed for one person’s condition may not work for another person’s or for the same person the second time.
• The reason for more and more peopledeveloping resistance to commonly-used antibiotics lies in the indiscriminate use of antibiotics.
• pets can harbour and convey MRSA to their owners
• Establishing infection control committees in hospitals will lead to substantial reduction in antibiotic resistance.