Recent advances in community medicine

• Amazon Price: $80. • Points to Download: 100 Points • Format: True PDF. • File Size: 58.8 MB. • Download Link Below. Author/Editor Suryakantha AH ISBN 9789385999963 Speciality Community Medicine DOI 10.5005/jp/books/12912 Edition 4/e Publishing Year 2017 Pages 1061 Book Type Textbook Download Link: This post contains protected content. You must be logged in and have 100 points to unlock it. Description: This book deals with the “Community Medicine with Recent Advances”. This book is the end result of teaching community medicine to undergraduate and postgraduate students for more than three decades. Though the book is written primarily for undergraduates, it would also be useful for postgraduate students of community medicine. The book “Community Medicine with Recent Advances” is student-friendly because it is written in an understandable way, covering the entire syllabus prescribed by the Medical Council of India (MCI), including the recent advances. The matter is presented in such a way as to avoid confusion and to make the reading of the book a pleasurable experience. Topics like biostatistics would encourage the students to take up the research activities. The lucid language of the book would facilitate quick revision. The book “Community Medicine with Recent Advances” is teacher-friendly because they may appreciate the presentation of the subject matter exhaustively and clearly, having tentacles attached to various other branches of medicine such as obstetrics, pedia...

COVID-19 has been all-consuming. For nearly two years, the world has been focused on the race for vaccines, the pressures on providers, the best testing protocols, and simply staying safe. COVID-19 also slowed some research efforts, but scientists still managed to seek solutions for many other pressing concerns — Alzheimer’s disease, maternal mortality, and prostate cancer among them — that have bedeviled patients for decades. Below are eight medical advances that may not have grabbed your attention but could ultimately improve the lives of millions. Rolling MRIs into hospital rooms A portable MRI machine Photo by Anna Crawford Assessing a stroke demands a rapid, life-or-death assessment: Is the culprit a clot, which requires a blood thinner, or bleeding in the brain, which requires surgery? Now, a portable MRI device can help make that assessment right at a patient’s bedside — The Swoop MRI — which was created with input from Yale Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut — received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in August 2020 and is already at work in several U.S. hospitals. The new portable machine offers many advantages over its massive cousin, says Yale neurologist Kevin Sheth, MD. “The very strong magnets in regular MRIs bring a lot of challenges,” he explains. “You need intensive power and cooling, precautions like a shielded room, and a lot of training. If you use a weaker magnet, all those problems go away.” The weaker magnet is effective, according to Swoo...

Product Full Description Suryakantha community medicine 6th edition was published in 2017 by Jaypee Brothers Medical Publisher. written by A.H. Suryakantha The book is thoroughly revised and updated with the recent advances in the medical field. Salient Features of Suryakantha community medicine 6th edition: The major chapters include- • The book contains chapters on Communicable diseases, also has the revised case definitions of tuberculosis and its effective treatment; advantages of directly observed treatment short-course (DOTS); Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP) laboratory network; antiretroviral treatment in HIV; global multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB); epidemiology of hepatitis C; diagnosis and treatment of malaria; malaria control strategies; malaria vaccines, and many more important topics. • There are Chapters on Preventive Obstetrics and Pediatrics, and the revised version has some guidelines on antenatal care in community medicine with recent advances. In addition, the National Health Mission includes all its components like Reproduction, Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Adolescent (RMNCH+A) strategy India, New-born Action Plan, Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram, Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram, etc. Other minor topics in community medicine with recent advances include- • National Family Planning Indemnity Scheme and Preconception and Prenatal Diagnostic Technique Act, 1994. • A detailed description o...