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3-day anti-polio drive from 19th

KARACHI - A three-day polio vaccination drive under the National Anti-Polio Campaign would commence from December 19.
This was decided at a Sindh Health Department meeting on Saturday, presided over by Adviser to the Prime Minister on Polio Eradication Begum Shahnaz Wazir. Sindh Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed and Chief Secretary Raja Muhammad Abbas also attended the meeting.
Expressing concern over the rise in polio cases in Pakistan, the adviser stressed the need to take every possible step to make the anti-polio campaign a success. “The administration and Sindh Health Department officials have to make coordinated efforts for resolving the problem and make the anti-polio drive a success,” she added.
Emphasising on essential steps to be taken to help save children from polio, the provincial health minister said that during the campaign starting from December 19, around 6.5 million children in Sindh would be administered polio vaccine drops.
Shedding light on the collaborative steps taken by federal and provincial governments, institutions and welfare organisations for the eradication of polio, the Sindh chief secretary said that all measures should be taken to make Sindh polio-free.

KC celebrates Nutrition Awareness Day

LAHORE - The Kinnaird College Food and Nutrition Club organised the first ‘Nutrition Awareness Day’ on Monday at the college premises. The day was celebrated to promote healthy and nutritious eating habits among the youth, with the themes “the best wealth is health” and “our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food”.
Several stalls were set up, including the “Food Expo Corner” where home-made food items were presented by the students, bone density determination and toss down. Other stalls included the free nutrition assessment determination in which Body Mass Index (BMI) was determined. Free diet counselling of the students as well as the faculty was also done and diet plans were given away. A cooking contest was also held on the occasion.

Health experts call for advocacy efforts on mental health

Islamabad—Health experts have stressed the need to step up advocacy efforts on by launching anti-stigma activities and  for affected people.

Addressing a seminar held here on mental health, they said that the barriers to effective care included the lack of resources, lack of trained providers, and the social stigma associated with including depression.

They said that the depression is a common  that presents with depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth,  sleep or appetite, low energy, and poor concentration. They said these problems can become chronic or recurrent and lead to substantial impairments in an individual’s ability to take care of his or her everyday responsibilities, at its worst, depression can lead to suicide, a tragic fatality associated with the loss of several lives every year.

According to them, depression is the leading cause of disability and the leading  to the global burden of disease which occurs in persons of all genders and ages.

They claimed that the depression is common, affecting about 121 million people worldwide. They said that the depression can be reliably diagnosed and treated in primary care, however only 25 percent of affected have access to effective treatments.

They said most health workers are not conversant with modern methods of treatment of and often do not possess the necessary skills to deal with it. Among them there are many who believe that the only way of withmental illness is long term  care, they.

They said that in the majority of countries, including developed ones, there is no parity of care for mental and physical illnesses, adding, stigma of mental illness gains strength from these misconceptions and reinforces them.

Vitamin B can fight memory loss, help protect against Alzheimer’s

ISLAMABAD: A daily dose of vitamin B can dramatically combat memory loss in old age and even protect against Alzheimer’s, a study has found.

People taking the pill had lower levels of a brain protein known to lead to a rise in the risk of dementia. Researchers found it also slowed mental decline in older people who have slight problems with their memory.

More than 800,000 people in Britain suffer from dementia and the number is forecast to double within a generation, but previous drug trials have been unsuccessful.

Around a sixth of people over 70 are thought to suffer from mild cognitive impairment and about half develop dementia, usually within five years of diagnosis.

The research suggested dementia could be treated with a food supplement rather than by taking complicated medicines.

More than 250 people took part in the study, at Oxford University, including people with mild cognitive impairment who were aged 70 years or older.

They were given vitamin B - found naturally in food such as beans, meat, wholegrains and bananas - or a placebo over a two-year period.

Taking the food supplement appeared to help maintain mental processes, such as planning, organising and recalling information.

An earlier study showed B vitamins slowed the rate of brain shrinkage compared with a group receiving a placebo.

Dr Carrie Ruxton of the Health Supplements Information Service told the Daily Express: ’The findings from these two reports should be of interest to clinicians.’

Breakthrough could transform cancer treatment

Washington - US researchers said on Monday they have discovered how to keep tumour cells alive in a lab, generating buzz in the scientific community about a potential breakthrough that could transform cancer treatment.

Until now, scientists have been unable to make cancer cells thrive for very long, or in a condition that resembles the way they act in the body. Doctors diagnose and recommend treatment largely based on biopsied tissue that is frozen or set in wax.

The advance has sparked new hope that someday doctors may be able to test a host of cancer-killing drugs on a person's own tumour cells in the lab, before returning to the patient with a therapy that is a proven to be a good match.

“This would really be the ultimate in personalised medicine,” said lead author Richard Schlegel, chairman of the department of pathology at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Centre.

“The therapies would be exactly from their tissues. We would get normal tissue and tumour tissue from a particular patient and specifically match up their therapies,” he told AFP.

“We are really excited about the possibilities of testing we can do with this.”

The method, described in the online edition of the American Journal of Pathology, borrows from a simple method used in stem cell research, experts said.

Lung, breast, prostate and colon cancers were kept alive for up to two years using the technique, which combines fibroblast feeder cells to keep cells alive and a Rho kinase (ROCK) inhibitor that allows them to reproduce.

When treated with the duo, both cancer and normal cells reverted to a “stem-like state,” Schlegel said, allowing researchers to compare the living cells directly for the first time.

If other scientists can replicate the technique - and three labs in the United States are already working on it Ä the advance could herald a long-awaited transformation in the way cancer cells are studied.

“A tumour from one patient is different from a cancer from another patient, and really that is one important reason why so many clinical trials fail,” said Marc Symons, investigator at the Centre for Oncology and Cell Biology at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, New York.

“I think it is fair to say this revolutionises the way we think of cancer treatment,” added Symons, who was not involved in the study.

Cancer is the leading cause of death in the world, killing 7.6 million people in 2008, according to the latest data from the World Health Organisation. - Sapa-AFP