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in India on WHO osteoporosis check list New Delhi, October 11 They also discussed the recent developments and new techniques in osteoporosis treatment in India. Current WHO figures estimate that over 270 million people are likely to suffer osteoporosis by the year 2020 in India and China alone.
Osteoporotic fractures occur on an average 10-20 years earlier in Indians as compared to their western counterparts. The main factors behind this high incidence rate of the disease are poverty, poor nutrition and imbalanced diet, especially lacking in calcium, ignorance, sedentary lifestyles etc. In addition, people from financially challenged backgrounds often visit quacks, who prescribe drugs like steroids which also are a factor causing osteoporosis. Speaking on this occasion, Dr Ambrish Mittal, endocrinologist and member, WHO Global Task Force on Osteoporosis, said, “There is an urgent need to educate the masses about the importance of a balanced and nutritious diet, which alone can prevent this disease. There are a lot of myths and fallacies surrounding this disease like effect of coals and carbonated drinks on bones, which need to be cleared, and this event provides an ideal platform to address this matter.” Though there is increasing awareness about the prevalence and affects of this disease, still a lot of efforts need to be made in this direction. Government support and increased participation of the medical and the NGO fraternity can help combat this disease along with newly developed medical techniques. “The incidences of osteoporosis in India are on the rise, and is not limited to women alone. But there is no cause for panic, one can live a normal active life with osteoporosis provided one takes proper diet with adequate calcium and vitamin D,” said Dr Yash Gulati, senior orthopaedic Surgeon, Apollo Hospital, Delhi. According to statistics, one in four women and one in eight men over the age of 50 in India has osteoporosis. But the disease can strike at any age. More women die each year as a result of osteoporotic fractures than from breast and ovarian cancer combined. A fifty-year-old woman has at least a 40 per cent risk of an osteoporotic fracture during the remainder of her life. Up to 20 per cent of individuals who fracture a hip, die as a result of complications. Fifty per cent of those who survive remain permanently disabled. |
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BODY&MIND Nearly 54 per cent of schoolchildren across the country are not even aware that they need vision correction, according to the findings of a survey, reported by Bausch & Lomb, global eyecare company and Vision Improvement Experts Working Council (VIEW), a non-government organisation. The figures were released a day before the World Sight Day (October 8) from data compiled during a year-long School Vision Screening programme, which covered 1.3 lakh school students in 11 cities. The vision screening programme covering 19,935 students in 54 schools of Delhi and Faridabad, showed that only 58 per cent students are aware of their vision defects. The study showed that Mumbai students were most aware of vision defects compared to their counterparts in 10 other cities. While 70 per cent students in Mumbai were aware of their vision defects, only 39 per cent students had any awareness of vision problems in Ahmedabad. Prominent among the Delhi schools represented in the sample for the vision screening programme between July ‘02 and April ‘03 were Amity, Green Fields, Appejay, Kulachi Hansraj, Loreto Convent and DAV School, Faridabad. The 11 cities covered in the study were Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Pune and Surat. The startling data is recorded in the third edition of the annual Youth Vision India report of Bausch and Lomb and VIEW. The data is certainly a cause of concern as India is home to over 25 per cent of visually disabled the world over. Vision defects are one of the leading causes of avoidable blindness in the country. A parallel study commissioned by Baush & Lomb and conducted by AC Nielsen for the general population in the same cities showed an improvement in the level of awareness about vision awareness. Field investigators reported that such awareness had increased among women and middle class families. But, only 31 per cent of the respondents had visited an eyecare specialist in the last six months. The figures from Delhi were somewhat encouraging, as the 43 per cent of the respondents had visited their eyecare specialist in the last six months. VIEW was set up in 2000, as a body of 14 well-known eyecare specialists, who decided to work together to raise the level of eyecare awareness across the country. It has conducted a number of campaigns in various parts of the country. Cervical cancer is most common:
The initiative is prompted by alarming statistics about the incidence of cancer of the cervix. According to ICS, cervical cancer is the most common cancer in Indian women. Statistics of the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) put Delhi’s burden as 26.6 per 100,000 women. Every 50 woman suffering from cancer of the cervix is an Indian. What is more disturbing is that there is no national screening programme for cervical cancer. According to Mrs Jyotsana Govil, Honorary Joint Secretary, ICS, “Pap Screen, Delhi, fulfils a long standing need felt by women in the national Capital. It is an awareness and screening programme.” ICS recommends the test to all women in the 18 to 70 age group who are or have been sexually active. “The Pap test is not merely a cancer-screening test. It picks up other symptoms, less frightening but equally distressing. The Pap test is required to be taken for three years in succession and every alternate year subsequently,” says Govil. ICS has sought the help of the medical community in the National Capital Region to undertake this programme on a sustained basis. AIDS prevention programme:
Almost a year later, Ashok Alexander, Director of the Foundation’s India AIDS Initiative, is all set to announce names of grantee partner organisations, the states in which the work will begin and the programme mandate awarded to each of the partners. The Director of the India AIDS Initiative will make the announcement on Monday after the first meeting of the board constituted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of its planning for the HIV/AIDS prevention programme in India. The board is co-chaired by Mr J.V.R. Prasada Rao, Secretary, Health, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Mr Rajat Gupta, partner, McKinsey and Company Worldwide. Homeopathic home kit:
The handy kit carrying 15 dilutions, six tablets, three ointments and an ear-drop, can take care of ailments ranging from acidity, acne, bruises, burns/scalds, common cold, cough, constipation, cuts, diarrhoea, ear-ache, flatulence, indigestion, insect bites, muscular cramps, rheumatism, insomnia, tonsillitis, toothache, trauma to travel sickness and vomiting. The kit comes with a free guide, which explains the relevance of each medicine for the disease and the dose. It can be bought over the counter from at least 2,000 homoeopathic pharmacies across the country. Dr Bina Thomas, Head, Research and Development, SBL says that the objective of introducing the kit in the market is to make homeopathy as easily available as other medicines. |
Ganga School to host CBSE North Zone Hockey New Delhi, October 11 Manager of Ganga School Sushil Gupta said the teams will be divided into two groups, and each group will have six matches every day, which will be played on a knock-out basis. The matches will be played on two grounds of the school. Mr Sushil Gupta said hosts Ganga School will take on Modern School, Barakhamba Road in the opening match on October 13. He said most of the leading public schools like Modern, Delhi Public School, DAV, Guru Harkishan, Bal Bharati, Presentation Convent (Jammu), Shah Satnam (Sirsa), Vidya Devi Jindal (Hissar), Sacred Heart (Ludhiana), DAV (Chandigarh) and Guru Nanak Foundation (Patiala) have confirmed their participation. Mr Gupta and principal of Ganga School Mrs H Shrow said hockey Olympian Ashok Kumar will inaugurate the tournament while Deputy Director of Education (West B District, Delhi) Mrs Daljit Kaur will be the chief guest. Mr Pushkar Vohra, OSD (Sports) of CBSE will also be present. During the closing ceremony, Satish Golcha, DCP, West and Sheodeen Singh Yadav, ACP, West will be the guests of honour. Mrs H Sraw said the CBSE Hockey Tournament will be yet another major sports event to be hosted by the Ganga School, which has excellent sporting facilities, spread over 15 acres. She said the school, which has 1500 students on its rolls, some of them from other parts of the country and a few from abroad, also excelled in academics. Director of sports O P Malhotra said Ganga School was in the process of finalising programmes to host major sports tournaments in the coming months. |
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Najafgarh
Club enter Friendship Cup semis New Delhi, October 11 Scores: Najafgarh Club: 226 for 9 in 35 overs (Naveen Gahlot 66, Dheeraj Sharma 41, Jetender Pal 33, Pradeep Shokeen 5 for 54, Pritam Katriya 3 for 49).
Surmount Club: 110 all out in 18 overs (Sandeep 19, Imran Shokeen 4 for 16, Ravinder Parwar 2 for 25, Vishwas Sehrawat 2/0).
Shri Ram Cricket Tourney The second Shri Ram Cricket Challenge will be held from October 13 to 18 in which six teams from Delhi will play on a league basis. The participating schools are: Hosts Shri Ram School, DPS, R K Puram, Mount St. Mary’s School, St. Columba’s School, G D Goenka School and Frank Anthony School.
Mahaveer, Shano best athletes Mahaveer of YMCA and Shano of Asha Kiran were adjudged the best athletes in the New Delhi YMCA Athletics Meet for the physically challenged held at the Nehru Stadium.
Dhani Ram School win Dhani Ram School defeated N K Bargodia, Ranchi 2-1, St. Columba’s beat Cambridge School 9-0, DDA Football Academy beat DPS, Mathura Road 8-0 and Cambridge School got walkover from Frank Anthony School in the Nivia Schools Football Tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium on Saturday. |
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Scott Bayman stars in golf gala New Delhi, October 11 The team of Scott Bayman, Roy K Cherian, Sudhir Aggarwal and S S Duggal tallied 56 points which tied them with the team of Col Kapil Kaul, S Evotury, Sanjiv Khanna and Zafar Ahmad. Gen Bhupinder Singh won the ‘longest drive’ prize while Arun Kumar hit it straightest off the tee to win in that category. |
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Modern to meet DPS in SPV final New Delhi, October 11 Manan Sharma of Modern School and Lohit Choudhary of DPS were given the ‘man of the match’ awards. Scores: Modern School: 141 for 8 in 45 overs (Karan Rai 33, Jagrit Anand 24, Aditya Saini 3 for 36, Vijay Pandit 3 for 44). Frank Anthony:
69 all out in 39 overs (Manan Sharma 4 for 13, Mohit Malhotra 4 for 29). Sardar Patel:
103 all out in 41.5 overs (Abhimanu Lamba 20, Lohit Choudhary 4 for 32, Karandeep 3 for 20). DPS: 105 for 43.5 (Rishab Seth 46 n o, Samarth Saxena 4 for 21, Amitoz Singh 3 for 22). |
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Ankur Buddiraja shines New Delhi, October 11 Scores: Golden Hawks: 210 all out in 44.5 overs (Nakul Chopra 43, Rajender Kumar 37, Vivek Srivastava 37).
Shahdara Sports Club: 166 all out in 40.5 overs (Pranav Mahendra 65, Ankur Buddiraja 4 for 33, Sandeep Yadav 3 for 39). Salwan Boys beat Gush XI by four wickets at the Bharat Nagar ground. Scores: Gush XI:
204 for 8 in 45 overs (Shoaib Prasad 72, Chetan Logani 28 n o, Arun Choudhary 3 for 52). Salwan Boys: 207 for 6 in 44.2 overs (Rajat Gupta 55, Rajeev Sharma 36, Amit Sharma 5 for 57).
Ramjas beat St. Columba’s Ramjas Day-Boarding defeated St. Columba’s School by five wickets in the fourth Parle Inter-School Under-17 Cricket Tournament. Scores: St. Columba’s:
114 for 9 in 35 overs (Vatsal Kumar 31, Anubhav Deewan 3 for 30, Shubhankar Sharma 3 for 20). Ramjas Day-Boarding:
117 for 5 in 33 overs (Anubhav Deewan 58 n o, Mayank Babbar 3 for 9).
AIIMS enter final All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) defeated Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) by six wickets in the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Memorial Cricket Tournament at the Nehru Stadium. Scores: CWC: 166 for 7 in 35 overs (Rajiv Vinayak 34, Sunil Sudan 25, Amrish Gautam 22, Vijay Arya 2 for 15). AIIMS:
167 for 4 in 25 overs (Rajendra Bisht 72 n o, John Anthony 41, Rakesh Kumar 2 for 22).
Inter College draw with St. Annes MKP Inter College, Dehradun (Uttaranchal) drew with St. Annes High School, Pune in the opening match of the 10th Nehru Girls Hockey Tournament at the Shivaji Stadium on Saturday. In an interesting clash, both the teams attacked with vigour, but failed to cash in on their chances into goals. Inter College held the edge and forced seven penalty corners while St. Anne’s School earned five penalty corners. But none of them could be converted into a goal. |
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Mayank, Sachin move up in Jaspal Kaur TT New Delhi, October 11 Mayank defeated Prashant 11-6, 15-13, 7-11, 13-11 and Sachin thrashed Puneet Singh 11-8, 8-11, 12-10, 7-11, 11-6. In the kids section pre-quarter-finals, Aashita Jain beat Raghav Pangasa 14-16, 13-11, 11-6, 11-8; Tarun Gupta b Sankalp Gupta 11-3, 11-8, 11-5; Ayush Diwedi beat Rishab Sachdeva 11-4, 15-13, 11-9; Archit beat Anmol Kumar 11-8, 11-7, 11-6; Rohan Bhatnagar beat Raghav Sachdeva 11-9, 11-6, 11-7; Chitram Adlakha b Himansh Kumar 11-3, 11-3, 11-8; Sudhanshu Gover b Tushar Jain 11-1, 11-2, 11-4; Monika Batra b Utkarsh Gupta 12-10, 11-8, 11-5.
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