HEALTH

BODY & MIND
Women and matters of the heart
Tripti Nath

WORKING women are under dual stress due to responsibilities at home and workplace and must, therefore, not dismiss warning signals of heart disease.

Dr Upendra Kaul, Director, Interventional Cardiology and

Electrophysiology, Batra Hospital, says that the number of young working women under medication for heart diseases is on the rise. Dual stress is triggered off by the pressures and demands of the workplace and equally perplexing problems and tensions of the family and home.

According to Dr Kaul, the inequal distribution of work in Indian households leaves the woman tired and anxious. This affects the blood pressure, which in turn affects the heart.

Smoking, alcohol intake, faulty food habits and lack of physical exercise also increases the risk of heart diseases. Other symptoms that should be taken seriously are chronic breathlessness, waking up in the middle of the night to catch breath, chronic fatigue, dizziness, swelling of ankles and fluttering heartbeats. Dr Kaul says that women often ignore pain and discomfort in the chest and mistake it as normal heartburn or acidity. It is important to recognise symptoms of Coronay Heart Disease well in time. He suggests yoga, meditation and music as effective ways to tackle stress.

Liquid stitches introduced

Johnson & Johnson has introduced Dermabond, liquid stitches, which close wounds without the use of sutures. The stitches can be used to close incisions and laceration, which would, otherwise, need sutures, staples or skin strips. Approved by the US food and Drug Administration, Dermabond is available in India on medical prescription.

The liquid stitches are appropriate for abdominal surgeries, back surgeries and surgeries of the face, neck, arms and legs. Besides, they are used for closure of facial incisions on the eyelid or nose.

In some cases, it also eliminates the need for an antibiotic injection for wound closure. Dermabond liquid stitches can be applied only by a doctor.

The stitches react with moisture on the skin’s surface and form a strong, flexible bond in two and a half minutes. As the wound heals, the stitches peel off in five to ten days.

This saves patients the trouble of revisiting the doctor for removal of stitches

WorldStar 2003 Award for Dr Reddy’s Labs

Dr Reddy’s Laboratories was recently honoured with the prestigious WorldStar 2003 award by the World Packaging Organisation for the anti-counterfeit packaging design for Omez (Omeprazole) capsules.

The award function was held in Basel in Switzerland.

The jury, comprising representatives of the World Packaging Organisation, the International Packaging Press Organisation and the International Association of Packaging Research Institutes, met in Cairo, Egypt, in October last year.

Wordstars are presented only to those packages which have been recognised in a national competition and are compared by an expert panel of judges to similar packages from other parts of the world. The awards were instituted by the World Packaging Organisation in 1970.

Mr Satish Reddy, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Dr Reddy’s Laboratories described the honour as a “significant achievement” in their effort to ensure the availability of safe and high quality medicines.

“Counterfeit medicines put the lives of millions of patients at risk. Innovative packaging will save the health and life of patients.”

The Omez capsules pack is inimitable and has several overt and covert anti-counterfeit features. The primary pack features are an embossed brand name, ink jet coding of batch details and circular printing on capsule shells.

The secondary pack features are unique and invisible matrix with a photograph on the side panel and brand name OMEZ on the front panel of the carton. This cannot be scanned or photocopied.

Baxter Healthcare Corp.

Baxter Healthcare Corporation announced the launch of a blood donor friendly ALYX Component Collection System at a seminar on Transfusion Developments and Blood Safety.

The ALYX System produces two units of Leuco-reduced red cells from a single donor without extracting double the amount of blood. It collects whole blood, separates the red cells from the whole blood and returns all other blood components to the donor.

Ms Dianna Fox, Global Brand Manager, Baxter Heath Care, explained that since ALYX extracts only red cells and returns all other components to the donor, it enables blood centres increase red cells supplies without enlarging the donor pool. This will also be a boon to thalassemia patients. Many blood centres have reported shortage of red blood cells (RBCs). The demand of RBC has exceeded supply due to increase in the number of surgeries, growing population of older patients and fewer donors.”

In his presentation, Mr Sanjiv Verma, Managing Director, Baxter India said, “ The ALYX system is the next step in the evolution of automation. It is fast, portable, easy to use, donor friendly and delivers the optimum supply of critically needed, high quality blood components.”

SPORTS

Malviya get past Karma in Raghubir Singh tourney
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Abhishek Kaushik was presented the Reebok man of the match award. Sunday’s fixture: Chand Khanna vs Rajdhani—7.30 a m.

Oriental Bank hit back to hold PNB
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New Delhi, May 22
Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) came from behind to hold Punjab National Bank (PNB) 3-3 in a Group B match of the Senior Division DSA Institutional League Football Championship at the Ambedkar Stadium on Saturday.

Bhupender Thakur put PNB in the lead in the second minute, and then Pramod Rawat added a fine brace of goals to lead by 3-0 at half time.

On resumption, Oriental Bank struck back with Dharmender Kharola, Sanjeev Sharma and Dharmender Kharola again finding the mark.

PNB custodian Dipu Lama and OBC’s Himanshu Sharma were shown the red card by referee Bikramjit Bisht for violent play.

Meanwhile, in the DSA Inter-Club transfer of players, Garhwal Heroes profited the maximum as Bhupinder Rawat

(Indian Nationals), Trilok Bisht (Shastri), Gaimulin Kamen (N D Heroes), Pradeep Kumar (Youngmen), Devesh Kaushik (Simla Youngs) and Manoj Gusain (Shastri) came to their fold.

Subash Negi (Shastri), Inderjit Dhar (National), Inderjit Sharma (Hans) and Biswanath Deb (National) took transfer to Hindustan. As many as 20 players sought transfer on the opening day.

Hemant Singh stars for Ravindra Academy
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New Delhi, May 22
An all-round display by Hemant Singh (4 for 25 and 68 n o) and a dashing unbeaten knock of 69 by Anuj Jain helped Ravindra Cricket Academy defeat Montfort Academy by 10 wickets in a league match of the Cambridge Foundation Under-19 Summer League Cricket Tournament on the Cambridge ground, Rajouri Garden.

In another match, Gold Star defeated Tagore Public School by 90 runs.

Scores: Montfort School: 156 all out in 27.2 overs (Sahil Jain 36, Mohit Daniel 32, Hemant Singh 4 for 25, Vipul Gupta 3 for 22).

RCA: 157 for no loss in 18.2 overs (Anuj Jain 69 n o, Hemant Singh 68 n o).

Gold Star: 271 for 7 in 30 overs (Pragat Singh 80, Onant Jai Singh 58, Manu Sharma 55, Jatin Aneja 3 for 58). TPS: 181 all out in 28.4 overs (Mohit Negi 52, Jatin Aneja 43, Puneet Singh 4 for 33, Amarjeet Singh 3 for 10).

HPCA beat SG Sports

Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) defeated S G Sports by 55 runs in the Goswami Ganesh Dutt Memorial Cricket Tournament on the Khalsa College ground. Vikramjeet Singh was named the man of the match.

Scores: HPCA: 194 for 7 in 40 overs (Ajay Mannu 47, Sangram Singh 31, Paras Dogra 21, Saurabh Saxena 3 for 25, Praveen Gupta 2 for 40).

S G Sports: 139 all out in 33 overs (Lalit Rawat 52 n o, Suresh Raina 33, Vikramjit Singh 4 for 24, Paras Dogra 2 for 13).

Sunday’s fixture: Sonnet vs HPCA.

Rohan Segal shines

An all-round performance by Rohan Sehgal (3 for 31 and 33) helped Modern School, Vasant Vihar defeat Madan Lal Cricket Academy by three wickets in a league match of the Chetan Sharma Academy Under-14 Cricket Tournament on the SS Khalsa School ground.

Scores: Madan Lal Academy: 181 for 9 in 35 overs (Karan Aggarwal 56, Abhishek Rajgopal 31, Prateek Nodha 30 n o, Rohan Sehgal 3 for 31, Vinayak Lal 3 for 35).

Modern School: 184 for 7 in 34.4 overs (Naved Hussain 44, Rohan Sehgal 33, Dhruv Shorey 26, Digvijay 2 for 36, Gaurav Kumar 2 for 16, Geet Arora 2 for 34).

Gyan Bharati win

Gyan Bharati Academy defeated Shahdara Sports by nine wickets in the Sharma Sports Under-19 Cricket Tournament on the Yamuna complex ground.

Scores: Shahdara Sports: 84 all out in 20.3 overs (Naveen Bansal 31, Harpreet Sethi 4 for 30, Manpreet Singh 3 for 2).

Gyan Bharati: 85 for 1 in 13.3 overs (Varun Sudan 50 n o, Soaib Prasad 27 n o). Harpreet Singh was named the man of the match.

In another match, Ajmal Khan Coaching Centre beat Alpine Academy by nine wickets.

Scores: Alpine: 112 all out in 27.3 overs (Digvijay Singh 38, Nitin Kumar 30, Sunny Sethi 3 for 16, Nitin Chugh 3 for 9, Parvesh Shokeen 3 for 16).

Ajmal Khan: 113 for 1 in 19.3 overs (Ankit Singh 68, Anees Kumar 33 n o). Ankit Singh was named the man of the match.

DDCA to hold umpiring classes

New Delhi: The Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) will conduct classes for State-panel and official match umpires of the association for one week, starting on June 4, under the guidance of Ram Babu Gupta, S K Bansal, Yashpal Sharma and Anil Chaudhary.

DDCA joint sports secretary Sunil Khanna said the classes would be held at the DDCA premises to improve the standard of umpiring in Delhi.

Sunil Khanna announced that interested umpires as well as players who have represented Delhi in the Under-19, Under-22 and Ranji Trophy tournaments may obtain registration forms on payment of Rs 500 from DDCA sports officer Satpal between 1 and 7 p m from May 27 to 31. He said no registration will be entertained after the last date. OSR

Amar Singh hits century

New Delhi: An unbeaten century by Amar Singh (159, 12x6, 15x4) helped Commet Academy beat Delhi Eagle by seven wickets in the ID Paul Memorial Cricket Tournament on the Apex Public School ground. Amar Singh was named the Coca-Cola man of the match.

Scores: Delhi Eaglet: 289 for 5 in 25 overs (Saurabh Negi 112, Saurabh Malik 87, Yashpal 34, Vipin Chaudhary 3 for 56).

Comment Academy: 290 for 3 in 20.3 overs (Amar Singh 159 n o, Anurag Kumar 60, Durga Prasad 43). OSR