In Hospitium

THERE IS NO th I IN EYE 9 Edition WINNERS DECLARED! IN HOSPITIUM Dave & Harry New Comic Feature JoCACIS 2014 Supplementary Feature! Kalki Subramanyam Transgender Social Activist Speaks! This Edition is dedicated in the loving memory of late. Mr.Atul Vinod Shah (28 Dec 1960 - 31 Aug 2014) THE PARCHMENT Dear Readers, Lexicon is now bigger, better, finer and larger! Yes, we have more peeps on board now! In Hospitium (The Hospital, Latin), our edition this time concentrates on the hospital, on the outcomes of the patient care, the chances and risks that we take, depicting the dangerous and the detrimental, and illuminates on a journey of optimism only to culminate (Ms. Geeta S. Manipal) on the unification and integrity of many. See the views – the patient, his family, his doctor, the allied staff; peep into his disease; run along with the technological advancements, abreast with the scientific glory, deal with reality, learn a few healthy tips; observe the hospital way of dealing with wastes, live the solace, relief or depression, hear the echoes off the walls and finally, take a bit of this edition with you, to share and ponder over! For…it's a necessity. It's a brand. It's a Hospital. LET HEALTH BE OF PRIME IMPORTANCE! OCOTOBER 2014 • lexiconin.com P PANDORA'S BOX OCTOBER 2014 ON THE COVER 1 GLOBAL VISTAS 5 WORST CASE SCENARIO ● Miswiring In The Brain – Deeksha Seth ● Second Life – NarenNallapeta ● Why the Immune System Fails to Kill HIV? – Deeksha Seth ● 4 New Vaccines Introduced In India! – ApurvaLunia 6 LEXIAMMA’SLEXIGYAN 2 ARBOR VITAE ● Oh! I Hurt Myself Again – AshwiniRonghe ● Stay Healthy, But Keep Healthier – RuchiraDhoke ● Curiosity Saves Lives - HaleemaMunir ● The power of “Word” Therapy - Swati Shriyan 7 IN HOSPITIUM 3 CEREBRO ● The Toilet’s Humour – Bianca Honnekeri ● Women are Sisters, while Men are Doctors – ● How Well Do You Know The O.T.? – ArchitRastogi Dr. Suranjana Basak ● How to decide your medical specialty – Dr. Rohin ● Her Story – Nurse In Attire – Geeta S. ● A Risk Factor called Fate - Abhijeet Sharma 4 EDU-O ● The Other Side – Utkarsh Mishra ● The Perks of Technology with the Power of ● Supriya Kumar Doctor Patient Communication– Spandita Ghosh ● The Gift Of Humanity – ZeniaPoladia ● Oh! I Hurt Myself Again ● Stay Healthy, But Keep Healthier LEXI AMMA’S LEXIGYAN OCOTOBER 2014 • lexiconin.com 8 HISTORY REVISITED ● Under The Knife – Walk Through The Past - SnehaNandy 9 THE NEW TRUTH ● Tryptamine-Gallic acid Hybrid: The wonder drug to prevent the detriment by NSAIDs - ShinjiniChakraborty ● Revolutionizing infection control through antibacterial fabric – ChaitaleeGhosalkar ● Behind The Ebole Outbreak: Are We on the Right Track? – Pool Aguilar Leon 10 KNOWN CASE OF ● Histiocytic Necrotizing Lymphadenitis – Khushboo Gala 11 TECH-X ● The Hands See What the Eyes Cannot – Basalathullah Mohammad ● Feelings Which Are No Longer Phantom – ShrayashKhare 12 DIVERGING ROADS ● Swati Shriyan 13 VOICELEGENS ● Multiple Sclerosis – Ganga Prateik 14 ACTS OF KINDNESS ● The LightHouse Project – Dr. YashadaNabar ● KalkiSubramanyam of Sahodari Foundation – PriyankaManghaniManipur 15 THE OPEN LETTER ● Dr. RavitejaInamuri 16 DAVE AND HARRY ● Nikita Agarwal and ArbazMemon 17 THERE IS NO I IN EYE ● The Photography Contest Winners OCOTOBER 2014 • lexiconin.com GLOBAL VISTAS Deeksha Seth The researchers reported that the SorCS2 By journal PLOS Pathogens, researchers Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore receptor functions as a molecular switch have successfully shown at the molecular The Miswiring in the Brain between apparently opposing effects in ritten level what it is that weakens these (July 2014) W proBDNF (a neuronal growth factor that helps important CD8+ T cells. Two transcription select cells that are most beneficial to the factors called T-bet and Eomes work as nervous system and eliminates those that are less favorable to create a finely tuned ignition keys for the machinery of the neuronal network). SorCS2 is produced as a immune system. T-bet has the role of an single-chain protein (essential to tell the instigator that induces CD8+ T cells to neuron that it is time to stop growing)but it can divide and mature while Eomes have a be cut into two chains (the two-chain form tells more regulatory role and are primarily cells that support neurons in the developing active in building a memory against an peripheral nervous system to die when they infection. A study done on 64 HIV affected should). If damage occurs to a nerve in the patients shows that the CD8+ T cells peripheral nervous system, these cells that wrap around and nourish the neurons will die, specifically targeting HIV-infected cells preventing efficient regeneration. The have a low expression of T-bet, but an Neu findings of the study suggested that it might increased expression of regulatory roscien be possible to develop drug therapy to Eomes. This leads to CD8+ T cells that are t i s t s a t prevent this deadly cut of SorCS2 and treat maturing poorly and inhibit their ability Mayo Clinic in Florida and at Aarhus University acute nerve injury. to kill HIV-infected cells. Also it was found in Denmark have shed light on why neurons in that this pattern of the transcription the brain's reward system can be miswired, Deeksha Seth By factors was present even when the potentially contributing to attention deficit Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore h y p e r a c t i v i t y d i s o r d e r ( A D H D ) .T h e Why the Immune system fails to kill HIV? patients' HIV was responding well to dopaminergic neurons were the basis for the ritten (July 2014) medication.This probably explains why study. These regulate pleasure, motivation, W CD8+ T cells continue to function poorly reward, and cognition, and have been We know that CD8+ T despite long-term treatment with implicated in development of ADHD. cells are meant to antiviral drugs. The researchers hope to Scientists discovered a receptor system that is target and kill the discover how the transcription factors' critical, during embryonic development, for H I V v i r u s b u t expression can be affected so that T-bet correct wiring of the dopaminergic brain area. t h e y b e c o m e can be increased in patients with HIV. They also discovered that after brain exhausted and HIV That would possibly give the immune maturation, a cut in the same receptor, c a n n o t SorCS2, produces a two-chain receptor that completes their system a chance of killing HIV-infected induces cell death following damage to the task. In one study, cells and thus making it easier to cure HIV peripheral nervous system. published in the infection. ApurvaLunia introduced in high-priority districts, thus ensuring that the life-saving By Mahatma Gandhi Medical College, Jaipur vaccines reach all sections of the society, regardless of social and Four new vaccines, under ModiSarkar! economic status. ritten (August 2014) Along with the recent introduction of the pentavalent vaccine, this W decision represents one of the most significant policy leaps in 30 years in We live in a dangerous world. A world public health which aims to prevent at least one lakh infant deaths, adult where, peril, like the sword of Damocles death in working age group and up to 10 lakh hospitalizations each year, hangs overhead. Minor diseases switch to thereby reducing the 300 crore economic burden to our country every become uncontrollable epidemics. 1.4 year. million Children just die due to lack of The Rotavirus vaccine is the first indigenous vaccine developed and basic medicines. licensed in India under a public-private partnership by the Ministry of To meet the Millennium Development Science and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, being developed Goals aiming to reduce the child mortality against, the diarrhoea causing rotavirus, which is responsible for 80 rate by significant two-third by 2015, the thousand child deaths, over a million hospitalizations, and pushing prime-minister announced that 4 new several families below the poverty line. vaccines will now be a part of the Universal Vaccine against Rubella, which affects nearly 2 lakh newborns causing Immunization Programme (UIP), which currently provides free vaccines severe congenital defects like blindness, deafness and heart defects and against 13 life threatening diseases, to 27 million children annually. adult vaccine against Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in 179 endemic districts India’s Universal ImmunisationProgramme (U.I.P.) is one of the largest in in 9 states are being introduced under the The Universal Immunization the world in terms of quantities of vaccine used, the number of Programme. beneficiaries, the number of Immunisation session organised, the Reaffirming its commitment to the global goal of a polio free world, India, geographical spread and diversity of areas covered. which was certified polio free in 2014, is set to introduce Injectable Polio Expansion of the vaccines covered under the UIP has always been a Vaccine (IPV), together with 125 countries in a globally synchronized matter of discussion in the public health sectors, with the medical manner. fraternity rooting for immediate action for both health and economic These vaccines will not only significantly reduce the morbidity and benefits. mortality rates, but is also set to be a booster shot for the country’s local Three new vaccines against rotavirus, rubella and polio (injectable) and vaccine makers and pharmaceuticals. the fourth for adults to protect against Japanese Encephalitis are to be So let’s keep our fingers crossed, hopefully, acche din aane wale hain! OCOTOBER 2014 • lexiconin.com ARBOR VITAE Swati Shriyan By Pharmacist & MBA student, Mumbai The Power of “Word” Therapy ritten W Cardiology.…Dermatology….Diabetology….Ga stroentrology.…Neonatology….Neurology..… Nephrology!! “Madam, second floor, right side, last department”, called out a ward boy, as I gazed through the list of departments with names of doctors displayed on the ground floor of a hospital in Mumbai, trying to locate a doctor I intended to meet.

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