Friday Breaking News 8 July 2011

1. Melbourne researcher (Monash University) come up with new smart bandage that change colour depending on the temperature of the skin beneath.The smart bance can indicate increases in temperature that may result from fevers and infection or decreases resulting from medical issue such as blood clot. They tuned the fibre to show a healthy temperature as green, dropping under that turn the bandage red and above is blue.


2. FDA approve obat broncodilator, indacaterol maleat (arcapta) dari Novartis, digunakan untuk mantainance COPD. Penggunaan obat ini tidak untuk asma yang symptom yang sangat cepat. Efek samping resiko asma yang bisa menyebabkan kematian. Indacaterol sudah di approve di EU dengan nama Onbrez Breezhaler. Dan akan dilaunch di US pada Q1 2012.


3. Correlation between autism and crawling. Crawling can pressing against a nerve of medulla oblongata. The baby who has austism, usually does not pass through crawling phase.


4. The reality in Indonesia, we only have 4 international hospital (siloam Karawaci, RS Bintaro Tangerang, Eka hospital, Santosa hospital) but now ministry of health targeted 7 government hospital to be international hospital (RSCM, Fatmawati, Sardjito Jogja, Adam malik, Gatot Subroto, RS Sanglah Bali, RS Dr Wahidin Sudirohusodo Makasar). These hospital will be audited by Joint Commision International (JCI).
   The aim of this target to prevent WNI who want to get treatment at another country, that cost 1.2 Billion USD per year.


5. The side effect of IVF (Invitro Fertilization) can increase risk down syndrome on the baby born. Because the stimulation of ovum can disturb the chromosome duplication process (Meiosis). This can cause chromosome to be abnormal.


6. Prof Martin Schwab has conducted his research for about 25 years for treatment of paralysis and quadriplegics patients. He discover and antibody called anti-Nogo. Nogo is protein which prevent the regeration of axon. This study will come to phase 2 in this summer. In preclinic stuc the antibody recover some of the function in 80% of cases, against only 15% of those who receive placebo.


7. Mochtar Riady Comprehensive Cancer Center Siloam inaugurated by President SBY . It is the first private cancer hospital in Indonesia. This hospital was founded by the owner of Lippo group with background many Indonesian go to another country to get their cancer therapy, which is the cost is 2 Billion USD.


8. Celecoxib might be effective an preventing the development of recurrent of lung cancer in former heavy smoker. But it associate with increase risk of cardiovascular event.


9. Using antidepressant (Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, e.g Duloxetin, Floxetin) during 3 semester pregnant increase risk of autism in baby.


10. Linagliptin (Tragenta) from Boehringer Ingelheim & Eli Lily Company announce phase 3 study with the result demonstating improve glycemic control in adult with type 2 diabetic whose blood glucose is not adequately maintained.


11. Woman who sit for extended periods (more than 41 hours a week) everyday are twice or even three times as likely to develop a life-threatening blood clot in their lung as compared with active woman (less than 10 hours of a week).


12. The ministry of health said there are the different of disease between urban and rural citizen in Indonesia. The most disease commonly found in urban citizen with age 45-55 years old is stroke, diabetes mellitus and ischemia heart disease and in rural citizen is tuberkolosis (TB), stroke and hypertension. While for citizen with age more than 65 years old is stoke and hypertension, It is same between urban and rural citizen. Ministry of health said the increases of this disease caused by less of fruit consumption (94%), less of exercise (48%), smoke every day (35%) and alcohol consumption during 12 months (4.6%).