Health Bulletin 25/April/2023

Here are the top health stories for the day:

Property Tax: PGI Chandigarh named major defaulter by UT Govt

The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) has become a major tax defaulter owing Rs 12.57 crore as property tax to the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation.

With this, two premier institutes including PGI Chandigarh and Panjab University (PU) have become the top property tax defaulters for the financial year 2022-2023, reports TOI.

While Panjab University topped the list having Rs 23 crore as due, PGIMER is at the second position in the list as the premier medical institute has around Rs 12.57 crore due as property tax to the municipal corporation.

For more details, check out the link given below:

Property Tax: PGI Chandigarh Named Major Defaulter By UT Govt

Fee structure revised for MBBS, BDS, PG Medical, Super Speciality, Nursing admissions 2023 in Kerala

The annual fee structure has been revised for Medical, Dental, Nursing, and Super Specialty courses for the students admitted from the 2023-24 academic year onwards.

For more details, check out the link given below:

Fee Structure Revised For MBBS, BDS, PG Medical, Super Speciality, Nursing Admissions 2023 In Kerala, Details

How alcohol consumption contributes to chronic pain

Chronic alcohol consumption may make people more sensitive to pain through two different molecular mechanisms-one driven by alcohol intake and one by alcohol withdrawal. That is one new conclusion by scientists at Scripps Research on the complex links between alcohol and pain.

The research, published in the British Journal of Pharmacology on April 12, 2023, also suggests potential new drug targets for treating alcohol-associated chronic pain and hypersensitivity.

“There is an urgent need to better understand the two-way street between chronic pain and alcohol dependence,” says senior author Marisa Roberto, PhD, the Schimmel Family Chair of Molecular Medicine, and a professor of neuroscience at Scripps Research. “Pain is both a widespread symptom in patients suffering from alcohol dependence, as well as a reason why people are driven to drink again.”

Reference:

Borgonetti, V., Roberts, A. J., Bajo, M., Galeotti, N., & Roberto, M. (2023). Chronic alcohol induced mechanical allodynia by promoting neuroinflammation: a mouse model of alcohol‐evoked neuropathic pain. British Journal of Pharmacology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.16091