Health Bulletin 14/ May/ 2024 - Video
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Overview
Here are the top health news for the day:
NEET candidates paid up to Rs 50 lakhs for getting question papers in advance
The brokers involved in the NEET paper leak scam took between Rs 30 lakh to Rs 50 lakh from each of the medical aspirants in exchange of giving them the question paper of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2024 ahead of the examination on May 5th, 2024, the Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of Bihar Police has revealed.
EOU has seized several documents, including bank cheques, roll codes of candidates and other papers from the flats of Nitish Kumar and Amit Anand, who were arrested by the Patna Police on May 5.
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Maharashtra records 91 cases of new Covid subvariant 'FLiRT'
The Maharashtra government has identified 91 cases of the new Covid-19 Omicron subvariant KP.2, surpassing the previously dominant JN.1 variant as the main contributor to cases in several countries. Pune has reported the highest incidence with 51 cases, followed by Thane with 20 cases. Despite the increase in cases, there has been no rise in hospitalizations or severe cases.
In addition to Pune and Thane, Amravati and Aurangabad each reported seven cases, while Solapur recorded two cases, and Ahmednagar, Nashik, Latur, and Sangli each reported one case of the KP.2 variant. Mumbai reported no cases. The FLiRT group of variants, primarily comprising KP.1.1 and KP.2, are named for specific mutations they carry. KP.2, first identified globally in January, is now the dominant strain in the United States.
More than 37,000 medicos respond to NMC survey, confirm suffering from mental health issues
The shocking picture concerning the mental health of medical students has come to light as more than 37,000 medical students have submitted applications before the government authority, indicating that they are suffering from mental stress, Live Mint has reported.
Taking cognisance of this, the apex medical education authority has prescribed several measures including regulating the duty hours of the students and initiating a suicide watch. These recommendations by the National Medical Commission (NMC) will be submitted before the Union Health Ministry for further implementation across the medical colleges in the country.
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Obese people take more sick days off work, study claims
Researchers from Vienna, studying over 122,000 individuals across Europe, have highlighted the significant impact of obesity on work absenteeism, signaling a growing concern for the labor market. These findings, presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Italy, underscore the urgent need for policymakers to prioritize initiatives promoting healthy weight maintenance.
Although the study didn't include countries like the UK, France, Ireland, Malta, and Iceland due to insufficient data, the results from the 26 countries that were analyzed reveal that obesity increases the likelihood of taking sick leave, with the severity of obesity correlating with higher absenteeism rates. The research, partly sponsored by Novo Nordisk—a pharmaceutical company producing a weight-loss injection prescribed by the NHS—calls for immediate action.
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Roshni Dhar, a Mass com graduate with a soft corner for health happenings, joined Medical Dialogues as a news anchor in 2021. Inspired by her mother who is a gynaecologist, she likes to keep herself and the world updated on the occurring in the medical field. She covers various aspects of health news for MDTV at Medical Dialogues. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in. Contact no. 011-43720751