World Polio Day 2020 was an educational public relations project conducted as a joint online awareness programme by the University of Colombo clinical society & the Rotaract club of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo. It was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Colombo North. The project was completed on 24th of October 2020. …
Did you know that around 10 million people die needlessly each year due to hypertension-related complications, but only half of the people with high blood pressure are aware of it? Hypertension or “high blood pressure” is a global public health challenge and is considered to be the No. 1 contributing risk factor for cardiovascular mortality …
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Depending on the severity, sports injuries can vary from simple bruises to life threatening conditions like spinal injuries and head injuries. Also the types of injuries we encounter vary from sport to sport. However soft tissue injuries like ligament injuries and muscle injuries without causing any mortality, keep an athlete away from playing for a …
Diabetes is a non-communicable disease, which is progressively infiltrating the society and placing millions of lives in jeopardy. Currently the whole world is affected from this, making it a Pandemic. Evidence shows in developed countries more than 35% of patients with diabetes are not diagnosed and day by day we see increasing number of patients …
Dengue, also known as breakbone fever, is a fast emerging viral disease in many parts of the world. This mosquito-borne viral infection not only flourishes in urban areas, suburbs, and the countryside, but also affects more affluent neighbourhoods in tropical and subtropical countries causing a severe flu-like illness and sometimes lethal complications in its victims. …
MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION – MI (Heart Attack) What precisely is an infarcted myocardium? ‘Myocardium’ refers to the muscle of the heart while ‘infarction’ stems from the Latin word, infarcire, translating to “to plug up or cram”. In familiar terms, it means Heart Attack. It is a common form of synesthesia to coin heart attacks with words …
Depression encompasses a spectrum of disease states where the person suffers from lowering of mood, reduction of energy, and decrease in activity. Capacity for enjoyment, interest, and concentration is reduced. (The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioral disorders; WHO, 1992) Global burden The World Health Organization (WHO) reports in 2017 that 322 million people suffered …
Epidemiology Affecting around 1.7 billion children worldwide, diarrhoea is the second leading cause of death in those under 5 years, globally. It’s impact to the health status of the world has made ‘the prevention of deaths caused by diarrhoea’ a priority in the eyes of the WHO. According to the Demographic and Health Survey report …
Medical Myth Buster #5 It’s no secret that the first thing which comes to your head upon seeing a person with FITS is to go look for a metal spoon, yeah ? Well our grand parents did it, our parents did it, and some of us also do it. BUT THATS WRONG!! We would like …
Medical myth busters #4 We have almost eradicated Polio from the world by immunizing our children against it. Immunization gives active or passive immunity to your child against infectious diseases. It’s not the same as injecting your child with the disease, but it’s basically giving the protection against them. It’s very important to eradicate some …
