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GNIPST BULLETIN 2013

17th MAY 2013 Volume No.: 25 Issue No.: 02

ContentsMessage from GNIPS

Letter to the EditorNews Update

Disease Outbreak Ne

Health Awareness

Forth Coming Events

Drugs Update

Campus News

Students Section

Editors Note

Archive

Vision

TO GROW AS A CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN THE FIELD O

PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE

EDITOR: Debabrata Ghosh DastidarGURU NANAK INSTITUTE OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY

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MESSAGE FROM GNIPSTAll the members of GNIPST are proud to publish the 25th Volume of

GNIPST BULLETIN. This bulletin has successfully completed its

twenty four months journey. We hope it has kept the readers updated

of recent activities in pharmaceutical & biological sciences and also

introduced them with the different activities of our esteemed

institution. We are thankful to all of you for your great cooperation

& support and are looking forward to the same in future.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR.

NEWS UPDATE

WORLD NO TOBACCODAY: 31 MAY, 2013Every year, on 31 May, WHO and partners mark World No Tobacco

Day, highlighting the health risks associated with tobacco use and

advocating for effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption.

Tobacco kills nearly six million people each year, of which more

than 600 000 are non-smokers dying from breathing second-hand

smoke. The theme of this years campaign is "Ban tobacco

advertising, promotion and sponsorship".Read more

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New Device Can Extract Human DNA With Full

Genetic Data in Minutes (06 MAY 2013)

Engineers have created a device that can extract human DNA fromfluid samples in a simpler, more efficient and environmentally

friendly way than conventional methods.Read more

Ubiquitous Engineered Nanomaterials Can Cause

Lung Inflammation:Substances Are Used in

Everything from Paint to Sporting Equipment(06 MAY 2013)

Scientists have found that breathing ultrafine particles from a large

family of materials that increasingly are found in a host of household

and commercial products, from sunscreens to the ink in copy

machines to super-strong but lightweight sporting equipment, cancause lung inflammation and damage.Read more

Possible Treatment for Serious Blood Cancer

(06 MAY 2013)

A single antibody could be the key to treating multiple myeloma, or

cancer of the blood, currently without cure or long-term treatment.

New tests have shown that the antibody is able to destroy myeloma

cells.Read more

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Endogenous Antibiotic Discovered in the Brain?

(06 MAY 2013)

Scientists have discovered that immune cells in the brain can

produce a substance that prevents bacterial growth: namely

itaconic acid. Until now, biologists had assumed that only certain

fungi produced itaconic acid. Scientists have now shown that even

so-called microglial cells in mammals are also capable of producing

this acid.Read moreBrain Anatomy of Dyslexia Is Not the Same in

Men and Women, Boys and Girls (08 MAY 2013)

Using MRI, neuroscientists have found significant differences in

brain anatomy when comparing men and women with dyslexia to

their non-dyslexic control groups. Their study is the first to directlycompare brain anatomy of females with and without dyslexia.Readmore

Biosensor That Detects Antibiotic Resistance

Brings Us One Step Closer to Fighting Superbugs.

(08 MAY 2013)

New research demonstrates how a biosensor can detect antibiotic

resistance in bacteria. This new technology is a preliminary step in

identifying and fighting superbugs, a major public health concern

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that has led to more deaths than AIDS in the United States in recent

years.Read moreUsing Bacteria to Stop Malaria (09 MAY 2013)

Mosquitoes are deadly efficient disease transmitters. New research

however, demonstrates that they also can be part of the solution for

preventing diseases such as malaria.Read more 'Magic Bullet Nanomedicine Developed for Acute

Lung Injury(14MAY 2013

)Researchers have devised a magic bullet nanomedicine which

could become the first effective treatment for Acute Lung Injury or

ALI, a condition affecting 20 per cent of all patients in intensive

care.Read moreVitamin C Does Not Lower Uric Acid Levels in

Gout Patients, Study Finds(16 MAY 2013)

Despite previous studies touting its benefit in moderating gout risk,

new research reveals that vitamin C, also known ascorbic acid, does

not reduce uric acid (urate) levels to a clinically significant degree

in patients with established gout. Vitamin C supplementation,

alone or in combination with allopurinol, appears to have a weak

effect on lowering uric acid levels in gout patients, according to the

results of a new study.Read more

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HEALTH AWARENESS

TOBACCO

Leading cause of death, illness and impoverishment

The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world

has ever faced. It kills nearly 6 million people a year of whom more than 5

million are from direct tobacco use and more than 600 000 are nonsmokers

exposed to second-hand smoke. Approximately one person dies every six

seconds due to tobacco and this accounts for one in 10 adult deaths. Up tohalf of current users will eventually die of a tobacco-related disease.

Nearly 80% of the more than one billion smokers worldwide live in low-

and middle-income countries, where the burden of tobacco-related illness

and death is heaviest.

Tobacco users who die prematurely deprive their families of income, raise

the cost of health care and hinder economic development.

In some countries, children from poor households are frequently employed

in tobacco farming to provide family income. These children are especially

vulnerable to "green tobacco sickness", which is caused by the nicotine that

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Because there is a lag of several years between when people start using

tobacco and when their health suffers, the epidemic of tobacco-related

disease and death has just begun.

Tobacco caused 100 million deaths in the 20th century. If current trends

continue, it may cause about one billion deaths in the 21st century.

Unchecked, tobacco-related deaths will increase to more than eight

million per year by 2030. More than 80% of those deaths will be in low- and

middle-income countries.

Surveillance is key

Good monitoring tracks the extent and character of the tobacco epidemic

and indicates how best to tailor policies. Only fifty-nine countries,

representing under half of the world's population, monitor tobacco use by

repeating nationally representative youth and adult surveys at least once

every five years.

Second-hand smoke kills

Second-hand smoke is the smoke that fills restaurants, offices or other

enclosed spaces when people burn tobacco products such as cigarettes,

bidis and water pipes. There are more than 4000 chemicals in tobacco

smoke, of which at least 250 are known to be harmful and more than 50 areknown to cause cancer.

There is no safe level of exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke.



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In adults, second-hand smoke causes serious cardiovascular and

respiratory diseases, including coronary heart disease and lung cancer. In

infants, it causes sudden death. In pregnant women, it causes low birth

weight.Almost half of children regularly breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke

in public places.

Over 40% of children have at least one smoking parent.

Second-hand smoke causes more than 600 000 premature deaths per

year.

In 2004, children accounted for 28% of the deaths attributable to second-

hand smoke.

Every person should be able to breathe smoke-free air. Smoke-free laws

protect the health of non-smokers, are popular, do not harm business and

encourage smokers to quit.

Under 11% of the world's population are protected by comprehensive

national smoke-free laws.

The number of people protected from second-hand smoke more than

doubled to 739 million in 2010 from 354 million in 2008.

Tobacco users need help to quit

Studies show that few people understand the specific health risks of

tobacco use. For example, a 2009 survey in China revealed that only 38% of

smokers knew that smoking causes coronary heart disease and only 27%

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Among smokers who are aware of the dangers of tobacco, most want to

quit. Counselling and medication can more than double the chance that a

smoker who tries to quit will succeed.

National comprehensive health-care services supporting cessation are

available in only 19 countries, representing 14% of the world's population.

There is no cessation assistance in 28% of low-income countries and 7% of

middle-income countries.

Picture warnings work

Hard-hitting anti-tobacco advertisements and graphic pack warnings

especially those that include pictures reduce the number of children who

begin smoking and increase the number of smokers who quit.

Graphic warnings can persuade smokers to protect the health of non-

smokers by smoking less inside the home and avoiding smoking near

children. Studies carried out after the implementation of pictorial package

warnings in Brazil, Canada, Singapore and Thailand consistently show that

pictorial warnings significantly increase people's awareness of the harms of

tobacco use.

Mass media campaigns can also reduce tobacco consumption, by

influencing people to protect non-smokers and convincing youths to stop

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Just 19 countries, representing 15% of the world's population, meet the best

practice for pictorial warnings, which includes the warnings in the local

language and cover an average of at least half of the front and back of

cigarette packs. No low-income country meets this best-practice level.Forty-two countries, representing 42% of the worlds population, mandate

pictorial warnings.

More than 1.9 billion people, representing 28% of the world's population,

live in the 23 countries that have implemented at least one strong anti-

tobacco mass media campaign within the last two years.

Ad bans lower consumption

Bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship can reduce

tobacco consumption.

A comprehensive ban on all tobacco advertising, promotion and

sponsorship could decrease tobacco consumption by an average of about

7%, with some countries experiencing a decline in consumption of up to

16%.

Only 19 countries, representing 6% of the worlds population, have

comprehensive national bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and

sponsorship.

Around 38% of countries have minimal or no restrictions at all on tobaccoadvertising, promotion and sponsorship.

Taxes discourage tobacco use



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Tobacco taxes are the most effective way to reduce tobacco use, especially

among young people and poor people. A tax increase that increases tobacco

prices by 10% decreases tobacco consumption by about 4% in high-income

countries and by up to 8% in low- and middle-income countries.Only 27 countries, representing less than 8% of the world's population,

have tobacco tax rates greater than 75% of the retail price.

Tobacco tax revenues are on average 154 times higher than spending on

tobacco control, based on available data.

DISEASE OUTBREAK NEWS

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

AICTE Sponsored National Seminar on "EMERGING TRENDS AND

INNOVATIONS IN DRUG DELIVERY AND PHARMACEUTICAL

SCIENCES".

Date: 19th May. 2013.

Venue: Columbia Institute of Pharmacy, Raipur, CG, India

Registration form

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DRUGS UPDATES

FDA approves Simponi to treat ulcerative colitis

(15 MAY 2013)

The U.S. FDA approved a new use for Simponi (golimumab)

injection to treat adults with moderate to severe ulcerative

colitis.Read more FDA approves new drug for advanced prostate

cancer(15 MAY 2013)

Xofigo (radium Ra 223 dichloride) to treat men with symptomatic

late-stage (metastatic) castration-resistant prostate cancer that has

spread to bones but not to other organs. It is intended for men

whose cancer has spread after receiving medical or surgical therapy

to lower testosterone.Read more.CAMPUS NEWS

JOB OPPOURTUNITY

There is vacancy for the post of Medical Representative in Eisai

Pharmaceuticals India Pvt. Ltd. The interested B.Pharm. pass out

students are required to contact Mr. Abir Koley (8017445495)

immediately.

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STUDENTS SECTION

WHO CAN ANSWER FIRST???() Arne Larsson was famous as a first patient of

which implanted device?

() Albert Ladenburg in 1980 isolated whichalkaloid?

Answer of Previous Issue Question:A) Prednisone B)Methotrexate

Send your thoughts/ Quiz/Puzzles/games/write-ups or any other contributions for Students Section

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Special thanks to Dr. Prerona Saha for her advice; Mr. Soumya

Bhattacharya, for his contribution in students section.

It would be my great pleasure to receive the contributions,

suggestions & feedback from your desk for further upliftment of this

deliberation GNIPST BULLETIN.

ARCHIVE

The general body meeting of APTI, Bengal Branch has been

conducted at GNIPST on 15th June, 2012. The programme started

with a nice presentation by Dr. Pulok Kr. Mukherjee, School of

Natural Products, JU on the skill to write a good manuscript for

publication in impact journals. It was followed by nearly two hour

long discussion among more than thirty participants on different

aspects of pharmacy education. Five nonmember participants

applied for membership on that very day.

GNIPST is now approved by AICTE and affiliated to WBUT for

conducting the two years post graduate course (M.Pharm) in

PHARMACOLOGY. The approved number of seat is 18.

The number of seats in B.Pharm. has been increased from 60 to 120.

2nd World Congress on Ga-68 (Generators and Novel Radiopharmaceuticals),

Molecular Imaging (PET/CT), Targeted Radionuclide Therapy, and Dosimetry

(SWC-2013) : On the Way to Personalized Medicine



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Dates 28 Feb 2013 02 Mar 2013

Location: Chandigarh, India.Details.

AICTE has sanctioned a release of grant under Research

Promotion Scheme (RPS) during the financial year 2012-

13to GNIPST as per the details below:

a. Beneficiary Institution: Guru Nanak Institution of

Pharmaceutical Science & Technology.

b. Principal Investigator: Dr. Lopamudra Dutta.

c. Grant-in-aid sanctioned: Rs. 16,25000/- only

d.Approved duration: 3 years

e. Title of the project: Screening and identification of potential

medicinal plant ofPurulia &Bankura districts of West Bengal with

respect to diseases such as diabetes, rheumatism, Jaundice,

hypertension and developing biotechnological tools for enhancing

bioactive molecules in these plant.

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