MEDINEWS:

1. Blood Test to Diagnose Nonviable Pregnancies.

Among women who have bleeding or pain and an inconclusive ultrasound scan in early pregnancy, a single serum progesterone test may be able to identify those who are likely to miscarry or who have an ectopic pregnancy.

a single test with a threshold of 3.2 to 6 ng/mL predicted a nonviable pregnancy with a sensitivity of 74.6% and a specificity of 98.4%.

2.New drug against T.B.

• pyridomycin, a natural antibiotic (produced by the bacterium) is active against many of the drug-resistant types of the tuberculosis that no longer respond to treatment with the front-line drug isoniazid. pyridomycin kills Mycobacterium tuberculosis by inhibiting InhA.

3.prescribe generic medicines: 

• the union health ministry plans to bring in a legislation to make it mandatory for doctors to prescribe generic medicines.

4.Medical implants capable of dissolving completely in bodily fluids :  medical implants that perform important diagnostic or therapeutic functions for a useful amount of time and then simply dissolve and resorb in the body.