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Thursday, Dec 09, 2004

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Statin heart therapy

NEW DELHI DEC. 8. Heart attack patients should receive a statin drug to lower cholesterol as soon as possible, the president of the Heart Care Foundation of India, K K Aggarwal, has said.

Quoting a new study by Debabrata Mukherjee and colleagues from the University of Michigan, Dr. Aggarwal said patients treated for severe chest pain or a heart attack, if given statins within 24 hours fare better than those who are not given the drugs.

According to the report which appeared in the American Journal of Cardiology, 1,284 patients were treated with statins within 24 hours of admission, while the remaining 355 received the drugs at a later time point. Patients in the early statin therapy group had a lower occurrence of death, stroke, repeat heart attack, and heart failure during their hospital stay, compared with patients in the delayed therapy group.

The current guidelines recommend that statin therapy be started when the patient is discharged from hospital.

Hawkins visits Prayas institute

NEW DELHI DEC. 8. Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins visited the Prayas Institute of Juvenile on Tuesday to interact with children, several of whom have been victims of sexual abuse and trafficking. Ms. Hawkins also visited the Centre for Alternative Education Programme for Street Children in the institute premises. Speaking on the occasion, she expressed her desire to promote the issue of children's rights and praised the work being done by Prayas. Also, she said issues regarding sexual abuse of children and denial of basic education to them were great challenges for countries like India and that she would like to focus on these areas in future.

School annual sports day

NEW DELHI DEC. 8. Mount Carmel School at Anand Niketan organised its annual sports meet at the Rajputana Rifles Ground here this past weekend. The Union Human Resource Development Minister, Arjun Singh, presided over the function, while the principal V.K.Williams presented the annual report of the school. On the occasion the children participated in a host of athletic events and games and also presented colourful folk dances of various States.

A special football match

NEW DELHI DEC. 8. As part of its awareness programmes, the Delhi State AIDS Control Society today organised "Samanjasya'', an exhibition football match between two combined teams of people living with HIV/AIDS and personnel of the Delhi police and the Central Reserve Police Force.

This friendly match was organised with the aim of spreading the message that "HIV people are as normal as any other people and that they can easily take part in any of the normal activities of life''.

Last year also the Society had organised a football match.

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