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Allergy, asthma awareness urged

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PONDICHERRY, JAN. 1 . The Director of Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), K.S.V.K. Subba Rao, has called for sustained dissemination of information about allergy and asthma.

He was inaugurating a workshop on `Practical procedures in allergy testing' organised under the International Allergy and Asthma Update-2000 by the Departments of Medicine and Paediatrics in the JIPMER today.

He said whenever a drug was introduced it would be taken as effective to conquer the ailments. But most of the time the disease came back with more vigour. With limited resources, treatment facilities were available. But sustained dissemination was more important.

The JIPMER Dean, K. S. Reddy, who presided, said immunology was not given due recognition, and for the past 30 years, not much progress was made.

Around 150 delegates were taking part in the workshop.

S. Srinivasan, Director and Head, Department of Paediatrics JIPMER, and K. R. Sethuraman, Head, Department of Medicine, spoke.

The participants observed silence in memory of those killed in the tsunami strike.

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