Mikrobiyoloji 2008

A leader in the health market sector, Aetna dental insurance is
provided by Aetna Company, US. The services they provide cover a wide
range from both health and pharmaceutical domains. The main advantage
of their packages is that people are advised and assisted to make
health-related decisions on the basis of comprehensive information
discussed with the company's insurance representatives.
There are
lots of Aetna dental insurance plans available in all the fifty states
of US, most of them provided by associated brokers operating
nationwide. The main plans for Aetna dental insurance include the
Health Fund plans, the indemnity category, hybrid options, network only
and network options as well as discount variants.

All the plans have a remarkable flexibility rate, being adaptable to the client's situation and needs.

The
DMO Aetna dental insurance is available for the members of the Dental
Maintenance Organization. The service has many advantages, the most
important of which is the possibility to use the service of a primary
care dentist or PCD. As for the other insurance plans from Aetna,
information is plentiful. Although the number of plans is very large,
the flexibility is the number one advantage in the choice you have to
make.

The within network plan has several features including a
basic and preventive service. With this Aetna dental insurance variant,
employees can enjoy a wide coverage of health services with the
possibility to reduce costs through bonuses.

The members of
such a plan do not need any type of referral when visiting a dental
service provider of their choice. In case deductibles are involved, the
company allows one to choose from several options.

Hybrid plans
are one other kind of Aetna dental insurance that enables the
combination of features from different insurance programs. The
paperwork is pretty reduced and the annual costs for this insurance are
considered affordable by the majority of users. Normally, before
choosing one Aetna dental insurance plan, it is a good idea to talk to
the insurance broker and get as much information  about the policy as
possible, otherwise you won't know which is the better solution for you.

Aetna
dental insurance is pretty complex, therefore bringing more benefits or
advantages to the user. Although anyone wishes to pay a minimum amount
of money for the largest coverage possible, this is not always possible
or doable. Some policies include specific savings plans, but you need
to know how the Aetna dental insurance is organized around such
benefits.

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LASIK is one of the most advanced forms of eye surgeries, which is done in order to correct hyperopia, astigmatism and myopia. There will be nothing wrong to consider LASIK as one the most exciting surgeries. It corrects refractive errors and can reduce a person’s dependency on contact lenses or glasses. Full form of LASIK is Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis. 

In this refractive LASIK eye surgery either the patient’s cornea is reshaped, or a prosthetic lens is implanted within the cornea. Usually surface laser ablation techniques are adopted for reshaping the cornea. Some of the refractive errors that could be corrected by LASIK include farsightedness, nearsightedness and astigmatism.

Emerging Need in Developing World
Dr.T.V.Rao MD
Email:tvraodoctor2000@yahoo.co.in

The greatest achievements in Medical Science are attributed to developments in diagnosis, treatment and prevention of several diseases. Among several branches of Medicine, Microbiology with fundamentals on infectious diseases, contributed immensely to the prevention and management of many communicable diseases which in turn reduced the mortality and morbidity. The explosion of population in several countries is highly dependent on control of infectious diseases.
Eradication of Small pox in 1978 by united efforts of WHO and several global contributions impressed everyone that we are in for breakthrough. The emergence of AIDS in 1981 made us to know that we are in trouble with emerging infections. After 25 years of AIDS pandemic, continues to be a challenge with few solutions and more hope to live long in with anti retroviral treatment. There are several other similar issues including the drug resistance with a question that drugs which saved several humans in the last half of the century will be thrown out of shelves. And will be replaced by more critical unaffordable new generation of antibiotics and on many occasions with unpredictable end results adding to competitive marketing. Many pharmaceutical industries push on new generation of antibiotics with luring offers to practicing physicians. Inspite of many advances in diagnostics and therapeutic options, the threat of infection looms over the best cared patients.

MICROBIOLOGY TEACHING IN DEVELOPING WORLD

Many schools in the developing world teach Microbiology as a core subject in the middle of undergraduate curriculum and students will be successful with theoretical knowledge and few teachers take interest to transform the theoretic knowledge to practical use of evaluation to control and treat infectious diseases. In the present Indian context under educational regulations Microbiology taught as a Fairy Tale, where we show few things which are not at all relevant to the challenges we are facing in 21st century. This in turn brought apathy among the students. This missing link has got great impact on understanding of several disease conditions and infections contributing to the missed Diagnosis. The in coordination among the Para clinical teachers (Microbiology, Pathology, and Pharmacology) with clinical practioners had made many young Doctors as prescribers and not true physicians. The consequences have lead to uncontrolled and unscientific prescriptions leading to increase cost in patient care and ever growing drug resistance making several drugs ineffective and many clinical laboratories have no fundamental facilities even to diagnose few life threatening conditions. It’s certain that problem of misuse of antibiotics should be tackled with appropriate training at undergraduate level or else we have few drugs left after primary treatments with higher generations of antibiotics. The explosion of medical practioners from all streams leads to unhealthy competition. On many occasions patients with trivial and no infectious conditions are subjected to latest generation of antibiotics. Current periodicals/journals are available to few and impracticable to practice in the third world countries to learn the consequences of misguided knowledge.

ROLE OF PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES

Today we are drawn by market economy. The pharmaceutical industry wishes to push the unnecessary formulations and combinations on helpless patients. National GDP is not taken to consideration in pricing drugs, with self interests of few in the Industry and Medical profession, patients left to pay and suffer with unethical practices.

SOLUTIONS TO TRAIN OUR MEDICAL STUDENTS

It is time to review our present training methods of our undergraduates in Microbiology and Pharmacology. These two subjects need immense revival of methodology of teaching. We should make them clinical Microbiology practioners rather than historians of Microbiology Many topics are taught as a matter of duty and not for real application. We have to delete several unnecessary topics. There should be many topics on implication of antibiotics on health and diseases.
There should be dedicated Microbiology laboratories under guidance of qualified Microbiologists to serve the clinicians or else we are heading to total collisions with microbes. The Medical Microbiology in developing world needs a helping hand from several sections of Medical establishments to improve the Diagnostic and Training facilities. Other wise we lose the advantages we have established in conquering the Microbial diseases in the last century

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