On the first day, God created the dog and said:

'Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years.'

The dog said: 'That's a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I'll give you back the other ten?' So God agreed.

On the second day, God created the monkey and said:

'Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I'll give you a twenty-year life span.'

The monkey said: 'Monkey tricks for twenty years? That's a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the Dog did?'

And God agreed.

On the third day, God created the cow and said:

'You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer's family. For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years.'

The cow said: 'That's kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years.. How about twenty and I'll give back the other forty?'

And God agreed again.

On the fourth day, God created humans and said:

'Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I'll give you twenty years.'

But the human said: 'Only twenty years? Could you possibly give me my twenty, the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?'

'Okay,' said God, 'You asked for it.'

So that is why for our first twenty years we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves. For the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family.. For the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren. . And for the last ten years we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.

Life has now been explained to you.

Dheeraj Dubey,

(S.Y.D.Pharm.)

A worried woman went to her gynecologist and said,

\\'Doctor, I have a serious problem and desperately need your help! My baby is not even one year old, and I\\'m pregnant again. I don\\'t want kids so close together.

So the doctor said: \\'Ok and what do you want me to do?\\'

She said: \\'I want you to end my pregnancy, and I\\'m counting on your help with this.\\'

The doctor thought for a little, and after some silence he said to the lady: \\'I think I have a better solution for your problem. It\\'s less dangerous for you too.\\'

She smiled, thinking that the doctor was going to accept her request.

Then he continued: \\'You see, in order for you not to have to take care of two babies at the same time, let\\'s kill the one in your arms. This way, you could rest sometime before the other one is born. If we\\'re going to kill one of them, it doesn\\'t matter which one it is. There would be no risk for your body if you chose to kill the one in your arms.

The lady was horrified and said: \\'No doctor! How terrible! It\\'s a crime to kill a child!

‘I agree’, the doctor replied. \\'But you seemed to be ok with it, so I thought maybe that was the best solution. The doctor smiled, realizing that he had made his point.

He convinced the mom that there is no difference in killing a child that\\'s already been born and one that\\'s still in the womb. The crime is the same!!!

Dheeraj Dubey,

(S.Y.D.Pharm.)

Female foeticide is the act of aborting a fetus because it is female. This is a major social problem in India. Social discrimination against women and a preference for sons have been promoted.

It has been six long decades since India gained independence but many Indians are still trapped in age-old traditional beliefs. Here, ‘old beliefs’ imply the mindset of people who still find themselves in the trap of girl-boy inequality. The ‘liberal’ Indian society has failed to transform the other orthodox India. No doubt India is advancing at a fast pace in the field of science and technology, and also in aping of the western culture, but if we look at the grass root level, the picture is not so rosy; it is rather a dark, especially when it comes to how we treat the fairer sex.

According to the decennial Indian census, the sex ratio in the 0-6 age group in India went from 104.0 males per 100 females in 1981, to 105.8 in 1991, to 107.8 in 2001, to 109.4 in 2011. The ratio is significantly higher in certain states such as Punjab and Haryana (126.1 and 122.0, as of 2001)

The status of females in India aptly symbolizes India’s status of being a developing nation – miles away from becoming a developed state. Of course, India deserves to be in this list because here, in this 21st century, the girl child continues to be murdered before she is born. Female foeticide is still prevalent in the Indian society, in fact, it has been a practice for hundreds of years.

Many families put pressure on women to give birth to boy so that he can take family’s name forward, light the funeral pyre and be the bread earner of the family. But these days, are girls less competent than boys? Just look at the results of Board exams or any other competitive exams, girls mostly outshine boys. Women empowerment has led to inundation of females excelling in the corporate world, engineering and medical professions.

The struggle for a girl child starts the day her existence is known in her mother’s womb. The fear and struggle to survive swallow most of the girl’s life even if she is ‘allowed’ to live in this cruel world.

More shocking is the fact that the sinful crime of female foeticide is not only common in rural areas where social discrimination against women, lack of proper education etc. can be considered as reasons behind carrying out such acts, but also the ultra modern, so-called ‘educated’ people living in urban areas and metropolitan cities who are a step ahead in killing the girl child in the womb.

Narrow-minded people do not mind murdering their unborn daughters for the fear of giving huge amounts of dowry at the time of her marriage. Such people, whenever they discover they are going to have a girl child (through illegal sex selection tests), get the foetus aborted. Else they would continue to reproduce till they get a male heir. When price rise is already taking a toll on the standard of living, is it necessary to go in for more than two children irrespective of their gender?

Sidhu Borana

(F. Y.D. Pharm.)

Today a ten year old boy has a blackberry or i-phone and has a account in the social networking sites such as facebook, etc…….When I was ten year old I felt cool with my new color pencils and video games.

The change has occurred rapidly and very drastically .Before anybody can judge its advantages and disadvantages one must know that after food ,water and shelter, social networking sites like facebook, twitter have became the forth basic need of man especially teenagers.

The difference today is that because most people have a presence online, modern communication technologies - social networking sites, texting, instant messaging and so on - are used predominantly to enrich existing friendships, not to seek connections with strangers. That does happen, of course, and can have its own benefits - especially for the socially awkward. Online communication lacks the usual social cues - body language, tone of voice, facial expressions - that we use to gauge the emotional responses of those we speak to. This is partly why adolescents are more open online but the absence of social cues also enables cruelty and degrees of rudeness that are less prevalent in face-to-face communication

The suspicion - and fear - was that young people were becoming addicted to a dark, dangerous online life and their real-world relationships with friends and family would wither and die.

As social networking sites become more popular by the day, the rise of negative social effects within our society also greaten. We will also see our strong relationships diluted to a more superficial and ‘convenient’ type of relationship. Social networking sites have had a huge negative impact on our mental and social health and will continue to do so into the future. It is also now evident that social networking sites facilitate all these problems, and without them they would cease to exist. Therefore it is undeniably true that Facebook, Twitter and the like to do in fact causes more harm than good.

Ershad Beg

(F.Y. D. Pharm.)

Researchers found adults with high of dichlorophenol, a chemical by-product of chlorine in their urine, were upto 80% more likely to have a food allergy. Britain has seen a rise in food allergies in recent years, with upto ten million adults claiming to be unable to eat a variety of foods from milk to mustard, although scientists believe the figure may be exaggerated by the ‘worried well’.

Studies also estimate that four percent of children have a food allergy. A rising number are diagnosed with gut allergies linked to common foods such as cow’s milks, wheat, soya, eggs, celery, kiwi fruit and other fruit and vegetables.

Food allergy can take the form of a sudden life threatening reaction known as anaphylaxis, as well as eczema or an itchy rash. Much of water supply in Britain is chlorinated to kill germs, although experts say it is at much lower levels than in the US. They point out that, for British households atleast, certain common household products are more likely to be sources of dichlorophenol than tap water.

Professor Jeni Colbourne, the chief Inspector of drinking water, said strict regulations in the UK meant dichlorophenol is unlikely to be found in household tap’s. She said its likeliest sources for British consumers were household product impregnated with triclosan, commonly used in lipstick, face washes, toothpaste and kitchen utensils. An anti-bacterial,it can break down to form dichlorophenol.

In a study of 2,211 American adults with the chemical in their urine 411, were found to have a food allergy while 1,016 had an environmental allergy. The research, published in journal of the American college of allergy, Asthma and Immunology, concluded “excessive use of dichlorophenols may contribute to the increasing incidence of food allergies in westernized societies”. “This chemical is commonly found in pesticides and consumer insect and weed control product as well as tap water.”

Lead author Dr.Elina Jerschow added: ‘previous studies have shown that both food allergies and environmental pollution are increasing in US.’ ‘Our study suggests these two trends might be linked, and that increased use of pesticides and other chemicals is associated with a higher prevalence of food allergies.’

Professor Colbourne insisted: Currently in the UK consumer, exposure to dichlorophenol via tap water is considered to be minimal. ‘In the US generally chlorination is known to be less well controlled and relatively high doses of chlorine are used, so it would be reasonable to consider the risk of exposure to be generally higher.‘In UK exposure is more likely to come from non tap water sources’.

Dheeraj Dubey

(S.Y.D.Pharm.)

Ovarian cancer is one of the deadliest types of the illness and half of women diagnosed do not survive beyond five years.

Often it is only detected once it has spread to other organs, at which point there are very few effective treatments available.

But U.S. researchers claim metformin taken by thousands of Britons for diabetes-could more than double survival odds. Their study, published in journal cancer, followed 239 women with ovarian cancer.

This included 73 with diabetes who were taking daily doses of metformin and 178 women not on the drug.

The researchers found that 67% of women on the drug were still alive five years after diagnosis, against 44% of other group. But when they took into account the stage at which each women was diagnosed, they calculated it was even more effective. They estimate women taking the drug are 2.2 times more likely to be alived after five years.

Dr. Viji Shridhar, who led the study at the Mayo clinic in Rochester, Minnesota said that in future the drug could be routinely used for ovarian cancer.

He added, This study opens the door for using metformin in large –scale randomized trials in ovarian cancer which can ultimately lead to metformin being one option for treatment of patient with the disease. Earlier this year the same drug was found to lower the chance of developing breast cancer.

Scientist from University of California in Los Angeles, found middle-aged woman who had taken metformin were 25% less at risk.

A study is now under way to work out how effective the drug is at treating breast cancer.

Researches behind these latest finding want to carry out a similar trial for ovarian cancer. The illness is the fifth commonest cancer in women and there are 6,500 new cases in Britain year, leading to 4,400 deaths.

Dheeraj Dubey

(S.Y.D. Pharm.)

Needle-Free Injections This device delivers a high-velocity jet of liquid that breaches the skin at the speed of sound.

Whether you’re at the doctor’s office or taking medicine at home, future injections could be a lot less painful with this new gadget. Instead of a sterile metal point penetrating your skin, it fires a jet of medicine through your skin at the speed of sound.

It’s similar to a normal syringe, except instead of a needle plunger, it uses a Lorentz force actuator, made from a magnet surrounded by a conductive coil. When a current is turned on, the magnetic field interacts with the current to produce a force. That force kicks a piston, which ejects a drug that has been embedded inside the capsule. The speed of the ejection and the depth it will reach can be controlled by altering the current. To penetrate the skin, the ejection happens at ultra high speeds, almost equivalent to the speed of sound through air. The drug flows through an opening that’s about as wide as a mosquito proboscis.

Researchers led by Ian Hunter and Catherine Hogan tested a prototype device with two different velocities, One can breach the skin and reach deep into tissue, and another can deliver drugs more slowly, so they can be absorbed by the skin. Different people would need different piston velocities. That’s key for this device, because other existing types of jet injectors are limited by their design. They may use a spring-loaded injector, which can only work at one velocity, for instance.

While the supersonic variable-speed delivery is new, it’s hardly the first device to seek elimination of the hated hypodermic needle. Several other alternatives exist, like super-thin micro-needles, as wide as a human hair, and a micro-needle patch, which deliver drugs with no pain and simply dissolve on the skin. But again, those would require a drug-specific design.

For the average trypanophobe, the prospect of sticking oneself with a needle is anathema, so a more universal system like this could improve patient compliance with the doctor’s orders. Plus, the researchers also point out, it could prevent needle-stick injuries by health care workers and others. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says hospital workers accidentally prick themselves 385,000 times per year. Not so with a jet injector.

Ershad Beg

(F.Y.D.Pharm.)

Sleeping ten hours instead of eight is more effective than codeine medicine.

Sleeping for an hour or more extra a night can dramatically improve an individual’s alertness and reduce their sensitively to pain, say scientist.

The study used 18 healthy, pain free-volunteers who were randomly assigned either four nights of their normal sleep pattern or four nights of ten hours in bed.

The American researchers measured daytime sleepiness using the multiple sleep latency test –a standard method used by doctors to diagnose sleep problems in which brain waves, eyes movements, heart rate and muscle tone are measured.

Pain sensitivity was assessed using a heat source. Results showed the extended sleep group slept 1.8 hour more per night than those on a regular sleeping pattern. This was associated with increased day time alertness and significantly less pain sensitivity.

Those getting more sleep were able to keep their finger on a heat source for 25% longer, showing a loss of pain sensitivity.

The findings, published in the journal sleep, also revealed the magnitude of this increase is greater than the effect found in a previous study of 60mg of codeine. The results, combined with data from previous research, suggest increased pain sensitivity in tired people is the result of their underlying sleepiness.

Dr. Jimothy Roerhs, an expert in sleep disorders and their treatment based at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, said, ‘Our results suggest importance of adequate sleep in various chronic pain conditions or in preparation for elective surgical procedures.

‘We were surprised by the magnitude of reduction in pain sensitivity, When compared to the reduction produced by taking codeine’.

Dheeraj Dubey

(S.Y.D.Pharm.)