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World Cancer Day- Close the care Gap, everyone deserves access to Cancer Care

World Cancer Day- Close the care Gap, everyone deserves access to Cancer Care

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PROGESTERONE TEST, YOUR IMPORTANT HORMONE IN INFERTILITY…

PROGESTERONE TEST, YOUR IMPORTANT HORMONE IN INFERTILITY…

Progesterone test is a blood test measuring the level of hormone called progesterone. It’s very important in pregnancy. Progesterone helps control your period, prepares your body to support a fertilised egg.

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Unfolding The Ultimate COVID Test - AG InstaLume - The High Throughput Rapid RT-LAMP Test Kit...

ICMR APPROVED AG INSTALUME - THE RAPID MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TEST KIT FOR COVID-19...AG InstaLume is the best option for Airports, religious places, conventio...

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Feel the easiest way of testing with high performance.Mispa i3 -  Fully Automatic Specific Protein Analyser

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LOW DOSE ASPIRIN FOR COVID-19 & CARDIOVASCULAR PROTECTION

COVID-19 has basically, very high infection rate & mortality, with serious complications such as heart injury & blood clotting. Though cardiac dysfunctions are observed in COVID-19 patients, exact mechanism of cardiac dysfunction remains unclear.

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SCRUB TYPHUS INFECTION IN INDIA, HOW SERIOUS IT IS?

Recently, mystery fever, Scrub typhus, was reported from different parts of UP, claiming over 40 lives, mostly children. Again, few cases were reported in Thiruvananthapuram early this week.

 Scrub typhus is a vector-borne zoonotic disease with the potential of causing life-threatening febrile infection in humans. The disease is caused by a Gram-negative bacterium, Orientia tsutsugamushi, and is transmitted by the larval stage of mites (“chiggers”) in the family Trombiculidae

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DO WE NEED THIRD VACCINE BOOSTER DOSE FOR COVID-19? Answer to the question of efficacy of 3rd dose remains divided among experts, though chairman of SII, Cyrus Poonawalla, proposed 3rd dose for their vaccine, after 6 months of second dose. Opinion of community of epidemiologists, biologists, virologists & noted COVID-19 experts differ.

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*THE MILK MYTH’ – IS COW’S MILK GOOD OR BAD FOR YOU?*

Cow’s milk had been considered as a complete food from time immemorial & good source of calcium, promotes the development of strong teeth & bones.

 There is a strong school of thought, called The Milk Myth, which establishes that present milk source actually increases calcium loss from your bones. Research undertaken by team of Swedish scientists shows strong link between milk usage with increased mortality, bone fractures & osteoporosis.

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You Become What You Surround Yourself With! A mother and a baby camel were lying around under a tree in the zoo. Then the baby camel asked, ‘Why do camels have humps?’ The mother camel said, ‘We are desert animals so we have the humps to store water so we can survive with very little water.’ The baby camel thought for a moment then said, ‘Okay. Why are our legs long and our feet rounded?’ The mama replied, ‘They are meant for walking in the desert.’

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GLOBAL HANDWASHING DAY – ‘SECONDS SAVE LIVES’, CLEAN YOUR HANDS RIGHTLY Global Handwashing Day is observed today, 15th October, to improve handwashing habits of all, with soap, as an easy, effective & affordable mode to prevent infective diseases & save millions of lives. This year theme is “Our Future is at Hand – Let’s Move Forward Together.” This day has tremendous significance with respect to the COVID pandemic, still pervading the world affecting millions.

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HAPTOGLOBIN – THE BIOMARKER FOR HAEMOLYTIC ANAEMIA

Haptoglobin is a protein produced by the liver that the body uses to clear free hemoglobin (found outside RBCs) from circulation. It’s an iron-containing protein complex that transports oxygen throughout the body.  It functions to bind the free plasma hemoglobin, which allows degradative enzymes to gain access to the hemoglobin, at the same time preventing loss of iron through the kidneys & protecting the kidneys from damage by hemoglobin. Haptoglobin-hemoglobin complex is quickly cleared from the bloodstream & removed from the body by your liver.

Haptoglobin normal range in serum is 32-205 mg/dL.  If your levels are lower, it means you may have haemolytic anemia, in which your RBCs are prematurely destroyed. An undetectable level is almost always due to haemolytic anemia. Autoimmune haemolytic anemia where RBCs are breaking apart or being destroyed prematurely. A condition is considered idiopathic when its cause is unknown. Such chronic intravascular haemolysis causes persistently low haptoglobin concentration.

Decreased levels of haptoglobin are also found in sickle cell anemia & thalassemia, liver disease, congenital deficiencies, acute malaria, severe liver disorder. Haemolytic anemia is a disorder that happens when your RBCs are destroyed faster than they can be replaced.

Besides, regular strenuous exercise may cause sustained low haptoglobin, presumably from low-grade haemolysis.

Elevated haptoglobin levels are seen in diseases associated with elevated ESR such as infection, trauma, hepatitis, amyloidosis, collagen diseases, coronary diseases, TB, Hodgkin’s disease, nephritic syndrome, lymphoma & leukaemia, obstructive or biliary diseases as well as prolonged steroid use.

Clinicians will ask for the test when you have symptoms like pale skin, cold hands & feet, jaundice, or yellowing of the skin & whites of the eyes, upper abdominal pain, dizziness, light headedness, shortness of breath, or abnormal heartbeat etc.

Jaundice occurs as a result of high bilirubin, the yellow pigment that forms when RBCs are broken down & eliminated from the body. When RBCs are destroyed at an increased rate, it can lead to a build-up of bilirubin in the blood, causing skin or eyes to appear yellow. Higher levels of bilirubin can also indicate gallstones, the hard deposits formed in the gallbladder obstructing the bile ducts.

TAILPIECE: Agappe, your best partner in diagnostics, offers you with quality as well as highly affordable reagent in fully automatic clinical chemistry analyzers & Nephelometry platform, such as Mispa i2 & Mispa i3 protein analyzers.

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Own Your Life

Once a horse came galloping quickly down a village road with a man on it. It seemed as though the man had somewhere important to go.

Another man, who was standing alongside the road, shouted, "Where are you going?" and the man on the horse replied, "I don't know! Ask the horse!"

This story has a powerful meaning behind it. The horse symbolizes our habit energy. The story explains the way we usually live, at the mercy of our old habit energies which have been established not by our intentional actions, but by our surroundings and mindless activity.

The horse is pulling us along, making us run here and there and most of the time we don't even know why. But as much as we run, it gets us nowhere. We need to learn how to take back the reigns and let the horse know who's the boss.

Live mindfully. Own your life. You are entirely up to you!

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WORLD VEGETARIAN DAY – VEGANISM, THE IDEAL WAY FOR PEACE & SERINITY IN LIFE

World Vegetarian Day is celebrated on October 1st, to raise awareness about the health & humanitarian benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle. October month is dedicated to vegetarians.

The preponderance & benefits of vegetarianism are widely discussed these days & more people are shifting to healthier, eco-friendly, plant-based diet to remain healthier.

World-famous stalwarts such as Newton, Henry Ford, Benjamin Franklin, George Bernard Shaw were vegetarians. Opting vegetarianism has many advantages for cardiac health. Vegetables rich in fibres, nutrients, antioxidants are best antidote to fight cancer.

If we can convince the world that vegetarianism & veganism are the best remedy for health & peaceful living, there can be lot of relief from the increasing diseases & cruelty of human beings to animals. There is a strong theory ‘You are what you eat’; it’s true in a way. The nature of food largely influences your innate nature. You can just observe nature, you can perceive calmness, serenity, stamina of vegetarian animals like horse, deer; at the same time experience the ferocity & brutality of carnivorous animals. Those who consume more red meat also will have similar traits by nature, depending on the regularity of the diet.

Vegetarian diet promotes healthier heart, keep away diabetes or cancers such as gut cancer, longer life span apart from certain diseases like bird flu, salmonella, poultry/fish born disorders etc.

All our unrefined fruits, nuts, vegetables, whole grains, fruits, vegetables, beans, peas, nuts, seeds are excellent storehouses of digestive fibres, increasing the roughage content in our food & balancing body weight. Vegan diets naturally tend to reduce your calorie intake helping weight loss, help fight against prostate, breast, colon cancers & probiotic-rich whole foods help reduce symptoms of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis.

As per reports, vegetarians may be up to one-third less likely to die or be hospitalized for heart disease, it reduces cancer risk. It will reduce chances of type 2 diabetes, blood pressure, promotes bone health & decrease asthma symptoms, compared to non-veg diet.

TAILPIECE:  It’s time to contemplate what we are eating & greet a meat-free day. Veganism is a philosophy & lifestyle which seeks to eliminate all sorts of exploitation & cruelty towards animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose; & by extension, promotes the development & value animal-free alternatives for the benefit of mankind & living creatures.

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MISPA VIVA – SYMBOL OF QUALITY

Mispa Viva, true semi- automated biochemistry analyzer (blood testing machine) from Agappe, is a symbol of superior technology & convenience, designed to deliver high accuracy, quality results with least turnaround time & low maintenance. It’s a compact, simple, reliable analyzer capable to perform tests on whole blood, serum, plasma, cerebrospinal fluid & urine as sample. Machine guides you with simple user-friendly step by step instructions to ensure consistent results on which user can rely upon. VIVA is designed to offer the best performance to laboratories looking toward achieving highest efficiency with optimal operative cost for the 60000 medium & smaller laboratories from tier two tier & three cities of our country & developing markets across the globe.

In general, semi-auto biochemistry analyzer measures biochemical indexes by analysing blood & other body fluid, then combines with other clinical information, to help diagnose disease, evaluate body functions, identify disease gene & determine the norm for future therapy. They use photometric & colorimetric technologies for measurements.

Mispa VIVA is a smart, embedded system with 5.7” TFT LCD colour display with popup keypad with better menu clarity, better visibility of reaction curve & data & you can switch off it at any stage you are in. VIVA has an exclusive user-friendly software to save time & offers unparalleled convenience. It employs energy matched filter from Europe to ensures long filter life, offers equal & stable intensity at all wavelengths for accurate estimation of test parameters, high degree of optimization, precise & accurate results.

VIVA has auto light dimming function to ensure extended life for the lamp & significant power saving as well as low maintenance expense. Besides, VIVA owns direct access key to test menu, any-time-ready for work, eliminating the need to memorize test menu number & offering great convenience. Accuracy enhancing features like high precision of 0.0001 resolution & excellent reproducibility are its integral part.  Aspiration air gap & auto empty function are provided after each sample to emphasise enhanced accuracy to rule out any carry over effect.

VIVA offers calculated tests option. It has 5000 Test Results memory, 18000 result memory, effective retrieval system by date, patient ID or test name & enhanced storage for convenience. Viva has unique QC statistics displayed with Levy Jennings control chart with Westgard algorithm for high quality reporting. Special flow cell ensures clear light passage for accurate, reproducible results, dual operating channel flow cell & cuvette offering unmatched accuracy economically.

TAILPIECE: When there is a national demand of 20,000 semi-auto analyzers in India, mostly imported, Agappe proudly celebrated the birth of 10,000th Mispa VIVA in this month, a true Make-In-India initiative supporting Atmanirbhar Bharat drives of our Govt. Yes, quality is not an act, it’s a habit.

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WORLD HEART DAY – ‘USE HEART TO CONNECT EVERY HEART’

World Heart Day is celebrated annually on September 29, to increase the awareness of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) & its potential menace; it’s promoted by World Heart Federation in collaboration with WHO.

Globally, heart disease cases nearly doubled from 271 million in 1990 to 523 million in 2019 & heart disease deaths rose from 12.1 million to 18.6 million, mostly from ischemic heart disease & stroke, claiming around 32% of deaths in toto.

As per reports, Global Burden of Disease study estimate of age-standardised CVD death rate of 272 per 100 000 population in India is higher than the global average of 235 per 100000 population. CVD risk appeared to be highest in South India including Goa. Smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity are the underlying reasons.

This burden can be attributed to underlying genetic predisposition, metabolic deregulation, cardiomyopathy & increasing consumption of red meats/saturated fats & trans fats/junk foods as well as higher stress in sedentary lifestyle. It’s estimated that people with heart failure lose nearly 10 years of life compared to those without heart failure.

In India, certain facets of the CVD epidemic are real causes of great concern, owing to its accelerated occurrence, early age of disease onset, the higher fatality rate. The epidemiological transition from primarily infectious disease to noncommunicable diseases has occurred over a short time. In India, more than 17 Lakh people die every year due to heart diseases & by 2030, the figure is expected to increase with 2.3 crore. Around 26 percent of total deaths in India occur due to non-communicable diseases, largely referred to the heart diseases & diabetes.

Fortunately, the principal causes of CVD are modifiable factors like lack of exercise, smoking & a poor unbalanced diet. Economic status of countries is heavily impacted by CVD, due to increased cost of treatment, Loss of productivity as well as long absences from work. It’s our prime duty to disseminate the risks & health tips for better cardiac health.

TAILPIECE: This year’s World Heart Day theme is ‘USE HEART TO CONNECT EVERY HEART’. Encourage your heart to connect with every heart, heart to connect people with CVDs, heart to build community, heart to know the risks of CVDs. Remember not to break heart, but to win more & more hearts.

You can read Agappe Techagappe magazine to know more about CVD at

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WORLD RABIES DAY – VACCINATION PREVENTS RABIES 100%

World Rabies Day is observed to create awareness on rabies prevention. It’s observed globally to mark the death anniversary of Louis Pasteur, who developed the first rabies vaccine.

The scare for preventive vaccination is galore in the communities still leading to vaccine hesitancy & the misconceptions about vaccination. It’s our duty to share the facts to ensure post-exposure prophylaxis, to protect everyone & to eliminate the menace of rabies by 2030.  Mortality & morbidity is seen in humans & animals, but the impact is highest in human beings.

This year’s World Rabies Day theme is: “Rabies: Facts, not Fear”.  The theme helps us to emphasise the necessity of vaccination. We need to convince the fact that 99% of dog bites are fatal, yet it’s a 100% preventable disease through vaccination.

On a dog/cat/bat bite, wounds should be washed & flushed immediately with soap & water for 10–15 minutes. If soap not available, flush with water alone. This is the most effective first-aid treatment against rabies. Wounds be cleaned thoroughly with 70% alcohol/ethanol or povidone-iodine, if available.

The incubation period of rabies ranges from a few days to several months. it is compulsory to start treatment, keep the biting dog/cat under 10 days of observation. Single-dose vaccines are available, but they only provide immunity for a limited period.

Till late 90s, goat brain vaccines were used, which manifested rare reactivities. Modern rabies vaccines are as human diploid cell vaccine, purified Vero cell rabies vaccine, purified chick-embryo cell vaccine and purified duck embryo vaccine, which are very safe. The standard schedule is five doses on days 0, 3, 7, 14 and 30. All modern rabies vaccines can be given to pregnant women or lactating mothers also. Immunosuppressive drugs (steroids, chloroquine, anti-cancer drug) are contraindicated during vaccination.

For all category III bites, Rabies Immunoglobulin (RIG) should be given immediately after the incident. RIG should be infiltrated as much as possible in and around all wounds. After infiltration of the wounds, if there is any remaining RIG, it should be given intramuscularly.

TAILPIECE: Be responsible by vaccinating pet dogs or cats against rabies. Pets and livestock should be vaccinated against rabies at age of 3 months, 9 months, then yearly once.  Puppies, dogs must be given anthelmintic drugs regularly before vaccination. If any animal bites you, keep the animal under observation for 10 days.

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