Jorawer Singh, Chandigarh, August 22, 2009: The department of Urology at PGI Chandigarh organized “Refresher course and live workshop on management on Overactive bladder” on August 22, 2009. Prof Vinay Sakhuja, Dean of the institute inaugurated the one-day CME program in the morning. Overactive bladder (OAB) refers to symptom complex of having to pass urine repeatedly and urgently, day and night. This problem is prevalent in both, men and women of all age groups and tremendously affects the day-to-day working at home / work-place adversely leading to poor quality of life. Sometimes, these symptoms may be manifestation of other internal diseases as well.
The Faculty members of the urology department in association with 2 other eminent faculties from Pune and Hyderabad conducted the scientific program. OAB was discussed in length from basics through evaluation & initial management to treatment of difficult cases. The practical problems in our country, i.e. lack of awareness among the general public as well as the care-providers despite a high incidence (~20%) of such problems in the society, were emphasized.
Botulinum toxin has been in use for management of neuromuscular diseases and cosmetic procedures for enhancing the facial outlook. It has now found a place in the alleviating the suffering of patients with OAB. Once injected in the bladder, the effects last for months. The actual operative technique of Injection of Botulinum toxin A into the bladder in two cases who were refractory to medical treatment were live telecasted (from OT) to the participants.
The program was highly appreciated by 70 odd participants (urologists, gynecologists and general surgeons) from the Tricity and adjoining regions. Dr Mandal (HOD Urology) emphasized the institute’s role in dissipating recent developments in medical science among the medical professionals as well as being frontrunner in epidemiological and molecular research, with the idea to improve comprehensive care of this disease at all levels. The Organizing Secy. Dr Mayank Mohan Agarwal is a member of the panel of National Body dealing with formulating guidelines for management of OAB.
is that spending cnllrooted by women’s wants adds up to 85% of every dollar spent by consumers and this goes for all levels of spending from necessities to luxury goods. (Source: Oprah Winfrey’s Zero XY Generation network, abbreviated “Oxygen”.)Spending is lots more fun than that nasty “earning” stuff.Now that the 4:52 PM distraction has been disposed of, the problems created by a feminized schooling industry can be squarely addressed. A whole generation of teachers (dominated by women) has been indoctrinated in the nonsense of the now long-discredited Sadker studies and Mary Pipher’s “Ophelia” propaganda. These teachers are all too commonly trained to see girls as a mission and boys as a problem. “If only boys would behave like girls,” they sigh as they plot to gang up with a school psychologist to pressure some boy’s parents into doping the child into a Ritalin stupor. In my abcedarian opinion, attention deficit is less a disorder among schoolboys than is attention-keeping deficit disorder is among schoolmarms. (I’d like to see a study in which the amphetamine derived drugs are administered to teachers and the in-class boredom of schoolboys subsequently measured!)Boys going on to college find an even stronger institutional headwind aimed against them. Spurred on by womanfirsters, especially of the feminist faction, too many state-run colleges require professors to puff up the “contributions of women” in their general education classes. Along with that, the past actions of men are routinely denigrated even though without the deeds of men there would be no universities. Worse, are the requirements that everyone take what on my campus is widely known as “white men are evil” courses as part of their general education program. Wow. There’s a demotivator for boys. Add in the Title IX hypocrisies of closing men’s sports and opening a campus women’s center (conquered by the womens studies department’s feminists, of course) and the result is a man-hostile campus. “Duh-uh!” as a high-school age boy might say.I’m advising my high school age nephews to seriously consider an apprenticeship in the trades instead of subjecting themselves to the increasingly nasty finishing-school-for-girls that today’s colleges are morphing into.