Global Summit :

U.S. to lift cap on intake of medical students .

The maximum intake of students by various U.S. universities at present is 18,000 seats, of which around 16,000 are reserved for the U.S. citizens, leaving only 2,000 for international students.
“If the bill is passed, it will benefit the students from India the most as they constitute about 30 to 40 per cent of the total international students selected to study in the U.S.

Nearly 25,000 British doctors of Indian origin are set to emigrate to India within two to four years, a report said Monday quoting a British medical association.
around 15,000 young Indian-origin doctors undergoing training in different parts of Britain who will return to India and at least 10,000 senior doctors of Indian origin who are retiring from their jobs in the UK are set to return to India," .

Many of them were expected to take up positions in seven new elite medical centres for which the Indian health ministry is looking for quality doctors.
The central government has given the go-ahead to seven AIIMS-type medical institutions in the states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.

Global Summit (Session in Cardiology):

• coronary artery disease occurs at a young age in Indians .Firmingum score should be multiplied by 2 for Indians, for calculating the 10 years risk for coronary artery disease.
• The Indians are 2 to 2.5 times more at risk for heart disease when compared to the western people, and almost 8000 crores worth of GDP will be lost because of morbidity for cardiac disorders in the span of 10 years.
• Body mass index should be less than 23 and Blood Pressure should be less than 130/85 and waist circumference less than 90 cm.
• tobacco causing 1 million deaths per anum.
• per capita calorie intake has increased significantly from 2000 Kcal in 1980 to 3000Kcal in 2009. these calories are coming from carbo & fats.
• with the usage of drugs having long half life - Efavirenz, Tenofovir, and emtricitabine ,we can suppress the HIV to undetectable levels over a full year treatment.