PESIMSR is a well established Medical College with an attached 750 Bed Hospital containing state-of-the-art facilities providing wonderful work experience and training opportunities. India, the world’s biggest democracy, ranks eleventh in the world in terms of the size of its economy with the GNP equivalent to US$471 billion, but ranks 162nd in the world in terms ofGNP per capita (US$460). India is now going through an epidemiological transition, where infectious diseases are receding as causes of adult morbidity and mortality, whereas non-infectious diseases are assuming menacing proportions. The risk factors associated with changing lifestyle have increased the mortality rate because of coronary heart diseases, diabetes, hypertension and neurological disorders.
Astellas Pharma Inc. and Pfizer Inc. announced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) to update the US product labeling for Xtandi (enzalutamide) capsules to include new clinical data versus bicalutamide from the TERRAIN study. The data demonstrate improvement in radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) who were treated with enzalutamide compared to patients who were treated with bicalutamide.

