13 articles in this issue
Palak Goel, Rajesh Kumar, Gajendra Singh Meena, Tulika Singh, Suneela Garg
Context: Menstruation is the process that needs to be managed socially. If it is not managed properly it may interrupt the social expectations. Aims: To study knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding menstrual hygiene among women of 18-45 years age re... see more
Suresh Goyal, Rajendra Chandel, Sunny Malvia
Objective: To find the incidence of dehydration fever in newborn. Method: It is hospital based prospective study at tertiary care level in south Rajasthan and includes all newborns delivered at our hospital during study period of 12 months with birth weig... see more
Yetunde Olubusayo Tagurum, Kingsley Mayowa Okonoda, Chundung Asabe Miner, Danjuma A Bello, David John Tagurum
BACKGROUND: Technostress is a general feeling of anxiety and negative impact on thoughts, behaviours, attitudes and body when a person is expected to deal with technology. It can lead to poor job performance and decreased productivity among workers. Copin... see more
Rouchelle Tellis
Introduction: Urinary tract infections (UTI) caused by multidrug resistant bacteria necessitate the use of broad spectrum expensive antibiotics, which enhance antibiotic pressure. It would be ideal to look at older less commonly prescribed antibiotics lik... see more
Shivani Sood, Rajni Kaushik, Anchana Gulati, Brij Sharma, Pranav Sood, Pooja Chauhan, Ganga Rawat
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is defined as reflux of gastric contents into mouth resulting in restrosternal burning sensation. Aims: This prospective study was undertaken with the aim to assess the cytological spectrum in esophageal brushings ta... see more
Haitham Juma, Sean Welsh, Cesar Reis, Haley Reis, Josileide Gaio
Twenty-two volunteer clerical workers entered this pilot study. They were screened with regard to inclusion and exclusion criteria, which consisted of nail length and presence or absence of artificial nails. A questionnaire was administered regarding a po... see more
Anup Sreedharan Nair, Thazhath Mavali Ramachandran, Prajob Prasad Geevarghese
Background and aims: Hepatitis C is a major cause of liver related morbidity and mortality. Prevalence of HCV infection in India has been variously estimated as 0.9 to 1.9%. With the advent of DAAs, the treatment has been revolutionized with more than 95%... see more
Kuldeep Singh, Kamal Kachhawa, Rajni Bagdi, Seema Tamrakar
Background: Hematopoietic system is another organ seriously affected by tuberculosis. The hematological changes sometimes act as useful factors providing a clue to diagnosis, assessing the prognosis, indicating the complication of underlying infection as ... see more
Tolulope O Afolaranmi, Zuwaira I Hassan, Ofakunrin O Akinyemi, Ashaolu J Oluwakayode, Ugwu C Oluchukwu, Ajayi P Rotimi, Moses P Chingle
Background: The incidence of adolescent pregnancy worldwide is on the increase and constitutes a major public health challenge.About 16 million women 15-19 years of age give birth each year and this account for 11% of all births worldwide with 95% occurri... see more
Anil Sahebrao Pungle, Prashant Munjamkar, L. O. Mahato
Background: The dimensions and body proportions of human beings are widely variable with respect to age, sex and racial groups. All the parts of the body show biological variation. This fact can be utilized to predict the size of one part of the body usin... see more
Pooja Chauhan, Neelam Gupta, Kavita Mardi, Vinay Shanker, Anita Negi, Shivani Sood, Ganga Sharma
Aim: To evaluate the efficacy and diagnostic accuracy of cytological techniques in evaluation of noninfectious vesiculobulloous lesions of skin. Materials and methods: Tzanck smear prepared from vesiculobullous lesions. Giemsa stainining of cytology smear... see more
Kalpana Devi Venkatesan, Senthil Chander, Ananthi B, Sopia Abigail, Kalavathy Victor
Background: Enterococci are the most common cause of healthcare associated urinary tract infections. The frequency of isolation of Enterococci from urinary tract of hospitalized patients has risen. Enterococcus is considered as an important nosocomial pat... see more
Patrick SR Marak, Bhagyabati Devi, Monaliza Lyngdoh, Th. Suraj Singh, Preeti Jane Picardo, Akash Roy
Background: Several risk factors like age, sex, hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidaemia, smoking and alcohol intake have been previously been associated with stroke. However, differences have been postulated between the risk factors and the type of stroke... see more