The pain resulted from immunizations can lead to preprocedural anxiety in the future, needle fears and health care avoidance behaviors, including non adherence with vaccination schedules (Taddio, e...
The pricing you charge for your clinical services is one of the most important technical decisions you will ever make in your practice. The first thing we have to remember is that we are not shopke...
The spleen is the most common solid organ injured in blunt abdominal trauma due to motor vehicle accident than penetrating trauma. The current nonoperative paradigm in adults was stimulated by the ...
Cancer is a leading cause of death in Australia. Its increasing incidence and prevalence predicts that by age 85 one in two Australians will face a cancer diagnosis. Improved diagnostics and treatm...
Dental prostheses and impressions may prove a hazard to the dentist and dental assistant who handle them after removal from the teeth. Good cross infection control is essential both in the dental o...
Emergency contraception(EC) refers to methods that women can use to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sexual intercourse, method failure or incorrect use. Unwanted pregnancy followed by unsafe ab...
Partogram as a single inexpensive tool to provide a continuous pictorial overview of labour. Most partograms have three distinct sections where observations are entered on maternal condition, foeta...
Human life daily exposed too many different factors, which include among others living with the microorganism. Some are for life necessary and essential, but there are some types of microorganisms ...
Vitamin C or ascorbic acid is essential to human body but available only from diet. It is known for its antioxidant and healing properties, among others. Despite its broad availability in fruits an...
Now-a-days, children used to suffer recurrently with cold, bronchitis & other respiratory infections one after another in spite of all care, management & treatment. It may be because of improper ca...
Piezoelectric device or piezosurgery device was originally developed for the atraumatic cutting of bone by way of ultrasonic vibrations and as an alternative to the mechanical and electrical instru...
Laser (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) surgery uses an intensely hot, precisely focused beam of light to remove or vaporize tissue and control bleeding in a wide variety of...
Impacted tooth can be defined as the intraosseous position of the tooth after the expected time of eruption. A large number of completely impacted teeth may be retained in jaw without any symptom. ...
Type 2 diabetes mellitus has had proponents proposing a genetic causation, others preferring to consider this adult-onset disease as having its origins in foetal life. The Maltese island population...
Ozone is a form of alternative medicine treatment that purports to increase the amount of oxygen through the introduction of ozone into the body. It is an allotropic form of oxygen, which is succes...
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as "glucose intolerance with onset or first detected during pregnancy". There are various risk factors for the development of GDM. One of the most imp...
Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by progressive nervous system dysfunction. These disorders result from the gradual and progressive loss of neural cells, leading to nervous system dysfu...
Female condoms help curb the spread of HIV/ AIDS/ STIs and unwanted pregnancy only if they are used correctly and consistently. As this study revealed poor use of female condoms and shortages of pr...
Testicular cancer presents real challenges due to its unique descriptive epidemiology and relatively unknown etiology. The social and epidemiological importance of testicular tumors has grown with ...
Traditional knowledge related to the use of natural resources including medicinal plants has been recognized as one of the important assets inherited through generation by the local communities. Su...