Today I would like to share my experience as a clinician in a so-called "emergency and residential" children's home, welcoming children and adolescents until they come of age. It was only in the af...
The recent trend of urban sprawl in the United States has resulted in a demand for alternatives. Long commutes and automobile centered lifestyles leave less time to exercise, increase air pollution...
The positive feedback from pharmacists, doctors and nurses across the country has been encouraging as we continue to strive to provide useful rapid references to all medical, pharmacy and nursing s...
The traditional treatment for brain cancer includes surgery, Radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The neurosurgeon usually plans the surgery by utilizing two Dimensional MRI images. It is difficult to de...
Diphtheria is an acute infectious disease caused by toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae. It is Characterized by sore throat, low grade fever, and an adherent membrane on the tonsils, p...
This Book will be a very helpful tool to understand the Blood Lead Levels and its relation with various biochemical activities of Humans in general and children in particular. Widespread use of Pb ...
Dental pain is a significant health problem which negatively affects the lives of millions of people worldwide and induces huge societal costs. The pain is often described as "unbearable" or "the w...
This study was conducted in Department of Pharmacology in association with Department of General Surgery in Mahatma Gandhi hospital, Dr. S. N. Medical College, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, over a period of ...
Female sterilization was once the mainstay of long term contraception before the advent of long acting reversible contraception (LARC). There has been anecdotal reports of its uptake, especially in...
In today's era of dentistry, patients are opt to conserve their natural teeth rather than to go for extraction. Non-Carious cervical tooth defects contribute to a major concern. Their diagnosis and...
The Nutrition Wing, Ministry of Health Pakistan has fully committed to flour fortification as a valuable approach to anemia prevention and control therefore it has initiated a National Wheat Flour ...
Ratites can be classified into four orders and five families. The most common species of ratites are ostriches, emus, rheas, kiwis, and cassowaries. Ratites are differing from other avian species b...
Mental retardation has been recently called by the American Psychiatric Association" intellectual disability" despite that World Health Organization is still using the term "Mental retardation" in ...
Although fascinating insights have evolved within tribal communities into their ethnic medicine, their applications are largely based on empirical evidence. In order to scientifically determine the...
The main principle of the automated blood analyzers is to get the quantity (count) of different blood components (parameters) in the peripheral blood samples. Additionally, in case of Sysmex KX-21 ...
Colonoscopy is the gold standard to detect colorectal neoplasm. There have been multiple attempts to improve diagnostic accuracy partly by image improvement and one of them is narrow band imaging (...
When the effects of one drug change due to the presence of another drug/herbal product/medicine, food, drink etc. this is termed as drug interaction. The result can be injurious if the interaction ...
PCOS is the most common endocrine disease among women of reproductive age and the prevalence of PCOS is 5%-15% based on diagnostic criteria that associated with reproductive and metabolic disorders...
Ethiopia's ruminant livestock population is the largest in Africa and 10th in the world. They are important components of the livestock sub sector and are sources of cash income and play a vital ro...
The Blood is comprised of fluid and solids. The fluid part, called plasma, is made of water, salts, and protein. Over portion of your blood is plasma. The strong piece of your blood contains red pl...