indian/headache

Tata Memorial Hospital, a 629 bed tertiary cancer institute conducts approximately 6000 surgeries per year. Approximately 4000 (4239 in 2015) patients with suspected breast cancers register annually at the hospital and around 2800 breast cancer surgeries are performed every year. Very few studies on

Cholera is an important public health problem worldwide, remaining endemic in most of the developing world at the same time causing outbreaks in areas where lapses in sanitation occur. In 2005, 131 943 cholera cases and 2272 deaths were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) with more

Noting the significant health impact of the use of solid fuels and traditional cooking systems on (public) health indicators, it is imperative to find clean cooking solutions for urban slum dwelling communities. While several efforts have been made to reduce indoor air pollution in India, most

The chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an arbovirus passed to humans by Aedes mosquitoes. Since its description in 1952, CHIKV has caused millions of human infections in Africa, the Indian Ocean islands, Asia, Europe and America (1). In total, since 2013, the epidemic has affected more than 2 million

Background and rational of the study: Novel corona virus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic which stared from Wuhan in China is now a well established pandemic worldwide affecting more than 3 lakh people with more than 15000 mortality. As Italy, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom and USA have taken over from China

BACKGROUND: Despite significant in vitro data that metronidazole is active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) maintained under anaerobic conditions, the utility of this agent has not been evaluated carefully in human disease due to lack of efficacy in murine models of tuberculosis (TB). Unlike

Background: The melanin to be used in this study is a herbal melanin (HM) that has been extracted from the plant Nigella sativa. Nigella sativa was obtained from local market in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. HM has been obtained from seed total powdered extract using standard extraction procedure and has

Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is a leading cause of death in AIDS patients in much of the developing world, responsible for up to 500,000 deaths each year in sub-Saharan Africa alone. Introduction of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has reduced the number of cases of cryptococcal meningitis in the