Recently added articles from Indian Journal of Medical Research:
Know your risk: but how?
Sep 01, 2008; ... This years' World Heart Day theme, "Know your risk," being promoted by the World Heart Federation is critical for challenging the rising epidemic of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Like many developed countries during the last century, developing countries are seeing an alarming increase in the ...
Pathogenesis of senile diabetes
Sep 01, 2008; ... The first time in 1898, Bernhard Von Naunyn distinguished three types of DM: the juvenile, the senile and the organic ones in his book entitled "Der Diabetes Mellitus1". Since then the distinction of various types of DM had been maintained on the basis of the clinical characteristics and the age ...
Emotional stress & male infertility
Sep 01, 2008; ... Infertility imposes a major psychological burden on patients. It affects an estimated 10-15 per cent of couples, and in roughly half of these cases the defect can be traced to the male1. A large portion of these men is infertile because of abnormalities in sperm parameters. Paradoxically, the ...
Insecticide treated nets - technological & operational challenges
Sep 01, 2008; ... Mosquito nets treated with pyrethroid insecticides repel, disable and/or kill mosquitoes on contact They provide personal protection to individual users, but when used by a high proportion of people in a community they have been shown to avert around half the number of malaria cases1-2 ....
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC): the bug in our backyard
Sep 01, 2008; ... Escherichia coli is one of the members of the family Enterobacteriaceae, which resides as normal gut microflora in humans and otìier animals. Certain subsets of this species have acquired virulence genes that enable them to cause diarrhoeal and other extraintestinal diseases. Based on the nature ...