of the Calcutta University, he went to England for two years of post-graduate study, taking the diplomas of L.R.C.P. and L.R.C.S. of Edinburgh. On his return to India, he leapt into success as a private practitioner. In 1885, he was selected by the late Maharaja Sir Pratap Singh as Chief Medical Officer of Kashmir and the rest of his life was devoted to the service of that State. In spite of th...

The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) recently sanctioned funds worth US$ 165 million for introduction of a pentavalent combination vaccine (containing Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Hepatitis B and Hib antigens) in to the routine immunization program of India(1). This combination vaccine will first be introduced in ten states (Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashm...

In the present study, a survey was carried out for a period of two years from Jan 2005 to Dec 2006 on the prevalence and pathology associated with the cestode Amoebotaenia sphenoides in a sample size of 478 birds collected from different localities of Kashmir valley, India. The overall prevalence rate of the cestode was found to be 6.69% (32/478) and annual occurrence rates of 6.8% (16/233) and...

BACKGROUND The Kashmir earthquake also known as South Asia earthquake, hit both sides of Jammu & Kashmir on October 8th 2005 and was quite devastating with official toll of deaths being 73,276 in Pakistan Administered Kashmir (POK) and 1,360 deaths in the Indian administered Kashmir. The injured registering on the two sides were around 100,000 and 6,300 respectively. This was followed by a seri...

The re-emergence of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan is a major setback for India's ambitions region. paper elucidates implications resurgence triumph on India. long-standing bilateral relations between India and are analyzed. present threats emanating from Afghanistan, namely possibility security issues brewing up Kashmir, humanitarian crisis, large exodus refugees, examined. Lastly, provid...

Objective. To determine the contribution of neurocysticercosis as a cause for active epilepsy and to establish Neurocysticercosis as major definable risk of epilepsy in our setup. Methods. We conducted a door-to-door survey of 2,209 individuals of Bhore Pind and Bhore Kullian villages in Chattah zone of district Jammu (Jumma and Kashmir, Northwest India) to identify patients with symptomatic ep...

The use of Vitex negundo Linn. (Family: verbenaceae) is well documented in ayurveda and traditional Indian system of medicine for variety of diseases and liver ailments. The aim of the study was to investigate liver protective efficacy of a standardized bioactive fraction (SF) from Vitex negundo Linn. against acetaminophen (APAP) and galactosamine (GalN) hepatotoxicity. SF was tested at doses 1...

1Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS-INRA, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier SupAgro, Place Viala, 34060 Montpellier, France 2Department of Botany, University of Jammu, Jammu , Jammu and Kashmir 180-006, India 3Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, BGU, 84990 Sede-Boqer Campus, Israel 4Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Univers...

results obtained by artificial pneumothorax, resection of ribs for empyema, thoracoplasty for chronic pulmonary phthisis and partial pneumonectomy (2). Still even now, in the presence of acute phthisis, surgery is almost powerless. In glandular tuberculosis the case however is very different. In the plains of India, bovine tuberculosis is relatively uncommon, only about 3 per cent, of the slaug...

Tuberculosis of breast is a rare disease which is difficult to differentiate from carcinoma of breast. The involvement of breast can be primary or secondary to some focus in body. A case of secondary tuberculosis of right breast in a 21-year-old female from Kashmir, India, is being reported. Presentation was as a painless discharging sinus of right breast. A tubercular foci of rib was the affec...