During the last decade, great progress has been made in minimally invasive endoscopic techniques. For pancreatic pseudocysts (PPCs), endoscopic drainage has become the first-line therapeutic option. Recent advances in therapeutic endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-related techniques have focused on EUS-guided transmural drainage, which is now replacing the conventional endoscopy-guided transmural drai...

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that they begin to believe that the field has indeed reached far and by the best application of their knowledge, they will help alleviate suffering. As things stand, it takes decades of medical practice to appreciate the incompleteness of the accumulated knowledge and the problems thereof, awakening the healer in him through a selfjourney, rather late in life. Aims and ob jec t ives of the phys...

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G l o b a l I m p o r t a n c e o f H e a l t h C o n d i t i o n To d a y : Diarrheal disease is estimated to cause 2 million deaths in the developing world each year; the vast majority of those are among children younger than 2 years. Currently, 1 out of every 200 children who contract diarrhea will die of its consequences, including particularly dehydration. Almost all of these deaths could ...

C h r o m o p h o r e s o f C p h y c o c y a n i n a n d phycoerythrοc y a n i n h a v e b e e n c h e m i c a l l y m o d i f i e d by r e d u c t i o n t o r u b i n s , b l e a c h i n g , p h o t o i s o m e r i z a t i o n , o r p e r t u r b a t i o n w i t h b u l k y s u b s t i t u e n t s . P i g m e n t s c o n t a i n i n g m o d i f i e d c h r o m o p h o r e s , o r h y b r i d ...

H e a l t h C o n d i t i o n : In the mid-1970s, a Bangladeshi woman had more than six children on average, which—in combination with poor nutrition and lack of access to quality health services—jeopardized the health of both the woman and her children. Beyond the health impact, high fertility and rapid population growth represented a major constraint to the country’s economic development and ...