BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Hepatitis E virus (HEV) causes acute viral hepatitis. Majority of the documented studies on hepatitis E have been focused on the incidence of this disease in northern and south central India. Limited data are available on HEV infection among acute sporadic hepatitis cases in north western India. The present study was undertaken to investigate the contribution of hepatiti...

SETTING States of Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, and Chennai (capital of Tamil Nadu State), India. OBJECTIVE To assess the availability, price and affordability of beclomethasone and salbutamol inhalers in five Indian states using a standardised methodology. DESIGN Data on the availability and price of two essential medicines for asthma, beclomethasone (50 microg/dose) and s...

Convolvulus pluricaulis Choisy, commonly known as "Shankhpushpi", is an ayurvedic medicinal plant recommended as a brain tonic to promote intellect and memory, eliminate nervous disorders and to treat hypertension. Because of increasing demand of the drug, this plant species has been over-exploited. As a consequence, many unrelated plants are being sold by the crude drug dealers in India in the...

Background: In India, first confirmed outbreak of Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) was reported in 2011. Since then till now clusters of outbreaks were reported from various parts of Rajasthan. A team from National Centre for Disease Control, New Delhi, investigated the CCHF outbreak in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, and reporting here their result. Methodology: A team conducted a CCHF outbreak inve...

The camel is practically symbolic for western arid region of Rajasthan. This animal has the immense contribution to livelihood Raika pastoral community who a long relationship with this animal. Raikas followed their own traditional practices in all aspects rearing including healthcare since time immemorial. Therefore, present study was designed document and appraise ethno-veterinary by cure imp...

1 Research Scholar, Suresh Gyan Vihar University JAIPUR (RAJASTHAN), INDIA 2 Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Kota KOTA (RAJASTHAN), INDIA _______________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Software refactoring is the process of changing the code without changing its behavior and is done to reduce the maintenance effort ...

India has outlined its commitment to achieving universal health coverage and several states in India are rolling out strategies to support this aim. In 2011, Rajasthan implemented an ambitious universal access to medicines programme based on a centralized procurement and decentralized distribution model. In terms of the three dimensions of universal health coverage, the scheme has made signific...

BACKGROUND There is overwhelming evidence that periodontal disease and dental caries affect the majority of populations and that western culture and lifestyle may have a profound influence on oral health, especially in adults. The present study was performed to determine the effect of westernization on the oral health of college students of Udaipur City, Rajasthan. METHODS A descriptive cross...

AIM To estimate genetic variability in exon 3 of caprine myostatin gene in Marwari goats. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 120 blood samples from unrelated Marwari goats were randomly collected from different villages of Bikaner (Rajasthan), India. Genomic DNA was extracted from whole blood using blood DNA isolation kit (Himedia Ltd.) as per manufacturer's protocol. The quality of extracted g...