The behavior that accompanies schizophrenia and related disorders interferes with professional and social activities. As a result, schizophrenia is one of the most costly psychiatric illnesses. Direct medical costs associated with schizophrenia were estimated from the Italian National Health Service perspective. This was a multicenter observational 1-year study conducted in 14 Italian community...

In 1990 and 1991, approximately 697,000 U.S. troops were deployed in the Persian Gulf during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. The United States suffered relatively few casualties during the brief air and ground war against Iraq. Since returning home, however, many veterans have developed illnesses that appear to be related to their military service in the Gulf. Researchers caution tha...

Sir, The article by Curtis and Goel (Archives, 1979, 54, 222) prompts me to place the usage of Lomotil in young children in the tropics in its right perspective. The problems of diarrhoea in the tropics are quite different when compared with temperate climates, and management of this condition is therefore also different. In situations where children have little or no access to optimal therapeu...

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the scale of the public health risk from stormwater runoff caused by urbanization. METHODS We compiled turbidity data for municipal treated drinking water as an indication of potential risk in selected US cities and compared estimated costs of waterborne disease and preventive measures. RESULTS Turbidity levels in other US cities were similar to those link...

Children and infants are the most susceptible group toward various diseases than adults due to under development of immune system. Paediatric healthcare providers face huge challenges in day to day practice due to lack of knowledge about the appropriate drugs. Most paediatric prescriptions carries antibiotics which has become a routine practice in the treatment of common paediatric illnesses wh...