Extrapolation of data from two national nutritional surveys in India--the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) and surveys conducted by the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB)--enabled the ranking of states on the basis of criteria such as nutritional status of children under 5 years of age. The most recent NNMB survey report (1988-90) indicates that between 42.5% (Kerala) and 69.5% (O...

Hyperlipidemia is a condition of elevated lipid level in blood. Hyperlipidemia may be defined by serum total cholesterol >240mg/dL and/or LDL cholesterol >160mg/dL and/or total cholesterol: HDL ratio >5.7 and/or total triglycerides > 150mg/dL in adults. Hyperlipidemia is a major cause of atherosclerosis and atherosclerosis related conditions like coronary heart disease (CHD), ischemic cerebrova...

The way you grow up in India, it has long been known, depends on where you grow up. The average child growing up in Orissa in the 1980s was seven times more likely to die in infancy than his or her equivalent in Kerala. His or her mother is four and half times more likely to die in giving birth if she were in Assam than she would be had she been in Kerala? And if she happens to be a girl and bo...

The way you grow up in India, it has long been known, depends on where you grow up. The average child growing up in Orissa in the 1980s was seven times more likely to die in infancy than his or her equivalent in Kerala. His or her mother is four and half times more likely to die in giving birth if she were in Assam than she would be had she been in Kerala. And if she happens to be a girl and bo...

Government Departments are increasingly using websites as a tool to reach out to the citizens. Through Government websites, the Government can improve the standard of information and ensure maximum reach of government information and services to citizens through different government services published on the web. The objective of Government web services is to reach to all sections of society wi...

Author for correspondence: Professor A. Subramoniam Former Director, Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram-695562, Kerala, India Residence: Vininivas, T.C. 14/80, Anyara (P.O.), Near KIMS Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram-695029, Kerala, India E-mail: [email protected] Tel.: +91-09496093609 ANNALS OF PHYTOMEDICINE An International Journal Annals of Phytomedicine 2(1...

Computers and mobile devices have created a niche for themselves in the digital communication stratosphere. With the advance of technology, the power of these devices has increased leaps and bounds. Due to this growing popularity, computers and mobile devices have plunged into criminal activities also. Drug dealers, rapists and murderers across the State have been caught based on the electronic...

BACKGROUND There is paucity of reliable contemporary data on prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) and risk factors in Indians. Only a few studies on prevalence of CAD have been conducted in Kerala, a Southern Indian state. The main objective of the Cardiological Society of India Kerala Chapter Coronary Artery Disease and Its Risk Factors Prevalence Study (CSI Kerala CRP Study) was to det...

Introduction: Superior adhesive strength in luting agents is of paramount significance in fixed partial denture success. In this in vitro study five cements were tested for retentive qualities, using both lathe-cut and hand-prepared specimens. Materials and methods: A total of 104 freshly extracted tooth specimens were prepared. Seventy of them were lathe-cut and 30 specimens were hand-prepared...