www.thelancet.com/infection Vol 16 January 2016 21 irrespective of immune status. But on the other, anti-HBV treatment is not indicated in asymptomatic carriers and immune tolerant individuals. Use of HBV treatment for this period and withdrawal after delivery is not safe and life-threatening fl ares have been reported. To conclude, to replace HBIg plus vaccination with antiviral use before lab...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Undernutrition and various morbidities go hand in hand, particularly in children. Nutritional status is a sensitive indicator of community health and nutrition. The present study is an attempt to assess the nutritional status of pre-school children of Gond tribal community in Madhya Pradesh. METHODS The study was a community-based, cross- sectional survey carried out in...

Mental health and wellbeing constitutes important challenges for mankind. Though mental health is an integral component of total health, for several reasons mental health care has remained a grossly neglected. Objectives: 1)To estimate the prevalence of mental morbidities and its association with various factors 2)To find out the health seeking behavior among study population. Materials and Met...

To assess the adherence of physicians involved in the management of diabetes mellitus with or without co-morbidities with reference to Clinical Practice Guideline 2009 given by Ministry of Health Malaysia in the tertiary care hospital, Pinang General Hospital Malaysia. Cross-sectional study was done at tertiary care hospital, Penang, Malaysia. The total 51 physicians and 1020 patient’s prescrip...

The main HIV co-morbidities include coronary heart disease (CHD), metabolic syndrome and lipodystrophy, renal impairment, fragility fractures, neurocognitive disease, and the emerging complications of insulin resistance and fragility fractures. The evidence base for toxicities seen with ART is gained mainly from comparative efficacy studies of ART regimens, where toxicity is not the primary end...

Narcolepsy is a neurologic illness that typically begins in the second and third decades of life. It is chronic in nature and negatively impacts the quality of life of affected patients. The classic presentation is a tetrad of excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucinations. The exact cause remains unknown, but there is significant evidence that hypocreti...