BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Pigmentation and keratosis are the prerequisites to diagnose arsenicosis. However, many systemic manifestations occur in association with pigmentation and keratosis in people exposed to chronic drinking of arsenic contaminated water. The present study aim to find out whether systemic manifestations occur in significant number of cases in arsenic exposed people in the abse...

Possibly, a great health burden of the poor can be addressed in a preventive manner by just addressing these two pillars. When we look at diseases such as fluorosis, Arsenicosis, Diarrhea, Renal stones, they seem to relate to Anemia, Osteoporosis, infant mortality, some types of heart diseases and other concerns on which there is wider action in terms of public health. To be noted is that focus...

Although arsenic contamination of groundwater has been detected recently in the Terai region of Nepal, scarce data have been available regarding the possible health effects of the contamination. A study was carried out in two rural villages of Nawalparasi district, where the existence of arsenic contamination has been reported. Almost all tubewells in one of the two villages (Goini, G) exceeded...