background: psychiatric illnesses are an important group of co‑morbidities that can occur among patients with non‑communicable diseases (ncds). both these chronic conditions have an important implication in terms of quality of life, general well-being and cost of treatment and general longevity of the patient. the objectives of our study were to assess the burden of psychiatric co‑morbidities a...

background pharmacovigilance (pv) data are crucial for ensuring safety and effectiveness of medicines after drugs have been granted marketing approval. this paper describes the pv systems of india, uganda and south africa based on literature and key informant (ki) interviews and compares them with the world health organization’s (who’s) minimum pv requirements for a functional national pv syste...

OBJECTIVES To assess the relation between the number of clinical trials conducted and respective new drug approvals in India and South Africa. DESIGN Construction and analysis of a comprehensive database of completed randomised controlled clinical trials based on clinicaltrials.gov from 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2010 and drug approval data from 2006 until 2013 for India and South Africa. ...

Department of Microbiology, Kandaswami Kandar’s College, P. Velur, 638 182, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, South India. Department of Botany, Periyar E.V.R. College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli 620 023, Tamil Nadu, South India. Department of Biology, Eritrea Institute of Technology, Mai Nefhi, Asmara, North East Africa. Department of Eco-Biotechnology, School of Environmental Sciences, Bharathidasan Un...

1. General Introduction 1.1. The lifecycles of Trichuris trichiura and Ascaris lumbricoides 1.2. Morbidity and burden of disease 1.3. Epidemiology and age profiles of infection 1.4. Predisposition and susceptibility to infection 1.5. Immunological responses and the peak shift hypothesis 1.6. Treatment and control 1.7. Helminth frequency distributions 1.8. Density dependence in helminth species ...

Artificial neural network is considered one of the most efficient methods in processing huge data sets that can be analyzed computationally to reveal patterns, trends, prediction, forecasting etc. It has a great prospective in engineering as well as in medical applications. The present work employs artificial neural network-based curve fitting techniques in prediction and forecasting of the Cov...

background and objective: since it is essential for the research policy makers to acquire knowledge about the global ranks of their countries in in pathology and forensic medicine subject areas, scientometrics experts have been always ranking and analyzing countries on the basis of ‘total number of papers’, ‘total number of citations’ and ‘citations per paper’, etc. materials and methods: the ...

There is no agreement about the location of Aśmaka, but since the Āryabhaṭian school has remained strong in Kerala in South India, some believe that he may have belonged to that region. In addition, Āryabhaṭa employed the Kali era (3102 BC) which remains popular in South India. The Aśmaka people were taken in early literature to belong either to northwest India or the region in South India betw...

1 University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 3 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 4 Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 5 Public Health Foundation of India, Hyderabad, India, 6 HealthNet TPO, Kathmandu, Nepal, 7 University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 8 Human Sciences Researc...

background: the presence of radionuclides in the soil, measures need to be taken to minimize the radiation dose to humans. it is mostly gamma-emitting radionuclides that contribute to the radiation dose in long term behavior of these radionuclides in soil may determine the extent to which such countermeasures need to be applied. materials and methods: the activity concentration of these radionu...