South Asia is a unique geopolitical region which covers 3.4% of the world’s surface area and supports 25% of the world’s population (1.749 billion). It hosts the second (India), sixth (Pakistan) and the eighth (Bangladesh) most populous countries in the world. The South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was established in 1985 and currently has eight Member States. SAARC account...

BACKGROUND Behavioral risk factors such as tobacco use, unhealthy diet, insufficient physical activity and the harmful use of alcohol are known and modifiable contributors to a number of NCDs and health mediators. The purpose of this paper is to describe the distribution of main risk factors for NCDs by socioeconomic status (SES) among adults aged 50 years and older within a country and compare...

Background: The natural radionuclides are always present in soil and care needs to be taken to minimize the radiation dose to humans. These radionuclides are mostly gamma ray emitting radionuclides which contribute to the radiation dose in long term behavior of radionuclides in soil. Health hazards associated with natural radioactivity are of great concern and it is necessary to assess risk due...

BACKGROUND The present study is an attempt to explore the association between kitchen indoor air pollutants and physiological profiles in kitchen workers with microalbuminuria (MAU) in north India (Lucknow) and south India (Coimbatore). METHODS The subjects comprised 145 control subjects, 233 kitchen workers from north India and 186 kitchen workers from south India. Information related to the...

The European records of the origin of spectacles are very controversial. The suggestion that spectacles were first invented during the I 3th century in Italy by an unknown layman of Pisa is not convincing, because there are also references to spectacles in Hindu literature at about the same time. In the life of Vyasaraya (1446-1539), written in Sanskrit by his contemporary, the poet Somnath, th...

As India seeks to develop and maintain its nuclear weapons arsenal, it faces the critical question of how to ensure the reliability and safety of its nuclear weapons, especially as they age, in the absence of full-fledged nuclear explosive tests. Further, India must decide how to increase the yield (or decrease the yield, as needed) and reduce the weights of its existing weapons designs—that is...

Jogini is the name for a female sexually exploited temple attendant and is used interchangeably with Devadasi in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. Jogini are twice more likely than other women who are used for sexual intercourse in India to be HIV positive, and their rate of mortality from HIV is 10 times the total mortality rate for all women in India. The four states in India with the most ...

We describe a case of subconjunctival dirofilariasis from South India. The worm was identified by detailed morphologic study.

2015 Vol 7 No 1 South Afr J Gynaecol Oncol Nandi M, MBBS, MD, Junior Consultant Department of Radiation Oncology, Apollo Gleneagles Cancer Hospital, Kolkata, India Mandal A, MSc(Phy), DipRP, PhD, Radiological Physicist Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Uttar Pradesh, India Asthana AK, MBBS, MD(Radiotherapy), Professor Rad...