Cultivated cure, regenerated affliction

Systemic Affliction of Oral Focal Sepsis

Multitude of etiologies can cause diseases in various systems. One important etiology is focal sepsis in the oral cavity which has been hypothesized till now to cause various diseases. This hypothesis has now been proved beyond doubt. This article aims to throw light at the effects of oral focal sepsis on the systems, their management and the role of the dentist in prevention of these manifesta...

Chaupadi: The affliction of menses in Nepal☆

One of the most difficult issues I encountered during my time as a youth volunteer with Volunteer Services Overseas (VSO; http://www. vsointernational.org) in Nepal was the treatment of menstruating women. Perhaps it was because it affectedme directly, and I was given a rare insight into life as a woman in rural Nepal. Despite being forewarned of the attitudes I would encounter, I was shocked b...

Regenerated Fibre Bragg Gratings

A response to human affliction and social loss.

There is today a growing awareness both of the prevalence of torture involving a very large number of countries around the world and of the depth of the human suffering it leaves in its wake. Individual lives have been broken, the stability of families shattered, the psychic equilibrium of the children of torture victims disrupted. In the words of Simone Veil, former President of the European P...

Mental Trauma Affliction and Infliction: Punishment and Atonement for Sins?

A 5 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states “NO ONE SHALL BE SUBJECTED TO TORTURE OR TO CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT”. It is widely acknowledged worldwide that trauma related afflictions and inflictions e.g. due to acquired brain injury, are becoming a major disease burden, producing increasing morbidity and mortality [1,2]. Most researches focu...