Globally Emerging Hantaviruses: An Overview

An overview of Emerging Trend

Emerging & re-emerging infections in India: An overview

The incidence of emerging infectious diseases in humans has increased within the recent past or threatens to increase in the near future. Over 30 new infectious agents have been detected worldwide in the last three decades; 60 per cent of these are of zoonotic origin. Developing countries such as India suffer disproportionately from the burden of infectious diseases given the confluence of exis...

Emerging Health Insurance in India – An overview

The concept of Health Insurance was proposed in the year 1694 by Hugh the elder Chamberlen from Peter Chamberlen family. In 19 Century “Accident Assurance” began to be available which operated much like modern disability insurance. This payment model continued until the start of 20 century. During the middle to late 20 century traditional disability insurance evolved in to modern health insuran...

Hantaviruses in the Americas and Their Role as Emerging Pathogens

The continued emergence and re-emergence of pathogens represent an ongoing, sometimes major, threat to populations. Hantaviruses (family Bunyaviridae) and their associated human diseases were considered to be confined to Eurasia, but the occurrence of an outbreak in 1993-94 in the southwestern United States led to a great increase in their study among virologists worldwide. Well over 40 hantavi...

An Overview of Elastography - an Emerging Branch of Medical Imaging.

From times immemorial manual palpation served as a source of information on the state of soft tissues and allowed detection of various diseases accompanied by changes in tissue elasticity. During the last two decades, the ancient art of palpation gained new life due to numerous emerging elasticity imaging (EI) methods. Areas of applications of EI in medical diagnostics and treatment monitoring ...