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City profile: Shimla

a r t i c l e i n f o Shimla is one of the 80 hill stations which were established on preferred locations during British rule in India. It is the summer capital of pre-independent India, planned and developed for a maximum population of 25,000 in a picturesque hill setting. Presently, Shimla is capital of the state of Himachal Pradesh, one of the most preferred tourist destinations in the count...

Observations on paragonomiasis at the Quezon Institute.

The purpose of this paper is to present a review of the para-gonimus cases seen at the Quezon Institute for the last five years. These cases the authors consider fairly representative of patients with lung fluke manifestations in the Philippines. Paragonomiasis is sometimes called " Endemic Hemoptysis " because after a violent exertion or sometimes even without It attacks of hemoptysis of varyi...

Soil in the City URBAN Soil Management Strategy

Cohort profile: the Mexico City Prospective Study.

The Mexico City Prospective Study (Estudio Mexicano de Cohorte Para Enfermedades Crónicas en una Población Metropolitana) is a blood-based cohort study involving follow-up of 150 000 adults (50 000 men and 100 000 women) who were aged at least 35 years when recruited in 1998–2004. The study resulted from discussions in the early 1990s about how best to measure the changing health effects of tob...

Steroid profile for urine: reference values.

We describe a project, participated in by 24 institutions in The Netherlands and Belgium, to determine normal reference values for steroids in urine by capillary gas chromatography. Urine samples from 288 healthy volunteers were analyzed in triplicate. Reference values, expressed in mumol/24 h, were determined for androsterone, etiocholanolone, dehydroepiandrosterone, 11-keto-androsterone, 11-k...