Useful Illness

Is the Labelling of Common Mental Disorders as Psychiatric Illness Clinically Useful in Primary Care?

The present study has been carried out to examine the concepts of Common Mental Disorders held by primary health care providers in Goa. Ethnographic interviews and focus group discussions with primary health care (PHC) staff (n=33) and traditional healers (n=12) were done. Responses relating to the recognition and nature of case vignettes of depression, panic and agoraphobic disorder and multip...

Is influenza-like illness a useful concept and an appropriate test of influenza vaccine effectiveness?

PURPOSE To assess the utility of "influenza-like illness" (ILI) and whether it appropriately tests influenza vaccine effectiveness. PRINCIPAL RESULTS The WHO and CDC definitions of "influenza-like illness" are similar. However many studies use other definitions, some not specifying a temperature and requiring specific respiratory and/or systemic symptoms, making many samples non-comparable. M...

Assessment of illness severity in community acquired pneumonia: a useful new prediction tool?

Some Useful Information about Micropropagation

This review article investigates a comprehensive description of the factors, methods, strategies, approaches and prerequisites influencing in vitro micropaopagation and the amount of their use across the world. The findings presented here are the results of the study of several hundred papers published all over the world. Tissue culture techniques are routinely used for micropropagation. Enhanc...

Corticosteroids in Neurological and Mental Illness

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