Background: Indoor air pollution is still considered as one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide and especially in developing countries, including India. This study aims to assess social, housing, and indoor environmental factors associated with respiratory health among mothers and children. Methods: The study was conducted in the city of Tirupur, South India. We quantitat...

The Asiatic wild dog or dhole was once very widely distributed across Asia but now has a very fragmented range. In this first genetic study of this little-known species, we obtained information on genetic diversity, phylogeography, and social structure using both mitochondrial control region sequencing and microsatellite genotyping of noninvasive faecal samples from wild populations, as well as...

A recent molecular clock analysis concluded that Gondwanan vicariance and out-of-India dispersal best explained the distribution of Crypteroniaceae and its allies (Conti et al. 2002). A reanalysis of their data using a different molecular dating technique and calibration point is congruent with an alternative hypothesis, namely dispersal between India, Africa, and South America long after the i...

The 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) tuberculosis (TB) report, published after the approval of the End TB Strategy, shows that, because of the improved surveillance/survey figures from India, the global 2015 TB incidence and mortality reached 10.4 and 1.4 million, respectively [1–5]. Together with India, China, Nigeria, Pakistan, Indonesia, Pakistan and South Africa contribute most to the g...

Taipei Medical University,Taipei,Taiwan; Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Keio University,Tokyo, Japan; Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; University of Singapore, Singapore, Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok,Thailand; The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Pharmaceutical Management India Institute of Health Management ...

Similarly the tenth century Cholapaintings and 17th century Kayak paintings in the narrow and dark confines of the inner ambulatory of the Brhadisvara temple at Tanjore in South India, have been comprehensively photo-documented. Most of these were completely unseen by scholars and this photography has led to fundamental changes in the understanding of the historical development of painting in I...

India celebrated its victory over polio on 11th February 2014 after an extraordinary fight against the disease for almost two decades since the introduction of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in India. The South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organisation (WHO) was certified polio free, on March 27, 2014 by the WHO’s Regional Certification Commission for polio eradication c...

1 Department of Operational Research, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India 2 S.S. College of Business Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi 110095, India 3 Department of Social Management Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University, 4-101, Minnami, Koyama, Tottori 680-8552, Japan 4 Department of Industrial and System Engineering, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, Sout...

-Thalassemia is one of the major genetic disorders which can be transmitted from parents to their children. In India, there is a concept of consanguineous marriage apart from having various castes and sub-castes in all the states. There are many ways of screening -Thalassemia. Complete hemogram like MCV, MCH, Hb values and the NESTROFT. The sample which shows positive for NESTROFT can be chec...

Aims: To identify the proportion of familial cases of isolated ocular colobomatous malformations in a case series from south India. Methods: Children with ocular coloboma without systemic features were recruited from multiple sources in Andhra Pradesh, India. Their families were traced, pedigrees drawn, and family members examined. Results: 56 probands, 25 females (44.6%) and 31 males (57.4%) w...