AIM To assess the prevalence, distribution, and associated risk factors of severe early childhood caries (S-ECC) among 12- to 36-month-old children of district Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS The present study was conducted on a random sample of 510 children, both boys and girls, between 12 and 36 months of age randomly selected from various government-sponsored day-ca...

OBJECTIVE To find out stressful events related to anesthesia and psychological responses in anesthesia personnel. MATERIAL AND METHOD Three hundred fifty three nurses and 286 doctors from all over the country who currently working in operating theatres participated in this study. Research tools comprised of interactive online anesthesia-related and psychological stress tests. Data were analyz...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of enzyme replacement therapy for Gaucher Disease on clinical and laboratory parameters after two, five and ten years of treatment. METHODS Data were collected from patient records and analyzed using BioEstat software (version 5.0). Student's t-test, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Wilcoxon test and Kruskal-Wallis test were used for statistical analysis. Hepatom...

A low serum vitamin D3 level is prevalent in our populations and it has been associated with an increased risk for some gastrointestinal cancers. Cholangiocarcinoma a rare biliary adenocarcinoma significant increase incidence over the last several decades. Some authors have suggested that Vitamin D may improve disease free survival patients undergoing surgery. Others published significantly sup...