Demonstrator of Physiology, Medical College, Calcutta. Insulin treatment in diabetes has now become common practice, but in Bengal, so far as my experience goes from both hospital and private cases, not much benefit has accrued from it. This is not only my experience, but it is the experience of many other general practitioners in Calcutta. In Europe, on the other hand, insulin is being extolle...

BACKGROUND Unhealthy premarital sex behavior leads to several health problems namely; sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), Human Immune Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), unwanted pregnancies, abortions and maternal deaths. Unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortions are rampant in Nepal despite introduction of legal provision for safe abortion since 2003. Lately, unsafe s...