Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a major public health concern in tribal community not only in Gujarat but also globally. Gujarat, a western state of India, has 89.12 lakh tribal populations and is expected to have at least 9,00,000 sickle cell trait and 70,000 SCD patients. The aim of the present review is to document the prevalence of SCD in various communities and various screening me...

Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Sharavathi Dental College and Hospital, Shimoga, Karnataka, India Department of Periodontics, K.M. Shah Dental College and Hospital, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Sharavathi Dental College and Hospital, Shimoga, Karnataka, India Department of Conservative and Endodontics, K.M Shah Dental Colleg...

Situations of chronic conflict across the globe make it imperative to draw attention to its gendered health consequences, particularly the violation of women's reproductive and sexual rights. Since early 2002 in Gujarat, western India, the worst kind of state-sponsored violence against Muslims has been perpetrated, which continues to this day. This paper describes the history of that violence a...

Identification of homogeneous invariant geographical units assumes considerable importance in the context of current attempts at developing environmental indices to monitor changes. Data on the edaphic and climatic parameters for the state of Gujarat--a predominantly arid to semi-arid province in western India--has been used to elaborate an approach that employs principal component analysis (PC...

BACKGROUND There is scant information available on the prevalence of parasitic infections in Gujarat, a state in Western India. The present community-based study was undertaken in the urban slums of a city in Gujarat to determine the following parameters: (a) the prevalence and type of pathogenic intestinal parasites and (b) the availability of sanitary facilities in the study population. MAT...

BACKGROUND India's Smoke-Free Law (SFL) was implemented in 2004 and reinforced on 2nd October 2008. This research attempts to understand the knowledge and opinion of hospitality venue (HV) managers about second-hand smoke (SHS) and SFL as well as self-reported compliance with SFL in two Indian states. METHODS A survey was conducted among 804 randomly sampled HVs from project STEPS (Strengthen...

Tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) are apex predators occurring in most tropical and warm temperate marine ecosystems, but we know relatively little of their patterns of residency and movement over large spatial and temporal scales. We deployed satellite tags on eleven tiger sharks off the north-western coast of Western Australia and used the Brownian Bridge kernel method to calculate home ranges...

Department of Chemistry, Vithalbhai Patel & Rajratna Purushotamdas Tulsibhai Patel Science College, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat State, India ISSN: 0976-3031 RESEARCH ARTICLE SOLVENT-FREE SYNTHESIS OF MANNICH PRODUCTS CATALYZED BY ETHYL AMMONIUM NITRATE AS REUSABLE IONIC LIQUID AND THEIR IN VITRO MICROBIAL STUDIES Patel, H. M 1Department of Chemistry, Vithalbhai Patel & Rajratna Purushotamdas Tu...