This study aims to determine the factors associated with anemia in pregnant women. The method used this is a descriptive-analytic cross-sectional design. results showed that most of respondents (50.5%) were highly educated; 75.2% work as housewives; 74.2% have good nutritional status; 78.9% irregular taking blood supplement tablets; 84.4% had anemia. bivariate analysis education, status, occupa...

The normal distribution approach is often used in regression analysis at the Response Surface Methodology (RSM) modeling stage. Several studies have shown that has drawbacks compared to more robust t-distribution approach. found control size much successfully small samples existing methods presence of moderately heavy tails. In many RSM applications, there than one response (multiresponse), whi...

OBJECTIVES To compare the management of acute paracetamol poisoning with the best evidence available, and to determine the effect of plasma paracetamol level estimation on the management. DESIGN Descriptive study with an intervention. SETTING Medical wards of the National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Colombo. PATIENTS Patients admitted with a history of acute paracetamol poisoning. INTERVENTI...

BACKGROUND AmrutBhallatak (ABFN02), a 'rasayana' drug from Ayurveda is indicated in degenerative diseases and arthritis. OBJECTIVE To evaluate safety and efficacy of ABFN02 in osteoarthritis (OA) and compare it with Glucosamine sulphate (GS). MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a randomized open comparative study. Ambulant OPD patients of OA knees (n = 112) were enrolled for 24 weeks. Tablets (7...

S26 ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND / VOLUME 6 / SUPPLEMENT 1 / AUGUST 2017 P-THER-01 Endoscopic ultrasound-guided celiac plexus neurolysis for pain relief in carcinoma gallbladder Praveer Rai, C. R. Lokesh SGPGI, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India Background and Objectives: About 80% of patients with gallbladder cancer present with pain. Unlike cancer pancreas, endoscopic ultrasound-guided celiac plexus neur...

S26 ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND / VOLUME 6 / SUPPLEMENT 1 / AUGUST 2017 P-THER-01 Endoscopic ultrasound-guided celiac plexus neurolysis for pain relief in carcinoma gallbladder Praveer Rai, C. R. Lokesh SGPGI, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India Background and Objectives: About 80% of patients with gallbladder cancer present with pain. Unlike cancer pancreas, endoscopic ultrasound-guided celiac plexus neur...

paracetamol is a sparingly soluble bitter tasting drug. it is widely used as an analgesic and antipyretic. complexation of drug with different cyclodextrins (?, ? and hp-?-cd) was attempted to improve solubility of paracetamol. during the drug excipient interaction studies, ?, ? cyclodextrins elicited analytical interference and showed considerable absorbance at ?max (243.5 nm) of paracetamol w...