Leukorrhea is the flow of whitish, yellowish or greenish discharge from the vagina of a female, which can happen under normal conditions as well as bacterial or fungal infections. Such discharges may originate from the vagina, ovaries, fallopian tubes, or, most commonly, the cervix. In our ongoing ethnomedicinal surveys among the various tribes and regions of Bangladesh, it was observed that le...

IN a recent article relating to early nineteenth-century Bible translation and printing in Mongolian, Professor Bawden mentions in the text of his article and again in a footnote,' a medical handbook translated from Russian into Kalmuck which was published in 1823. This book is now in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. The Kalmuck tribes constituted one of the ma...

Global health aid provided by medical students in Singapore to vulnerable populations in Asia includes efforts in preventive medicine, for example, administration of vaccines and installation of water tanks, health education to improve knowledge on diseases afflicting communities, health screening, and affordable treatment for specific conditions. The Manila Medical Mission is a student group, ...

The species-flocks of cichlid fishes in the East African Great Lakes Victoria, Malawi and Tanganyika constitute the most diverse extant adaptive radiations in vertebrates. Lake Tanganyika, the oldest of the lakes, harbors the morphologically and genetically most diverse assemblage of cichlids and contains the highest number of endemic cichlid genera of all African lakes. Based on morphological ...

BACKGROUND The moth family Geometridae (inchworms or loopers), with approximately 23,000 described species, is the second most diverse family of the Lepidoptera. Apart from a few recent attempts based on morphology and molecular studies, the phylogeny of these moths has remained largely uninvestigated. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We performed a rigorous and extensive molecular analysis of ...

Although much digital divide research focuses on access to technology, another cause of the divide is the lack of information awareness that we call information asymmetry. Information asymmetry often stems from inadequate information sharing and can result in negative consequences for both the information poor and the information rich. Information asymmetry has been insufficiently studied as a ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The level of infant and child mortality is high among Scheduled Tribes particularly those living in rural areas. This study examines levels, trends and socio-demographic factors associated with infant and child mortality among Scheduled Tribes in rural areas. METHODS Data from the three rounds of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) of India from 1992 to 2006 were ...

About a half of the autochthonous people of the world with about 635 tribal groups and subgroups including 75 primitive tribes live in India. The state of Orissa occupies a unique position in the tribal map of India having 62 scheduled tribes including 13 primitive tribes with a population of over 8.15 million constituting 22.3% of the population of the state as per 2001 Census. There is a pauc...

This article analyses the current human rights situation of hijras (eunuchs) in India against background Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) 1871. argues that British colonial construct/imposition masculinity on Indian by classifying them as ‘criminal tribes’ have adversely impacted their lives not only India, but also Contemporary India. To support main argument, contextualizes gender theories light hij...