OBJECTIVE To understand the knowledge and services of informal providers and to explore their role in addressing the human resource gap in Uttar Pradesh, India, within the context of maternal health. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study is exploratory in nature, conducted in four blocks of four districts of Uttar Pradesh state, India. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 114 informal pro...

Aarskog-Scott Syndrome is a rare syndrome and is estimated to occur in 1 in 1 million individuals in general population. It is transmitted in an X-linked recessive manner and occurs due to FGD1 gene mutation. It has facial, genital and digital hands symptoms, musculoskeletal anomalies and affected growth. Here we present a case of Aarskog-Scott syndrome in an 18-year-old male patient with the c...

INTRODUCTION Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is recognized as a major cause of blindness among children in India. OBJECTIVE To find out the prevalence of VAD in rural children of Uttar Pradesh, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was undertaken amongst children (0-15 years) in a rural area of Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh) where the study population was selected by simple random sa...

BACKGROUND The ability to taste Phenylthiocarbamide (PTC), a bitter organic compound, described as a bimodal autosomal trait is widely used to know the heritable trait in both genetic and anthropological studies. The present study was carried out to analyze the prevalence of PTC taste sensitivity and to determine the gene frequencies among some Muslim populations of Uttar Pradesh, India. This s...

Native diversity is well represented in northern and eastern parts of India for mango. We evaluated three important polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based marker techniques viz., random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD), inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR) and directed amplified mini satellite DNA (DAMD) and examined their suitability for depicting genetic relationships and discrimination among c...

Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) belongs to the genus Linum of the family Linaceae commonly known as “Alsi” and has 2n = 30 chromosomes. Linseed is one of the important rabi oilseed crops of India, cultivated in light soil under one or two irrigation in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Karnataka, Orissa and Bihar (Pali and Mehta, 2014). Chhattisgarh...

A field experiment was conducted to study the effect of integrated nutrient management on growth and yield spring mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) cultivars in Bundelkhand region Uttar Pradesh during season 2019 at Banda University Agriculture Technology, (Uttar Pradesh). The laid out asymmetrical factorial randomized block design with 6 treatment combinations practices 2 varieties. Result...

The problem of undernutrition is rampant in many states of India as found by many researchers in past. In so called “BIMARU” states such as Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Bihar have very high rates of undernutrition. Moreover most studies also reveal variable prevalence’s of undernutrition in different states of India ranging from 35% to 60% [41.2% in Dehradun; 2 to 37% in Kerala the rates of u...

BACKGROUND India is in a race against time to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5, to reduce Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) to '28' and Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) to '109', by 2015. This study estimates the percent net contribution of the states and the periods in shaping India's IMR/MMR, and predicts future levels. METHODS A standardized decomposition technique was used ...

Department of oral medicine and radiology, Seema dental college and hospital, Rishekesh , Uttarkhand, India. Department of oral medicine and radiology, I.T.S. Dental College, Hospital and Research Centre, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India Department of oral pathology, Seema dental college and hospital, Rishekesh , Uttarkhand, India Department of oral medicine and radiology, Maharana Pratap De...