In India, tobacco kills 900,000 people every year though the burden of tobacco is faced disproportionately in poorer states such as Bihar. Teachers may be a particularly influential group in setting norms around tobacco use in the Indian context. However, tobacco use among teachers remains high and perceptions of tobacco-related health risks are unexplored. To qualitatively explore perceptions ...

The paper deals some ethnomedicinal plants of Bihar which used as antidote in traditional phytotherapy.

BACKGROUND Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL; also known as Kala-azar) is an ultimately fatal disease endemic in Bihar. A 2007 observational cohort study in Bihar of 251 patients with VL treated with 20 mg/Kg intravenous liposomal amphotericin B (Ambisome) demonstrated a 98% cure rate at 6-months. Between July 2007 and August 2012, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Rajendra Memorial Research Inst...

Introduction The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) proposed the decentralisation of health planning so that the state health plan represents the needs and priorities of respective blocks and districts in the state. In Bihar, the State Programme Implementation Plan (SPIP) for the year 2010-2011 has been framed on the basis of strategies and activities, which worked in the last four years. Sta...

during recent years, been fuelled by explosive, and often unsustainable expansion in groundwater irrigation. Bihar however is not one of these. The state has abundant groundwater; however, much of this remains untapped because of lack of electricity and high price of diesel. Providing farmers reliable and affordable energy for groundwater irrigation is central to kickstarting Bihar’s green revo...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES India carries approximately 50 per cent of the global burden of visceral leishmaniasis and majority of patients from the poor, rural communities of Bihar State. Zinc is an essential trace element and its relevance for proper functioning of the entire immune system is already well documented. Though low serum zinc levels have been reported in many parasitic diseases, limi...

The groundwater quality of Koch Bihar District (West Bengal, India) has been assessed to determine the suitability for drinking. Eight parameters have taken into account calculating water index (WQI): pH, total hardness (TH), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), carbonate (CO32-) and bicarbonate (HCO3-), chloride (Cl), iron (Fe) sulfate (SO42-). Secondary data on were collected from Central Ground Wat...

Lathyhism has been reported from the time of Hippocrates. Mention has also been made ot this disease in old Hindu literature 1 Bhavaprakash' where it is written that the pulse Lathyrus sativus causes a man to become lanie and crippled and irritates the nerves (Chopra? 1938). In India epidemics of lathyrism have been reported from time to time usually associated with famine and food scarcity. Th...