The present study has been carried out on 795 Baiga children (453 males and 342 females) of Baiga-chak area of Dindori district in Madhya Pradesh (MP) varying between 1-18 years of age with an aim to understand their growth profile using cross sectional design. Fourteen body measurements (weight, height, sitting height, lengths, breadths, circumferences and skin folds) were studied. Four indice...

Animals will continue to encounter increasingly warm environments, including more frequent and intense heat waves. Yet the physiological consequences of heat waves remain equivocal, potentially because of variation in adaptive plasticity (reversible acclimation) and/or aspects of experimental design. Thus, we measured a suite of physiological variables in the corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus) ...

n engl j med 361;24 nejm.org december 10, 2009 2306 as a link between vaccination schedules and immune-mediated disorders. Such processes are not appropriate for patents in part because, at least in health care, patenting them frustrates the objectives of scientific discovery in at least three ways. First, physicians’ decision making may infringe on such a patent, and liability can also arise f...