Background India’s health sector witnessed some major policy changes in 1990s that aimed at making health services more accessible to the population.   Methods In this paper, I tried to present some preliminary results of the significant changes that occurred between 1995/6 and 2004, especially in relation to the question of access to healthcare for the poor and rural population using data from...

background: elder abuse and neglect (ean) comprises emotional, financial, physical, and sexual abuse, neglect by other individuals, and self-neglect. elder abuse and neglect in seniors with psychiatric morbidity was not monitored in the czech republic at all, despite the literature shows mental morbidity as one of the important risk factor for developing elder abuse and neglect. methods: we des...

Nationally there are higher rates of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) and bloodborne viruses diagnosed in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people than in other Australians. These infections are a major source of morbidity: untreated chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis can cause infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease, premature delivery and neonatal and post-partum infections, whil...

Biotinidase deficiency is an inherited disorder in which the vitamin biotin is not recycled. If untreated, affected individuals develop neurological and cutaneous symptoms. Untreated individuals with biotinidase deficiency either succumb to disease or are left with significant morbidity. We describe clinical course and follow-up of 4 children from Pakistan. All 4 presented with classical sympto...

Giant intracranial aneurysms account for about 5 percent of all aneurysms, and are arbitrarily defined as having a diameter greater than 25 mm. These lesions, if left untreated, have an extremely poor natural history, with higher rates of morbidity and mortality than smaller saccular aneurysms. A retrospective review of untreatable giant aneurysms revealed an 80% risk of death or severe disabil...

atls or advanced trauma life support and the family training courses like atcn and phts, are training courses planning for medical staff who are involved in trauma care to mange injured  people in proper way to save lives and reduce the morbidity significantly. from the scene of accident ems who passed phtls for pre hospital trauma care to emergency rooms in hospital doctors and nurses could pe...

conclusions therefore, development of rapid diagnostic methods with suitable sensitivity and specificity is very important about this infectious disease. in this review, we will discuss some of the important diagnostic methods. context diarrhea is a common disease across the world. according to who, every year about two billion cases of diarrhea are reported in the world. it occurs mainly in th...

Hemoptysis is a crucial entity taking into account its morbidity and mortality. Pulmonary tuberculosis the leading cause for massive hemoptysis in our part of world, which if left untreated may be life threatening. We present case 37-year-old male patient with pulmonary concurrent thromboembolism presenting hemoptysis, was successfully managed Bronchial Artery Embolization. This represents that...

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) in children is a common disorder, with prevalence estimates of approximately 1-2%. Furthermore, premature infants and children with other conditions including craniofacial disorders, obesity, neuromuscular disorders, Down syndrome, chronic lung disease, sickle cell anemia, central hypoventilation syndromes, and a number of other genetic and metabolic dise...