sir, the world health organization has acknowledged that tuberculosis (tb) is one of the deadliest infectious diseases worldwide.[1] the global estimates suggest that in the year 2013, almost 9 million people were diagnosed with tb and around 1.5 million succumbed to the disease and its associated complications.[1] as an effective approach [viz. directly observed treatment and short‑course chem...

Hantaviruses are carried by numerous rodent species throughout the world. In 1993, a previously unknown group of hantaviruses emerged in the United States as the cause of an acute respiratory disease now termed hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). Before than, hantaviruses were known as the etiologic agents of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, a disease that occurs almost entirely in the E...

1217 The epidemic of noncommunicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases (CVD), is the largest the world has ever known. In 2011, global heads of state joined together at the United Nations High Level Meeting to focus on noncommunicable diseases – the first time the United Nations focused on a health issue since the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 2001. We are faced with the ambitious target of re...

background: the present study aimed to investigate the nailfold capillaroscopy (nc) features of the patients with dermatomyositis (dm) and its correlation with their disease activity indices, physical findings, and laboratory results. methods: the present cross-sectional study was conducted on 27 dm patients above 16 years old who had referred to an(there are 3 clinics not one) outpatient rheum...

The primary aim of this review was to evaluate the state of knowledge of the geographical distribution of all infectious diseases of clinical significance to humans. A systematic review was conducted to enumerate cartographic progress, with respect to the data available for mapping and the methods currently applied. The results helped define the minimum information requirements for mapping infe...

UK death rates from coronary heart disease are among the highest in the world. This is because the UK has high levels of standard risk factors and a low level of intervention on those risk factors. The most important modifiable cardiovascular risk factors are dyslipidaemia (particularly high LDL cholesterol and low HDL cholesterol), smoking, hypertension, glucose intolerance, and central obesit...