A 60 year old women, a resident of Delhi, presented to the medical outdoor department of Lady Hardinge Medical College with complaints of recurrent fever accompanied by chills, rigor, headache, and malaise. She had no complaints suggestive of respiratory or urinary tract involvement. She had been treated with antimalarials (chloroquine and sulfadoxinepyrimethamine), however, she continued to be...

of the so-called stronger sex to preside on your Founder's Day it should be the DirectorGeneral, Indian Medical Service, on whom your choice has fallen, and on behalf of my service and myself I can assure you that this honour is greatly appreciated. We are living through stirring times and the medical profession is, in keeping with its tradition, playing a full and not inconspicuous part in the...

The sternal ends of the ribs are a reliable method of age estimation from late adolescence to old age. Iscan et al developed a phase analysis method based on the morphologic changes at the sternal extremity of the fourth rib, is one of the best effective for age estimation at death. The present study is designed to evaluate the applicability of Component method developed by Iscan et al, to Indi...

Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) can replace animal experiments to a large extent. The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of various teaching modalities including CAL over students’ learning and understanding of pharmacology. Conventional teaching of autonomic nervous system (ANS) was done. Following it, a written theory examination was conducted. CAL was demonstrated and p...

CONTEXT Premenstrual stress affects 75% of women of childbearing age and yoga has been found to be beneficial in many psycho-somatic disorders. AIMS To investigate the effect of integrated yoga on autonomic parameters and psychological well-being during both pre and post phases of menstrual cycle in healthy young female subjects. SETTINGS AND DESIGN Present study is a randomized control tri...

Leprosy among children is a public health problem reflecting the disease transmission in community and the efficiency of control programmes. To evaluate the clinico-epidemiological and histopathological features of childhood leprosy, a retrospective study was undertaken at leprosy centre of Lady Hardinge Medical College and associated Kalawati Saran Children Hospital, New Delhi. The diagnosis i...

In June 1997, a 60-year-old man underwent a primary cemented total arthroplasty of the right hip joint after 2 years of pain located in the buttock, radiating to the back and groin. He could only walk about one block. Preoperative radiographs showed severe osteoarthritis of the right hip joint (Fig. 1). In February 1990, he had had a left total hip arthroplasty; despite prophylaxis with coumari...

Background : Abortion is termination of pregnancy by any means before the fetus is sufficiently developed to survive on its own. The growing recognition that in this group of patients there may be an immunologic basis aroused interest in research workers. The anticardiolipin antibodies (aCL) which are commonly associated with recurrent pregnancy loss are lgG and lgM. lgM antibody is the largest...

Characterization of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi isolates for their Vi capsular polysaccharide antigen-related genetic sequences is desirable to define the role of isolates lacking such sequences in differential replication at unusual sites, including those coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Infection with Vi-negative strains might produce typhoid fever among those immuniz...

Kiran Agarwal 1 , Savita Agarwal* 1 , Lokesh Kumar 2 1 Department of Pathology, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Smt S.K. Hospital, New Delhi, India 2 Department of Radiodiagnosis, FH Medial College, Tundla, Firozabad, UP, India Extraskeletal osteosarcoma arising from myositis ossificans or heterotopic benign ossification is an extremely rare entity. Heterotopic ossification under rare circums...