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The Health Agenda 2013 July; Volume 1, Issue 3

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MVR Reddy, Need to integrate student research with the medical course curriculum in India
The integration of research component into undergraduate (UG) medical curriculum in India is still an issue that has not received much attention. Medical educators in the west have generally favoured this with most of the medical schools maintaining it as curriculum requirement. In India, the....
Saubhagya Kumar Jena, Preetam B Mahajan and Vikas Bhatia, Status of institutional delivery in the state of Odisha: Challenges and opportunities
Maternal health is an area of prime concern in India. National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has fast forwarded the progress in improving maternal health through initiatives like promoting institutional deliveries and improving access to reproductive health services etc. However, glaring....
Preetam B Mahajan, Sagaya Mary and Susiganesh Kumar E, Knowledge about swine flu among patients seeking health care in a tertiary and primary health care facility in Puducherry
Background: Swine flu/Novel H1N1 influenza Pandemic was in Phase 6 in June 2009. Success of mitigation would depend on compliance of the community particularly to non-pharmacological interventions which in turn would be dependent on the familiarity regarding prevention and control of flu....
Nilanjan Majumder, Nilratan Majumder and Shib Sekhar Datta, Knowledge and perception of mothers of under five children regarding etiology of Type-II Diabetes Mellitus in Agartala, Tripura
Introduction: Misconceptions and inadequate knowledge remains significant barrier towards prevention and control of diabetes in developing countries. Epidemiological shift of diabetes towards children makes mothers potential agents for any drive that targets diabetes. Objective: To assess....
Anuja S Akulwar, Balaji W Ghugare, Ramji Singh, Neeraj Kanchankar, Manjiri Joshi, Manish Ramavat, Clinical and electrophysiological evaluation of carpel tunnel syndrome in diabetes mellitus to assess association of age, gender and duration of diabetes on median neuropathy at wrist
Context: CTS is commonest entrapment neuropathy in upper limbs. Prevalence of median neuropathy at wrist in diabetes mellitus (DM) is affected by certain non-modifiable risk factors like age, sex, duration of diabetes, body mass index etc. Objectives: To assess association of age, gender and....
Yogesh A Bahurupi, Shrikala Acharya and Ratnendra Shinde, Perceptions and practices of traditional birth attendants in a tribal area of Maharashtra: A qualitative study
Background: Even with enhanced efforts to increase institutional births in India, an alarming number of deliveries are still being carried out at homes. Most of these home deliveries are carried out by traditional birth attendants (TBAs). In such situations, practices and perceptions of the TBAs....
Arpan K Shah and Manjiri U Joshi, Nonsyndromic multiple supernumerary premolars: Report of three cases
Supernumerary teeth are those which occur in excess of the usual number of teeth. Occurrence of single supernumerary tooth is very common. Development of multiple supernumerary teeth is relatively uncommon. Multiple supernumerary teeth most frequently develop in mandibular premolar region.....
Rajashree Panigrahy, Saubhagya Kumar Jena and Soumya Samal, Fatal cervicitis caused by Metallo-β-Lactamase (MBL) strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Symptoms suggestive of a lower genital tract infection (LGTI) are common complaints in women who consult gynaecologists. Inflammation of the endocervix (cervicitis) is usually found in those cases, when vaginal speculum examination is being done. Cervicitis is commonly seen in women during their....