Background: With the growing incidence of liver cirrhosis among Asians, the use of a biomarker such as prolactin indicates the severity of the disease, its complications, and serves as a tool for the early intervention. Aims and Objectives: The aims of…
Background: Medical knowledge is advancing at a rapid pace in a world, where technological evolution is at an all-time high. However, the health-care system falls well short of acceptable standards when it comes to meeting patient demands. Our medical …
Background: Stress is a normal psychological, physiological, and behavioral response of any individual. It is the struggle of an individual to cope up with the situation doing more than one’s ability. It can lead to ill health over a period of time, if…
Background: Framingham risk score (FRS) is a widely recognized tool used by clinicians worldwide to determine and estimate the 10-year risk of manifesting clinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) of an individual and classify them into different risk cate…
Background: Cholesteatoma is a collection of keratinized squamous epithelium in middle ear and pneumatic areas of temporal bone. It can be said as an invasive disease which is often associated with sensorineural hearing loss. It is seen that hearing lo…
Background: A characteristic feature of the cervical vertebrae (C1–C7) is the presence of a foramen tranversarium on the transverse process. The cervical vertebrae are the smallest in size as compared to the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae and are charac…
Background: Propylthiouracil is an antithyroid drug used to treat hyperthyroidism in pregnancy, as euthyroid state is necessary for optimal pregnancy outcome. Few reports of fetal anomalies are associated with propylthiouracil use as compared to other …
Background: In the recent years, there is a huge paradigm shift of medical education in India from curriculum-based learning to learner-centered and time independent competency-based medical education. This paradigm shift was to rear and trains medical…
Background: Hearing loss (HL) has negative impact on quality of life. The prevalence of HL increases with age. Aims and Objectives: The present study was planned to explore the possible association of hypertension with age-related sensorineural HL (SNH…
Background: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium africanum, Mycobacterium canetti, and Mycobacterium microti are all members of the MTB complex [MTBC], which cause tuberculosis. Mycobacteria other than TB also known as n…