Health Sciences

Back ground: Hand hygiene is an important component of infection control, which is critical to ensuring patients’ safety in hospitals. Nurses are regarded as healthcare workers could also be vehicles of cross-contamination within the hospital. Thus study aimed to evaluate multimodal interventional health education program in improving knowledge and practicing toward correct hand hygiene manoeuvres at armed forces hospital southern region, in khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia.

Background: Radiology has turned into a noteworthy field in diagnostic application in both medicine and dentistry. There are various dental maladies that can be diagnosed by the utilization of radiography. Since dental specialists and students operate dental x-ray unit on visit premise in their everyday clinical practice, there is a high likelihood among them to be exposed to x-rays on consistent premise. Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a health education tool about radiation protection among dental practitioners of Madurai city.

Carbohydrates are the biomolecules consisting of carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) atoms which are major source of energy in the body. Brain and Red blood cell mainly utilizes the glucose. The storage form of glucose is glycogen which is stored in skeletal muscles and liver. The stored glycogen is converted into glucose and is used by body in a condition when there is low level of glucose in the body. In this review article, the author tries to cover various aspects of carbohydrates which may be helpful for the readers and researchers in research.

Kawasaki disease is an acute systemic vasculitis of children. In the adult, it’s extremely rare, usually diagnosed by coronary artery aneurysms. We report the case of a 22-year-old patient with coronary artery aneurysms observed in coronary angiography evoking Kawasaki disease. We will discuss the peculiarities of this coronary disease with review of the literature.

Background: Different studies proved that the homoeopathic medicine “Belladonna 200C” can abate the Japanese encephalitis virus infection in experimental models. The aim of this study is to find out the recent evidence based information which will be supportive to treat the Japanese Encephalitis virus infection according to severity of disease (JE) stratified in different stages.

Background: Oxford Shoulder Score is a shoulder-specific instrument designed to assess the outcome of all shoulder surgeries. It’s now used in a number of countries and has also been applied in cohort studies, audits, and national joint replacement registries. Objective: To test the face validity, the content validity, the feasibility; the internal consistency reliability and the test retest reliability of Arabic-language version of OSS in assessment of shoulder joint pain.

Petroleum activity has been highly instrumental in yielding economic rewards for resource producing countries and supplying a vital energy source, but it also has the potential to cause profound environmental impacts. Oil pollution forms part of the general malaise of environmental pollution. The disastrous effect of oil pollution is now beyond question. The restive situation in the Niger Delta can be blamed on heinous environmental crimes and breach of good environmental management by multinational oil companies.

Introduction: Thyroid cancer is considered the most frequent endocrine neoplasm, the American Association for the Study of the Thyroid (ATA), projected that by 2019 it becomes the third non-fatal cancer in the order of prevalence in women. The thyroid nodule as its most frequent form of presentation, through the use of ultrasound with high spatial resolution, can be captured in 19-67% of healthy individuals. Among the large number of thyroid nodules detected, only 5% -15% are only 5% to 7% of cases.

Introduction: it is important for the women to know when they are ovulating. Being infertile is the biggest social stigma faced by Indian women. The ability to detect the period of potential monthly fertility is of great importance for women in their reproductive years, both in terms of contraception as well as conception. There is increasing demand of women for cheap self test to predict the fertile period in each menstrual cycle.

In the current scenario of ageing population and increased environmental factors the more prevalent eye disease is ‘Dry Eye Syndrome’. It is a tear film disorder caused by tear deficiency or excessive tears evaporation which results in ocular surface damage and there by irritation, discomfort and dimness of vision. The available modern treatment for dry eye has same lacunas like frequent instillation develops drug toxicity and costly regime. To overcome these lacunas and increased prevalence of the disease, it is necessary to look for alternative therapy.