HIV-TB Co-infection : A ticking Time bomb
The Association: What we know Tuberculosis (TB) is strongly associated with HIV infection and vice versa. HIV increases the risk of disease reactivation in people […]
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Clinical Science
Cancer medicine in the era of Next Generation Sequencing: Solving the Puzzle
Cancer as a disease still remains one of the most complex human illness with high degree of morbidity and mortality across the globe. The involvement […]
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Dental Fear and Anxiety: Nipping it Young
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear […]
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Sexual Maturity Rating – SMR in boys and girls
In girls, the 1st visible sign of puberty and the hallmark of SMR 2 is the appearance of breast buds, between 8 and 12 yr […]
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Sickle Cell Disease: A Primer
Background: Sickle cell disease (SCD) or sickle cell anemia (SCA) is a hemoglobinopathy wherein abnormal hemoglobin is produced. It was first noted by James Herrick […]
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Thalassemia: Understanding the Disease
Thalassemia refers to a group of inherited disorders caused due to abnormal or inadequate production of the hemoglobin molecule, present in our red blood cells. […]
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Gullian Barre Syndrome – Post-infectious demyelinating polyneuropathy
Definition Guillain-Barre syndrome is a postinfectious polyneuropathy involving mainly motor but sometimes also sensory and autonomic nerves. Guillain-Barré syndrome is an acute demyelinating disorder of the […]
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Maternal Rhesus Isoimmunization : Rh incompatibility
Alloimmunization (Isoimmunisation) is defined as the antibody response to foreign antigen derived from different individual of the same species. Rh alloimmunization refers to the development […]
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Tetrabenazine – A forgotten drug for Dystonia
An 8 year old girl presented to the pediatric ER with complaints of fever for 1 week, altered sensorium for 5 days and multiple episodes […]
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