Editorial

Breastfeeding – A 3D experience
Siddarth Ramji  

Commentaries

Increasing prevalence of lifestyle diseases: high time for action
M.J. Pappachan 

Polyherbal formulation as a therapeutic option to improve wound healing in the diabetic foot
N. Papanas & E. Maltezos 

Review Article

An understanding of the genetic basis of asthma
Mahdi Bijanzadeh, Padukudru A. Mahesh & Nallur B. Ramachandra 

Original Articles

Prevalence of prehypertension in young military adults & its association with overweight & dyslipidaemia
Sougat Ray, Bharati Kulkarni & A. Sreenivas 

A pilot study on the effects of a polyherbal formulation cream on diabetic foot ulcers
Vijay Viswanathan, Rajesh Kesavan, Kavitha K.V. & Satyavani Kumpatla 

Longitudinal trends in physical activity patterns in selected urban south Indian school children
Sumathi Swaminathan, Sumithra Selvam, Tinku Thomas, Anura V. Kurpad & Mario Vaz 

Fc γ R IIB gene polymorphisms in Indian systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients
Vandana Pradhan, Manisha Patwardhan, Anita Nadkarni & Kanjaksha Ghosh 

Mismatch repair genes expression defects & association with clinicopathological characteristics in colorectal carcinoma
Gurjeet Kaur, Abdelhafid Masoud, N. Raihan, M. Radzi, W. Khamizar & Lee Suk Kam

Intravenous device associated blood stream staphylococcal infection in paediatric patients
Amita Jain, Astha Agarwal, Raj Kumar Verma, Shally Awasthi & K.P. Singh 

Promoter region polymorphism & expression profile of toll like receptor-3 (TLR-3) gene in chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients from India
Subhash Medhi, Manab Deka, Purabi Deka, Shyam S. Swargiary, Rajib K. Hazam, Manash P. Sharma, Phani K. Gumma, Mohammad Asim & P. Kar 

Screening & profiling of quorum sensing signal molecules in Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from catheterized urinary tract infection patients
Ravi Kumar, Sanjay Chhibber, Varsha Gupta & Kusum Harjai 

QRDR mutations, efflux system & antimicrobial resistance genes in enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli isolated from an outbreak of diarrhoea in Ahmedabad, India
G.P. Pazhani, S. Chakraborty, K. Fujihara, S. Yamasaki, A. Ghosh, G.B. Nair & T. Ramamurthy  

Effect of Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy in iron deficiency anaemia of pregnancy – A pilot study
Ria Malik, Kiran Guleria, Iqbal Kaur, Meera Sikka & Gita Radhakrishnan 

Correspondences

A bibliometric analysis of published non-communicable disease research in India
Prem Kumar Mony & Krishnamachari Srinivasan 

Emergence of dengue in Andaman & Nicobar archipelago: Eco-epidemiological perspective
P. Vijayachari, S.S. Singh, A.P. Sugunan, A.N. Shriram, S.P. Manimunda, A.P. Bharadwaj, M. Singhania, Cyril Gladeus & Debdutta Bhattacharya  

Tertiary trauma care centre & antimicrobial resistance
Oral Oncül 

Book Reviews

Vidushi - The Indian women in science & technology 

Principles of translational science in medicine: From bench to bedside 

Endemic skeletal fluorosis 

Some Forthcoming Scientific Events 

Announcements 

Guidelines for Contributors