Editorial

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Supreme Court judgment on polygraph, narco-analysis & brain-mapping: A boon or a bane

Suresh Bada Math

Commentaries 

Premature coronary heart disease risk factors & reducing the CHD burden in India 

Dorairaj Prabhakaran & Kavita Singh

Botulism : A diagnostic challenge 

Rama Chaudhry

Female genital tract tuberculosis: How long will it elude diagnosis? 

Mridula Bose

Optimal duration of anticoagulation in patients with venous thromboembolism 

Paolo Prandoni, Chiara Piovella, Luca Spiezia, Fabio Dalla Valle & Raffaele Pesavento

ICMR-DBT Guidelines for Evaluation of Probiotics in Food 

Indian Council of Medical Research Task Force & Co-ordinating Units ICMR & DBT, New Delhi, India

Atherothrombotic risk factors & premature coronary heart disease in India: A case-control study 

Raja Babu Panwar, Rajeev Gupta, Bal Kishan Gupta, Sadiq Raja, Jaishree Vaishnav, Meenakshi Khatri & Aachu Agrawal

Development of immunodetection system for botulinum neurotoxin type B using synthetic gene based recombinant protein 

Swati Jain, S. Ponmariappan & Om Kumar

Evaluating PCR, culture & histopathology in the diagnosis of female genital tuberculosis

R.B.P. Thangappah, C.N. Paramasivan & Sujatha Narayanan 

Assessment of nutritional status in Indian preschool children using WHO 2006 Growth Standards

Prema Ramachandran & Hema S. Gopalan

Fas receptor (CD95) & Fas ligand (CD178) expression in patients with tobacco-related intraoral squamous cell carcinoma 

Satya N. Das, Pratima Khare, Manoj K. Singh & Suresh C. Sharma

Perceived stress, life events & coping among higher secondary students of Hyderabad, India: A pilot study 

Little Flower Augustine, Shahnaz Vazir, Sylvia Fernandez Rao, M. Vishnu Vardhana Rao, A.Laxmaiah & K. Madhavan Nair

Comparison of oxidative stress & leukocyte activation in patients with severe sepsis & burn injury

Diana Mühl, Gábor Woth, Livia Drenkovics, Adrienn Varga, Subhamay Ghosh, Csaba Csontos, Lajos Bogár, György Wéber & János Lantos

Acquired alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency in tropical pulmonary eosinophilia 

Debidas Ray, S. Harikrishna, Chandra Immanuel, Lalitha Victor, Sudha Subramanyam & V. Kumaraswami

Total antioxidant capacity in Eales’ disease, uveitis & cataract 

Radhakrishnan Selvi, Narayanasamy Angayarkanni, Jyotirmay Biswas & Sivaramakrishnan Ramakrishnan

Prevalence of chronic cough, chronic phlegm & associated factors in Mysore, Karnataka, India

 P.A. Mahesh, B.S. Jayaraj, A.K. Prabhakar, S.K. Chaya & R. Vijayasimha

Larvicidal activity of medicinal plant extracts against Anopheles subpictus & Culex tritaeniorhynchus 

C. Kamaraj, A. Bagavan, G. Elango, A. Abduz Zahir, G. Rajakumar, S. Marimuthu, T. Santhoshkumar & A. Abdul Rahuman

Preliminary studies on CD36 gene in type 2 diabetic patients from north India 

Sunaina Gautam, C.G. Agrawal, Hemant Kumar Bid & Monisha Banerjee

Event related potential (ERP) P300 after 6 months residence at 4115 meter 

Lalan Thakur, Koushik Ray, J.P. Anand & Usha Panjwani

A comparative study of the clinico-aetiological profile of hyponatremia at presentation with that developing in the hospital 

S. Mahavir Agarwal & Aparna Agrawal

Seasonal variation & determinants in vitamin D deficiency in healthy breastfed term infants & their mothers in India

Subhash C. Arya & Nirmala Agarwal

Building ethical solidarity between public health & the press against HIV/AIDS-related stigma

 Devaki Nambiar

Stigma haunts persons with mental illness who seek relief as per Disability Act 1995 Suresh

 Bada Math & Maria Christine Nirmala

Dilemma of cultural determinants of health

Vikas Bajpai

Biomedical research: From ideation to publication 

Differential diagnosis in cytopathology 

Microbial - Host interaction: Tolerance versus Allergy

Books Received