Karyotyping: Current perspectives in diagnosis of chromosomal disorders
A majority of the genetic abnormalities are directly related to the chromosomal aberrations. Cytogenetics is the diagnostic study of the structure and properties of chromosomes and cell division, whic...
A community-based comparative study of prevalence and risk factors of hypertension among urban and rural populations in a coastal town of South India
Background: Hypertension is the new-era pandemic, which causes about 7.1 million deaths per year globally. Various risk factors are implicated in the development of hypertension and there are d...
Aims: For prevention of interfragmentary shear motion in intramedullary nailing, the nail-cortex contact (N-CC) length should be long enough. This study was designed to assess the N-CC length c...
How can we minimize the health-related consequences of El Niρo on millions of people worldwide?
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El Niño refers to the rise in temperature of the central to eastern tropical Pacific Ocean that has influenced both the rainfall patterns and temperature ranges, especially in the tropical ...
Zika virus disease outbreaks in the American region in 2015-2016
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Zika virus is an emerging mosquito-borne virus that was first isolated in humans in 1952 from the African region. It is a flavivirus that is predominantly transmitted by the bite of Aedes mosqui...
International Medical Journal of Sifa University, a publication of Sifa University Faculty of Medicine, is a peer-reviewed online journal with 3 Issues print on demand compilation of issues published. The journal’s full text is available online at http://www.imjsu.org.
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