iosr-JDMS   Volume-15 ~ Issue-3 ~ March-2016

Abstract: Introduction: Mortality and morbidity are highest in low birth weight babies who constitute approximately 25% of all live births in India. Aims: To compute the rate and determine the determinants of mortality and morbidity of low birth weight babies at a medical college hospital.

Keywords: Morbidity, Mortality, LBW, SGA

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Abstract: Context: Most of the social, academic and life skills behaviors develop during adolescence. Habit of substance abuse develops during teenage. Unlike tobacco, alcohol does not only cause harm to its user, but it has its effects on families and community at large. Experimentation with alcohol in earlier years of life has more ruinous effect in later part of life.

Keywords: Adolescent, High School, Alcohol, Behavior, Bhubaneswar

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Abstract: Acquired perforating dermatosis (APD) is an uncommon cutaneous perforating disorder, frequently associated with diabetes mellitus (DM) and chronic renal failure (CRF). This skin disorder may also develop in association with other systemic disorders like malignancy......

Keywords: Acquired perforating dermatosis, dermoscopy, oral cancer, oral squamous cell carcinoma, Reactive perforating collagenosis

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Abstract:Clonidine, an alpha-2-adrenergic agonist, have a clinically relevant analgesic action but also a hypotensive action, when administered spinally. In this study, therefore, the analgesic, hemodynamic effects of intrathecal clonidine were studied in patients undergoing lower abdominal and lower limb surgery under spinal anaesthesia. Sixty patients of ASA I-II were randomly divided to two groups...

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