Aims: HIV and AIDS is a major public health challenge and India alone accounts for 2.5 million of the Asian sub continent 2009 estimated 4.89 million people were living with HIV/AIDS. The oral manifestations are often among the first symptoms of HIV/AIDS and thus can be useful in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/16485
Aim: We report an extremely unusual case of thyrotoxicosis presenting as recurrent acute flaccid quadriparesis in a south Indian male. This case is reported to disseminate knowledge about this rare presentation of thyrotoxicosis among medical professionals. Presentation of Case:...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21942
Background: Influenza is an acute respiratory disease that has caused pandemic in birds and humans. Therefore, this study was designed to isolate and identify influenza A virus strains from live bird handlers in life bird markets (LBM) and poultry farms in Ibadan metropolis. Meth...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21056
Background: Evolution of Alzheimer’s disease from the onset of dementia to death is estimated by different authors as lasting between a few months and 21 years. Objective: To verify whether there is an explanation for this dispersion of evolution of cases, starting only from clin...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21800
Introduction: The prevalence of disabling hearing loss for adults and children is greatest in South Asia followed by Asia Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa. Nepal is one of the least developed nation where hearing loss and ear diseases is very common. Objective: To find out the patt...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21757
This reserach study investigated how satisfied medical workers comprising of doctors, nurses and hospital administrators were with their jobs and roles in the hospital setting. The research specifically sort to unveil whether doctors were more satisfied than nurses and or adminis...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/15045
Background: Physical activity is the cheapest way the prevention of diseases of civilization, the increase of the utilitarian physical fitness and the improvement of well-being of adults. The participation of people in health training (HT) should be a priority of social policy to...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20549
Aims: In order to minimize damage to DCD (deceased cardiac donors) pancreatic grafts the donor surgery has to proceed as quickly as possible. Because of this previous studies have suggested that organs procured (liver and kidney) from DCD donors have higher discard rates. The aim...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/17645
Carotid Body Tumors (CBT) are rare neoplasms that are represent 0.5% of neoplasms of the head and neck. In the current report, we present the case of a patient with syncope and recurrent dyspnea attack who, after other causes had been ruled out, was found to have a left-sided CBT...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20194
Aims: As part of risk assessment, we explored health impacts of consuming polluted water with fluoride in an exposed population in the region of Berka in the mining area of Gafsa. The main objective of this study was to evaluate and prioritize the health risks of polluted water w...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20354