Background: Plant based medicines have over the years contributed to treat diseases and illnesses. Infectious diseases have become a leading cause for premature deaths worldwide. Evidence based validation of medicinal ...

Background: Infectious diseases have been a leading course of morbidity and mortality in the world. In western medicine antibiotics are used in the treatment of infectious diseases for decades. However, treatment with ...

Background: Improving the skills of first aid and safety measures in school children are of great importance as it helps to prevent, minimize the extension and complications of injuries. Objectives: To determine the ...

Background: Palliative care (PC) consist of providing, comfort, support and quality of life to patients who are living with life threatening diseases. Each year there is forty million people who need palliative ...

Background: Unplanned pregnancies had rapidly emerged as a social issue that severely deteriorates the quality of life of parents and children. It can be prevented by using contraceptive methods. Since nurses are an ...

Background: During the past decade, the beggar population in Sri Lanka has been increasing at a rate of nearly 1,000 a year. By 2002, two thousand seven hundred child beggars could be identified and it has inclined to ...

Background: Estimation of plasma glucose using glucose oxidase/peroxidase is one of the most frequently used assays in clinical biochemistry laboratories. Although, commercial reagents are widely used, for large scale ...

Background: Antibiotic resistance has been identified as a significant health issue across the world. Inappropriate antibiotics prescribing by physicians, dispensing antibiotics without prescription and counseling by ...

Background: Calcium concentration in drinking water provides bio availability in human body which is as high as that of milk and milk products. The average daily water intake of a human via drinking is 1.7 L. It is not ...

Background: The primary test in the diagnosis and management of diabetes mellitus is the plasma glucose concentration. Venous blood is collected into tubes that contain antiglycolytic agents to prevent in vitro glycolysis. ...