Longitudinal Study Investigating the Relationship between Disease Activity and Psychological Status of Patients with Behçet's Disease.

Purpose: To compare longitudinal changes in disease activity with quality of life and psychological status in patients with Behçet's disease (BD).

Methods: Patients attending a National Centre of Excellence for BD over a two-year period had disease activity including clinician and patient perception of disease documented and completed a number of validated quality of life and psychological questionnaires. Some representative case-studies were examined in detail.

Effectiveness And Acceptability Of Ready-To-Use Therapuetic Foods Among Malnourished Children In A Tertiary Care Hospital.

Background: Ready-to-use-therapeutic foods (RUTF) are an important component of the effective outpatient treatment of severe wasting because most of the child deaths in the world especially in developing countries is due to malnutrition. The objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness and acceptability of ready to use therapeutic food among malnourished children in a tertiary care hospital.

Methods: An observational exploratory study based on sixty subjects with 3-120 months of age, malnourished children were chosen by universal sampling from Children Hospital Lahore, Pakistan, during the time period 1st September 2012 to 30th November 2012 with the approval of ethical committee.

Structural, magnetic and electronic structure studies of NdFe(1-x)Ni(x)O(3) (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.3).

We present here the structural, electronic structure, magnetic and Mössbauer studies of NdFe(1-x)Ni(x)O(3) (0≤x≤0.3) samples. All the samples exhibit a single-phase orthorhombic structure with space group Pbnm.