Prevalence and risk factors of asthma and wheeze in school-going children in Lucknow, North India.

Objective: To assess the prevalence of asthma and wheeze and factors associated with it in children aged 6-7 and 13-14 years.

Method: School based, prospective survey using self/parental reporting of occurrence of asthma or wheeze on pre-designed questionnaire.

Results: Out of 112 schools, 17 and 15 schools were randomly selected for recruitment of subjects in age group 6-7 and 13-14 years, respectively.

Depression as a communicable disorder.

'Communicable disorder' can be defined as a disorder capable of being transmitted in the form of negative emotion(s) from living or non-living being(s) to susceptible host. Thus, communicable disorder is transmitted from the source or reservoir of disorder to the susceptible host. The source of disorder can be defined as the living or non-living being from which the disorder in the form of negative emotion(s) gets transmitted to the susceptible host.

Nutraceutical--definition and introduction.

Dr Stephen DeFelice coined the term "Nutraceutical" from "Nutrition" and "Pharmaceutical" in 1989. The term nutraceutical is being commonly used in marketing but has no regulatory definition. An attempt to redefine nutraceuticals and functional foods is made in this article.