National-Scale Assessment of Environmental Justice Trends in Public School Proximity to Industrial Lead Sources.

Background: Lead poisoning can severely affect neurological development in small children. Communities with environmental justice concerns often face higher levels of lead exposure via multiple routes of exposure. School-aged children can be exposed to lead at their schools through the deposition of lead emissions onto soil over time.

Lipid Profile in Alcoholic and Non Alcoholic Patients of Chronic Liver Disease - A Comparative and Analytical Study in a Rural-based Tertiary Care Centre.

Background: The liver is the principal site for formation and clearance of lipoproteins. Here we decided to conduct this study to assess the degree of alteration of serum lipid levels in alcoholic liver disease, to compare the different parameters and to find out if there is any correlation between extent of lipid profile changes and severity of chronic liver disease.

Methods: In this comparative, analytical, cross sectional, institution-based, single centre study, the different parameters of fasting lipid profile were compared among 150 randomly selected subjects - 50 each of alcoholic cirrhosis, non-alcoholic cirrhosis and healthy normal - from the OPD and Indoor Wards of department of General Medicine of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital situated in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal after taking their written and informed consent within a period from July 2015 to June 2016.

Prevalence of the use of complementary and alternative medicine in an eastern Indian population with emphasis on tribal/ethnic minority groups.

Objectives: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) includes various therapies that are not recognized by modern scientific medicine. However, in chronic diseases, such as diabetes, the use of CAM is quite common. Data on the use of CAM are needed to understand the health behaviour of individuals and to identify possible side effects.