Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome because of skin infection - a case report.

Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) is a toxin-mediated disease. It is a severe fatal disease inducing immune-mediated inflammatory reaction and occurs because of exotoxin produced by Staphylococcus aureus. Common signs and symptoms at the time of presentation lead to misdiagnosis and delay in initiation of treatment.

Prevalence of diabetes related vascular complications in subjects with normal glucose tolerance, prediabetes, newly detected diabetes and known diabetes.

Aims: Varying prevalence of individual diabetes related vascular complications in prediabetes has been reported. However, very few studies have looked at both macrovascular and microvascular complications in prediabetes.

Methods: Study subjects without any history of diabetes underwent oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and were classified as either normal glucose tolerance (NGT), prediabetes (PD), newly detected diabetes mellitus (NDDM) on the basis of American Diabetes Association (ADA) criteria.

Goiter Prevalence and Thyroid Autoimmunity in School Children of Delhi.

Introduction: Several studies from India, performed prior to 2010, have reported a goiter prevalence of greater than five per cent in school going children. There has been considerable success in universal salt iodization efforts in the past decade. We studied the prevalence of goiter and thyroid autoimmunity in school going children in Delhi between 2010 and 2014 to assess the impact of salt iodization.