A Health Journal

Evidence-based protocols, investigating tools, public health concerns, effectiveness of existing protocols are minutely studied and improvised with time. Investigations related to diseases now explore other factors that were previously deemed unrelated.
A woman’s pregnancy journey leaves physical impact lasting her a lifetime. Hormonal changes throughout this period raises complications with gestational diabetes being the most common endocrine disorder.
Stroke in children? Yes, it happens and happens mostly from trivial head injury from fall. Although minor head injuries are common in childhood and resolves on its own, sometimes it may lead to infarcts causing hemiparesis.
Sexualized drug use (SDU) is a public health concern for raising addiction and spreading sexually transmitted diseases like HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia. Stress, emotional agony, peer pressure, need for social inclusion especially among youths and adolescents, and partners’ pressure are cited to be the cause of drug abuse.
Bite injuries are seldom given importance, yet human and animal bite injuries are a serious global health concern. Upper and lower limbs followed by face are the commonest site of dog bite injury. Younger children are more likely to get bitten in the face and adults on the limbs. The most affected areas of the face are the lips and nose which causes the detrimental mental strain to the affected and the family.
Intra articular distal humerus fractures are one of the most difficult injuries to manage. Double plate osteosynthesis is the standard treatment method, yet controversy exists concerning the plate positions in terms of providing optimal stability of these kind of fractures.