ABSTRACT Mobile-phone technology is growing rapidly so it is an opportunity to disseminate information on the nutritional status for community counseling. Experimental and qualitative research objectives are to develop and install software on the phone for nutritional counseling and interviewing respondents about the use of the software, identify about nutritional resources and the character…
Introduction: Typhoid fever remains a global health problem. A large use of antibiotics can lead to resistance and allergy medications. Treatment with traditional ingredients earthworm has long been used to treat typhoid fever. Several studies have proven the earthworm Lurnbricus rubellus extract can inhibit the growth of Salmonella Orphi in vitro. Objective: To determine the effect of the add…
The Objective of this work was to formulate and evaluate captopril gel to assess its suitability for transdermal delivery by passive and iontophoresis. A polymer gel was prepared using hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose and in vitro skin permeability was assessed in full thickness skin of rabbits and pigs. For in vivo studies New Zealand rabbits were used. In vitro passive permeation was carried ou…
Analysis of pharmaceutical products covers all aspects of quality control of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and finished products. Today, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, especially in combination with chemometrics software, has emerged as one of the promising analytical techniques to be used in pharmaceutical industry, particularly for quality control of desired pharmac…
CD4 count is a marker for initial and follow up antiretroviral therapy (ART) in HIV/AIDS patients. It requires expensive equipment and skill to performed. World Health Organization (WHO) recommends total Iymphocyte count (TLC) as a substitute marker for CfJ4 count to start ART. The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between CD4 count and TLC in baseline and follow up data as a gu…
Background: The foremost problems of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) management are high loco-regional remission, local recurrence and spreading rate post therapy. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been done for treatment of tumors less than 1 cm in size and depth in a very diffzcult location, where radical excision by surgery was not possible. The aim of th is study is determining 5-year-overall s…
Background Hyperbilirubinemia is one of the mosi cornmon problems in newborns and the phototherapv is the mas! widespread treatment for lowerinq bilirubin concentration in newborns. The phototherapy ;Nith near distance could increase the effectiveness of phctotherapy . Objective : To compare the effectivenass of phototherapy with 40 cm and 60 cm distance toward bilirubin's lowering concentrat…