Osteoporosis is a disease characterised by a loss of bone mass and the structure deterioration of bone tissue, resulting in bone fragility and fractures. This disease imposes major burden on the health economy and being recognised as one of the major public health problems worldwide. To date, many strategies have been developed with the aim of preventing bone loss and increasing bone mass, these include involvement in physical activity programmes and through appropriate nutritional intake. Honey contains mainly carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and magnesium, which are believed to be important for enhancing bone health. This article discusses the findings of several research studies on bone properties and blood bone metabolism markers in response to combined exercises and honey supplementation in animals and humans, which have been carried out by the bone and exercise research team of Universiti Sains Malaysia.
This study investigated the effects of 6 weeks combined circuit training programme and honey
supplementation on bone metabolism markers in young males. Forty male participants were divided into four
groups (n=10 per group): sedentary without honey supplementation control (C), sedentary with honey
supplementation (H), circuit training without honey supplementation (Ex), circuit training with honey
supplementation (HEx) groups. Circuit training was carried out one hour/session, 3 times/week. Participants in
H and HEx consumed 300 mLof honey drink containing 20g of Tualang honey for 7 days/week. Immediately
before and after six weeks of experimental period, blood samples were taken for measuring concentrations of
serum total calcium, serum alkaline phosphatase as bone formation marker and serum C-terminal telopeptide
of type 1 collagen (1CTP) as bone resorption marker. There was significantly (p
Globally, the spread of HIV/AIDS is a major public health challenge because of its pandemic magnitudes. Despite the fact that people of any age are susceptible to HIV, the younger population is more susceptible to be infected because of their lifestyle choices. The purpose of this study was to assess the extent of HIV/AIDS knowledge level among health science undergraduate university students as they play a primary role within the health care system of a country. A cross-sectional study was conducted by using a semi structured, self-administered, especially design questionnaire. Out of total one hundred fifty undergraduate university students, there were 96 males (64%) and 54 females (36%) with the age ranging from 19-25 years. All the students were able to write the acronym of HIV (100%) and AIDS (100%). Common routes of transmission and prevention measure were known by majority of the students. Students stated correctly regarding HIV/AIDS transmission from mother to child through pregnancy (18.02%), delivery (15.31%) and breast feeding (11.30%) which was very low level of knowledge. Most of the medical, dental and physiotherapy students had correct knowledge on high risk populace for HIV/AIDS; like singles, intravenous drug user, multiple sex partners and commercial sexual partner. Regarding the preventive measure as hand washing, use of facial mask and sexual abstinent was correctly mentioned by only 31.34%, 34.02% and 28.01% total students respectively. However other safety measure like condom use, effectiveness of condom use, screening of blood was widely known by the students. However, regarding the knowledge on treatment issue of HIV/AIDS, majority of the students (85.30%) correctly knew that HIV/AIDS was not curable, whereas only 15.31% and 20.01% correctly knew that the treatment was very expensive and available respectively. So, this study focus the educational endeavors that could be broadened to emphasis on its general knowledge on HIV/AIDS.
Study site: Medical, Dental and Physiotherapy Faculties at a private university college in Malaysia.
Dengue is endemic in Kolkata, India. Outbreaks of dengue cases often occur regularly at short intervals. This
retrospective seroepidemiological surveillance was conducted longitudinally. Dengue cases were diagnosed
in the laboratories from suspected patients by dengue specific IgG, IgM antibodies and NS1 antigen, from
suspected persons to investigate, analyze and categorize the cases who were actually suffering from dengue to
diagnose a dengue patient in the laboratory practice along with the status of the patient related to the detection
of disease and duration of primary and secondary infection for effective monitoring of the patient. Age and
Sex of the dengue patients were determined. Detection of dengue in unsuspected fever cases in unfavorable
transmission season was evaluated. The transmission of dengue infection in the non-transmission season is
not remarkable and often remains submerged. Proper measure at this stage may prevent the epidemic
outbreak in the transmission season. This sort of experience will help to enrich the effective control and case
management of the menace.
This study identied factors that contributed to the effectiveness of antihypertensive drugs and investigated the
most effective antihypertensive drug in controlling blood pressure. The purposive sampling technique was
used in this quasi-experimental design to enroll study participants. Of the 120 hypertensive patients following
consultations at a district hospital of Oluvil, only 100 complied with the experiment. Following medical checkup,
it was investigated that hypertension were controlled within 3 months affected by age, and gender. Gender,
more probable were women, was primarily identied as a factor (p=0.002657); and age bracket of 30-40 years
old was also identied as a factor to had helped control blood pressure (p=0.002107). Hypertensive drugs such
as Calcium Channel Blockers (p=0.0008712), Angiotensin Receptor Antagonist (p=0.03983), and
Angiotensin Converting Enzymes Inhibitors (p=0.04719) at normal dosages controlled blood pressures
among Sri Lankan hypertensive patients.