Volume 9, Issue 3

Subhrojyoti Bhowmick, Ashok K. Shenoy

pp. 121–5 · DOI: 10.4103/jpp.JPP_82_18 · 2018

Over the past decade, the health-care sector in India has made significant progress. It is presently one of India’s largest sectors, in terms of revenue and employment, and is continuing to expand rapidly. The huge pool …

Arthi Balsundaram, Darling Chellathai

pp. 126–30 · DOI: 10.4103/jpp.JPP_77_18 · 2018

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune, chronic degenerative neuroinflammatory disorder affecting younger age groups of the United States of America and Europe. MS prevalence studies in India have shown that India is n…

Maurizio Sessa, Claudia Rossi, Annamaria Mascolo, Antonella Scafuro, Rosanna Ruggiero, Gabriella di Mauro, Salvatore Cappabianca, Roberto Grassi, Liberata Sportiello, Concetta Rafaniello

pp. 131–146 · DOI: 10.4103/jpp.JPP_92_18 · 2018

The aim of this study was to investigate the scientific contribution of Italian clinical research for contrast media‑induced nonrenal adverse drug reactions over the last three decades. Ovid Embase, Ovid MEDLINE, Web of …

Urwashi I. Parmar, Raakhi K. Tripathi, Snehalata V. Gajbhiye, Nirmala N. Rege

pp. 147–152 · DOI: 10.4103/jpp.JPP_54_18 · 2018

Objective: To evaluate the perception of 2nd-year medical undergraduates on pharmacology museum as teaching–learning (TL) tool. Materials and Methods: The Institutional Ethics Committee permission was taken before initia…

Jayesh Dalpatbhai Solanki, Hemant B. Mehta, Sunil J. Panjwani, Hirava B. Munshi, Chinmay J. Shah

pp. 153–159 · DOI: 10.4103/jpp.JPP_59_18 · 2018

Objective: To study the effect of different classes and combinations of antihypertensive agents on arterial stiffness and central hemodynamic parameters. Materials and Methods: A cross‑sectional study was conducted in 44…

Debranjan Datta, Sunil Kumar Pandey, Sanjiba Datta, Yogesh Verma

pp. 160–164 · DOI: 10.4103/jpp.JPP_13_18 · 2018

Objective: To recognize comorbid medical and psychiatric illness of treatment-seeking prescription opioid abusers in Sikkim. Setting and Design: A cross‑sectional descriptive study was conducted among 223 individuals who…

Neville F. Ford

pp. 165–6 · DOI: 10.4103/jpp.JPP_56_18 · 2018

A review of opioid and benzodiazepine abuse has been published.[8] The authors are from the Division of Substance Abuse of the New York Psychiatric Institute. They reviewed the efforts to explain why patients using opioi…