Gymnema lactiferum var. lactiferum is a climber distributed in many South Asian countries. It is reported that the diabetic patients in Sri Lanka use G. lactiferum leaves as a treatment for diabetes. However, scientific ...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic is a serious global health concern, posing a greater risk of psychological vulnerabilities for frontline healthcare workers (HCWs), military professionals and the general public around ...

Vitamin D deficiency influences various disease conditions; thus, it is important to evaluate the social groups for vitamin D deficiency to reduce the risk. Occupation-related factors are believed to be contributing to ...

Background: Sleep plays a significant role in good physiological state and well-being throughout life. Sleep is necessary for children because it directly impacts mental and physical development. Objective: To ...

Adverse events such as medical errors, injuries, or equipment failures which could harm patients, caregivers, or other individuals or has the potential to harm them are known as medical incidents. Avoidance of unintended ...

Nelumbo nucifera is commonly known as “Lotus” which is highly valued in aquatic horticulture in Sri Lanka, and broadly used in the Ayurveda and Siddha systems of medicines. Extracts of different parts of this plant ...

Cumulative lifetime dose of ultra violet (UV) radiation has increased significantly due to many natural and artificial consequences. UV-A and UV-B radiation are considered as the major risk factors for photo dermal ...

Introduction Deodorants are personal hygienic products that are used to avoid distinctive malodorous scents, simple “body odour” of an axillary area of the human body. The body odour is caused by the interaction of ...

Study of the spontaneous self-assembly of molecules in aqueous binary solvent mixture yielding vesicular self-assem blies has been an area of intense research in recent years because of its tremendous potential application ...

Current study focused on the isolation, characterization and evaluation of biological activities of secondary metabolites from C. oblongifolius. Two cembrane type ditepenes; crotocembranal and crotocembraneic acid were ...