Background: Around 80% of the 1.1 billion smokers worldwide live in low and middle income countries, where the burden of tobacco-related illness and death is heaviest. Tobacco users who die prematurely deprive their ...

Over the counter (OTC) drugs are drugs that are permissible for purchase and use without a prescription from a healthcare professional. Recently there has been an increase in the use of OTC drugs. The prevalence of medication ...

Nutrition is a critical part of health and development. Pregnancy is a constructive metabolic process and women’s normal nutritional requirement increases during pregnancy to meet the needs of growing fetus and the maternal ...

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) has become a global burden and affects more than 10% of the population. There are many triggering factors which cause progressive and irreversible damage to the kidneys. Diabetes Mellitus (DM) ...

Radiotherapy is the chief non surgical method to control malignant tumors, being used in roughly 50% of patients. This study aimed to assess the awareness of radiotherapy and its side effects among cancer patients admitted ...

Ischemic heart disease is a major cause of death worldwide, accounting for 16% of deaths according to the World Health Organization. It is also the leading cause of hospital deaths in Sri Lanka. Risk factors for Ischemic ...

Societal uptake of a COVID vaccine is a critical concern given that vaccines can only facilitate herd immunity if there is high vaccine coverage among the population. There is a need to identify empirically supported ...