Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc Introduction: Vitamin-fortified products in everyday diet have been gaining a lot of attention amongst researchers targeting nutritional deficiency. Amongst women of reproductive age in countries with limited resources, 90% are reported to be receiving insufficient folate in their diet. Many such countries are also reporting low levels of vitamin B12, which usually […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University, Kolkata World Sickle Cell Awareness Day is celebrated on June 19 every year to heighten awareness about the genetic disorder Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). The disease is naturally found in people from all over Africa, Southern America, Central America, Saudi Arabia, India, Northern Turkey, and in a few pockets of Italy. […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are a class of medicines that work on the cells which are lining the stomach, reducing the production of acid in our stomach. They can treat heartburn and gastric acid reflux by irreversibly binding with the Na+ H+ ATPase located on the surface of gastric parietal cells.PPIs […]
