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BACKGROUNDRubella, also called German measles, is a disease of childhood. In the absence of pregnancy, it is usually clinically manifested as a mild self-limited infection. But a woman infected with the Rubella virus during the early stage of pregnancy has a 90% chance of transmitting it to the foetus. The virus can cause hearing impairments, eye and heart defects and brain damage in newborns, and even spontaneous abortion and foetal deaths. Of the 1,10,000 children born with CRS every year globally, an estimated 40,000 cases occur in India alone. A single dose of Rubella vaccine gives more than 95% long-lasting immunity. Aims and Objectives-To study about Knowledge, Attitude & Practice (KAP) on Rubella vaccine among adolescent girls attending GYN OPD of BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur and the factors influencing KAP towards Rubella vaccination among adolescent girls.

Background: The objective of study was to assess the growth and development of low-birth-weight (LBW) infants.Methods: The study was conducted in community health center of Sanwer Tehsil (Indore District) in the state of Madhya Pradesh under the department of community medicine of Sri Aurobindo medical college and PG institute, Indore. A total of 150 babies were registered and followed up for study.Results: Male preponderance was observed in our study with 70 males and 66 females. Out of total 80 LBW neonates (44 males and 36 females), 6 were home deliveries, while similar equal distribution among primipara and bipara (34 and 30 respectively) was noted. It was found that maximum number of LBW infants (11.76%) were found in the mothers age group of 21 and 25.Conclusions: c2 value suggested that parity was not significantly correlated to LBW but multiparas with >3 deliveries were more prone to deliver a low-birth-weight baby. National programmes targeting to address low birth weight are the need of the hour.

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Aim/Background: Chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting is one of the most distressing side effects of highly emetogenic chemotherapy regimens. There have been continuous efforts in the direction to control Chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) by many investigators.Methods: Randomly selected patients were those receiving highly emetogenic chemotherapy regimen grouped into yoga and standard antiemetic therapy (n = 50) just prior to receiving chemotherapy and continued for the following days and other group (n = 50) received only the standard antiemetic agent. Both the groups were assessed, followed for acute and delayed onset of chemotherapy induced and anticipatory nausea and vomiting using RTOG grading for the same. We also assessed the Quality of Life of the patient using the FACT-G questionnaire. Results: The median age group of the patients was 51 years with M:F 2:1, ECOG performance status 0/1,2 38% v/s 62%. In Yoga arm insignificant reduction in chemotherapy induced nausea (90% vs 78%, p = .35) and but significant reduction in vomiting (42% vs 22%, p =