From the Editor
M. Shamsur Rahman
In our country, our food habits, the poverty of the people, and the warm and humid weather make us all susceptible to diseases and disorders of the gastroenteric tract. More recently the use of hazardous and prohibited chemicals in raw and processed foods, such as dyes and preservatives, has increase the risk of Digestive Disorders.
The cover story of this issue is Digestive Disorders which deals with prevention, treatment and cure of such diseases. Among the disorders affecting the gastroenteric tract are gastric influenza, gastritis, gas, hiatus hernia, gastroenteritis of the newborn, diarrhoeal diseases, stomach and colon cancer, colitis, ulcers, typhoid (otherwise termed enteric fever) and many others. Some of these disorders have been covered in this issue.
It has been said that all of the diseases prevalent in the world, only twenty-six have known empirical cures. Others are supposedly being treated by guesswork. But as the frontiers of knowledge advance with time, the doctors and medical researchers are coming to grips with the symptoms, prevention, and cures for many more of the diseases that have remained intractable to previous research. We, in this journal, and in our humble way, are trying to keep up with the advances in health and medical research, and presenting the latest information and research results on diseases that afflict mankind.
