Acne is one of the major manifestations in patient with PCOS. Although acne is detected only in about 23-35% of patients with PCOS, some studies show a high prevalence of PCOS in acne patients. Acne has an overall prevalence in women of about 12%, tends to persist till menopause, and then declines with age.Hyperinsulinemia, insulin resistance and hyperandrogenemia are some endocrine findings in adults with PCOS.Hyperandrogenism characterized clinically as Acne, Hirsutism, Androgenic alopecia and/or chronic anovulation in the absence of specific adrenal and/or pituitary disease. Clinically,...

Aim of the present work was to carry out pharmacoepidemiological survey of some marketed polyherbal antidiabetic formulations through the questionnaires evaluating the views of doctors, patients, pharmacists and herbal industries. We then evaluated some phytochemical and analytical quality control parameters for some selected herbal preparations and developed HPTLC methods for quantitative estimation of biomarkers like curcumin, charantin and swetiamarin in some polyherbal formulations like Diabecon(R) (The Himalaya Drug Company, Bangalore), Mersina(R) (J & J Dechane Lab. Pvt. Ltd.,...