Appropriateness of antimicrobial therapy in medical wards of a tertiary care referral hospital and its effect on antibiotic consumption and in-hospital mortality.

Objectives: This study was conducted to find out the appropriateness of antimicrobial therapy in Medical wards of a tertiary care referral hospital in South India. Other objectives were to study the association between appropriateness of antimicrobial therapy and antibiotic consumption and in-hospital patient outcomes.

Methodology: A series of 32 clinical audits were done in the medical wards from January 2018 to June 2019 and a total of 220 patients were included in the study.

Tire-based microplastics: Composition, detection, and impacts of advanced oxidation processes in drinking water treatment.

Microplastic pollution, particularly that from tire, presents critical environmental and public health concerns. They contribute 60 % of the total microplastic pollution. Tire-based microplastics, which contain synthetic polymers and toxic chemical additives, are significant contributors to microplastic pollution in aquatic systems.

A triazole-based covalent organic framework as a photocatalyst toward visible-light-driven CO reduction to CH.

Solar-light driven reduction of CO to CH is a complex process involving multiple electron and proton transfer processes with various intermediates. Therefore, achieving high CH activity and selectivity remains a significant challenge. Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) represent an emerging class of photoactive semiconductors with molecular level structural tunability, modular band gaps, and high charge carrier generation and transport within the network.

Intelligent Alzheimer's Diseases Gene Association Prediction Model Using Deep Regulatory Genomic Neural Networks.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an illness that affects the nervous system, leading to a loss in cognitive and logical abilities. Gene regulatory expressions, which are the complex language exhibited by DNA, serve several functionalities, including the physical and biological life cycle processes in the human body. The gene expression sequence affects the pathology experienced by an individual, its longevity, and potential for a cure.

A man having 'cyst' in the 'cyst'!

Hydatid disease is a zoonotic parasitic infestation caused by tapeworms, particularly . The lung is the second most site followed by liver accounting for 10%-30% of the cases. Rupture of hydatid cyst can occur into pleura or bronchus.