Prevalence of Vision Problems and Associated Risk Factors Among Secondary Government School Girls: A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study in Western Maharashtra, India.

Background: Visual health is crucial for academic and psychosocial development in school children. The increasing use of digital devices and reduced outdoor activities post-COVID-19 have contributed to rising vision problems, especially in school children. However, there is still limited data available from urban government schools in India.

Integrating tuberculosis care cascade activities into medical education and training: experiences from a pilot intervention from rural Maharashtra, India.

India has the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in the world. The mandatory Family Adoption Programme (FAP) visits to adopted villages by medical college teams is an excellent opportunity to do the ideal "community screening" for TB in a door-to-door manner. We nested an active case finding activity for TB in the FAP visits by MBBS students in rural Pune, Maharashtra and the learnings and recommendations from this pilot intervention are detailed here.

Comparative Evaluation of Obturation Quality Using Three Different Obturation Techniques in Primary Teeth: A Conebeam Computed Tomography Analysis: Study.

Context: Pulpectomy is recommended for primary teeth when both the coronal and radicular pulp tissues are irreversibly damaged. Biomechanical preparation of root canals is essential for the success of endodontic treatment. Achieving the optimal length during obturation while minimizing voids and ensuring a hermetic seal is crucial for the success of pulpectomy procedures.

Research on phage λ: a lucky choice.

Bacteriophage λ is a paradigm in the field of gene regulation and one of the best-understood systems in genetic regulatory biology. A so-called Genetic Switch determines the mechanisms by which λ transitions to its dual lifestyles-lytic or lysogenic. When λ initiates the lysogenic lifestyle, the phage-encoded CI repressor binds cooperatively to multi-partite operators in a defined pattern that autoregulates repression of phage lytic promoters as well as activation of the lysogenic promoter.