Publications by authors named "Angsumita Pramanick"

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  • The study focuses on preventing early childhood caries (ECC), a common disease in kids, by empowering parents with technology-enabled support to improve their children's diets and oral hygiene practices.
  • Participants will include mother-child pairs from Singapore who will either receive traditional educational materials or attend online sessions designed to enhance parental involvement and support; various assessments will track the incidence of caries and other related outcomes.
  • With ethical approval in place, the study aims to publish its findings in peer-reviewed journals, contributing valuable insights on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the intervention.
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There are over 50 SARS-CoV-2 candidate vaccines undergoing Phase II and III clinical trials. Several vaccines have been approved by regulatory authorities and rolled out for use in different countries. Due to concerns of potential teratogenicity or adverse effect on maternal physiology, pregnancy has been a specific exclusion criterion for most vaccine trials with only two trials not excluding pregnant women.

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Placental site nodule (PSN) is a rare benign lesion of the intermediate trophoblast which is thought to represent incomplete involution of the placental implantation site. PSN usually presents as menorrhagia, intermenstrual bleeding or an abnormal Pap smear. PSN is benign, but it is important to distinguish it from the other benign and malignant lesions like decidua, placental polyp, exaggerated placental site and placental site trophoblastic tumour.

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Objective: To assess the clinical profile of pregnant/puerperal women from a semi-urban Indian population who were infected with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus (P[H1N1]2009v) and to evaluate their outcome.

Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 566 women (79 pregnant/puerperal, 487 nonpregnant) who presented to a tertiary care hospital with influenza-like illness were tested for P(H1N1)2009v by real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. Outcomes measures were the maternal mortality and the perinatal mortality rate (PMR).

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