Therapeutic use of music in neurological disorders: A concise narrative review.

Background: Music elicits multifactorial benefits in emotional, social, cognitive, and academic aspects of human life. Music is clinically proven to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve mood and self-expression, particularly after traumatic events. Studies have also demonstrated that music promotes parasympathetic autonomic systems, suppresses hyperactivation of stress responses, and boosts immune functions.

Evaluation of prescriptions from tertiary care hospitals across India for deviations from treatment guidelines & their potential consequences.

Background Objectives: Irrational prescribing practices have major consequences on patient safety and also increase the economic burden. Real-life examples of impact of irrational prescription have potential to improve prescribing practices. In this context, the present study aimed to capture and evaluate the prevalence of deviations from treatment guidelines in the prescriptions, potential consequence/s of the deviations and corrective actions recommended by clinicians.

Assessment of prescribing pattern of drugs and completeness of prescriptions as per the World Health Organization prescribing indicators in various Indian tertiary care centers: A multicentric study by Rational Use of Medicines Centers-Indian Council of Medical Research network under National Virtual Centre Clinical Pharmacology activity.

Objective: The rational use of medicines as per the World Health Organization (WHO) should be practiced globally. However, data regarding the completeness of the prescriptions and their rational use is lacking from developing countries like India. Thus, the aim of this study was to assess the prescribing patterns of drugs and completeness of prescriptions as per WHO core drug use and complementary indicators to provide real-life examples for the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) online prescribing skill course for medical graduates.

Highly effective and stable MWCNT/WO nanocatalyst for ammonia gas sensing, photodegradation of ciprofloxacin and peroxidase mimic activity.

The present study discusses the ammonia (NH) sensing characteristics, photocatalytic degradation of emerging pollutants, and peroxidase mimic activity of multifunctional multi-walled carbon nanotube-tungsten oxide nanocomposite (MWCNT/WO) prepared by conventional solvothermal method. The prepared MWCNT/WO nanocomposites were characterized by various analytical techniques like XRD, Raman, XPS, N adsorption, FESEM with elemental analysis and diffuse reflection spectroscopy. The prepared 1% MWCNT/WO nanocomposite showed better gas sensing performance for the NH vapors at 10-100 ppm than the pristine WO and the response and recover time of about 13 and 15s towards 20 ppm of ammonia (NH) was achieved.