"Responding to an Epidemic Requires a Compassionate State": How Has the Indian State Been Doing in the Time of COVID-19?

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian government, led by Narendra Modi, imposed a stringent lockdown with only four hours notice. It paid no attention to the millions of migrants who work on a temporary basis in Indian cities. Most lost their livelihoods as a result of the lockdown, and millions sought to return to their native villages.

Spasticity in practice (SPACE): an international non-interventional study of botulinum neurotoxin type A in treatment-naïve subjects with spasticity.

Aim Of The Study: SPACE, a prospective, non-interventional, open-label, multinational study, investigated physicians' and subjects' assessment of safety, efficacy, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) following botulinum neurotoxin type A (BoNT-A) treatment to understand real-world clinical usage for the management of focal and multifocal spasticity.

Clinical Rationale For The Study: Treatment guidelines recommend the use of BoNT-A for the management of spasticity in adults. This study assessed how physicians use BoNT-A therapy in real-world clinical practice, and provided evidence on long-term safety and efficacy over a period of up to 2 years.

Clinical movement assessments do not differ between collegiate athletes with and without chronic ankle instability.

Objectives: To determine if overall Landing Error Scoring System-17 (LESS-17) and Fusionetics scores differ between collegiate athletes with and without chronic ankle instability (CAI). We also aimed to determine if the rate of specific movement errors during the LESS-17 and Fusionetics differed between the groups.

Design: Case-Control.

A gas cell apparatus for measuring charge exchange cross sections with multicharged ions.

A gas cell apparatus to measure charge exchange cross sections for charge state- and energy-resolved ion beams with neutrals is described. The design features a short well-defined interaction region required for beams of multicharged ions with high cross sections. Our method includes measuring the beam transmission at four different neutral pressures and extracting the cross section from the slope of a beam loss vs pressure plot.