Piggyback Scleral Contact Lens to Enhance Cosmesis and Comfort in Uniocular Stevens-Johnson Syndrome.

Stevens-Johnson syndrome often results in a significant reduction in vision, dryness, and photophobia based on severity. Scleral lenses are well-considered visual interventions that enhance vision and comfort, resulting in an increased quality of life for patients. This case report describes the enhancement of comfort, cosmesis, and reduction of photophobia using a piggyback system (scleral contact lenses over a prosthetic contact lens), whereas the other modalities were unsatisfactory.

DNA Methylation of Is Associated with Early-Life Adversity in Adult Mental Disorders.

Early-life adversity (ELA) is characterized by exposure to traumatic events during early periods of life, particularly involving emotional, sexual and/or physical adversities during childhood. Mental disorders are strongly influenced by environmental and lifestyle-related risk factors including ELA. However, the molecular link between ELA and the risk of an adult mental disorder is still not fully understood.

Hybrid manifold smoothing and label propagation technique for Kannada handwritten character recognition.

Handwritten character recognition is one of the classical problems in the field of image classification. Supervised learning techniques using deep learning models are highly effective in their application to handwritten character recognition. However, they require a large dataset of labeled samples to achieve good accuracies.

EMBRACE (Empowering Medical students' skills in BReaking bAd news with Compassion and Empathy) module improves the skills of undergraduate medical students in effectively breaking the bad news: a case-control study.

Effective communication skills are pivotal in health care, particularly when conveying distressing information to patients and their families. However, medical education still lacks the adoption of a universal model that can be incorporated into the curricula to train and assess students in effectively communicating with patients. This study aims to assess the impact of training undergraduate medical students to deliver bad news effectively using the Empowering Medical students' skills in BReaking bAd news with Compassion and Empathy (EMBRACE) module.

Transadaptation and Validation of the Telugu Version of the Dysphagia Handicap Index.

Dysphagia Handicap Index (DHI) is a clinically effective, concise, and user-friendly tool for assessing the functional impact of dysphagia in clinical populations. The present study aims to trans-adapt the DHI in the Telugu language and assesses its psychometric properties. The present study was conducted in two phases.