Kangaroo mother care utilization at stepdown ward of a tertiary care teaching hospital: a quality improvement study.

Purpose: India has the highest burden of preterm/low birth weight newborns. To tackle this, Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) needs to be scaled up. We did a quality improvement (QI) study to increase KMC coverage to 80% and its utilization to at least 4 h/infant/day.

Drug Nanocrystals: A Comprehensive Review with Current Regulatory Guidelines.

Drug nanocrystals offer an attractive approach for improving the solubility and dissolution rate of poorly soluble drugs which accounts for nearly 40 % newly discovered drug molecules. Both methods for manufacturing drug nanocrystals have high industrial acceptability for being simple and easy to scale which is evident from the number of approved products available in the market. Ability to modify multiple aspects of dosage form like bioavailability, release pattern and dosage form requirement along with flexibility in choosing final dosage form starting from the tablet, capsule, suspension to parenteral one, have made nanocrystal technology one of the very promising and adaptable technology for dosage form design.

Formulation, evaluation and optimization of the felodipine nanosuspension to be used for direct compression to tablet for in vitro dissolution enhancement.

The oral bioavailability of felodipine very low, nearly just 15% due to its limited solubility and high first pass metabolism. The present study was aimed to improve the rate of the dissolution of Felodipine by formulating a nano suspension of it by combination of high-speed homogenization and media milling technique. Stabilizers screened in this study were Poloxamer 401, HPMC K15M and Tween 80.

Air gasification of rice husk in bubbling fluidized bed reactor with bed heating by conventional charcoal.

An experimental study of air gasification of rice husk was conducted in a bench-scale fluidized bed gasifier (FBG) having 210 mm diameter and 1600 mm height. Heating of sand bed material was performed using conventional charcoal fuel. Different operating conditions like bed temperature, feeding rate and equivalence ratio (ER) varied in the range of 750-850 °C, 25-31.