An Open-Label, Investigator-Initiated, Single-Centre Pilot Study to Determine the Safety and Efficacy of Tofacitinib in Resistant Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria.

Background: Chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) is a distressing skin condition characterized by the recurrent appearance of itchy hives. A subset of CSU patients remains resistant to conventional treatment with high-dose antihistamines. Tofacitinib, a Janus kinase inhibitor, has shown promise in various inflammatory skin diseases.

Public health crisis of road traffic accidents in India: Risk factor assessment and recommendations on prevention on the behalf of the Academy of Family Physicians of India.

Roads are considered a sign of development bringing colossal benefits to community as socioeconomic and logistic facilitator. Yet, growth of road network has brought road crashes leading to civic pain from premature deaths of productive age group. In 2017, 16 citizens were killed and 53 injured every hour on Indian roads as per officially reported data, while a fair number go unreported.

Medical Education: The Hot Seat.

Medical science has eventually metamorphosed from 'Knowledge based' to 'Skill based' applied social science. So, the age-old traditional courses and curriculums in Indian medical education need a overhauling with radical modifications. With a paradigm shift, we have to take into account not only the help of scientific feedback from the teachers and students but also from all the stakeholders of health care delivery system.

Assessment of impact of small group teaching among students in community medicine.

Background: We conducted a study to assess the impact of small group teaching (SGT) among students by feedback analysis to identify intricacy so that learning can be facilitated.

Materials And Methods: This cross-sectional study was undertaken among 182 MBBS students studying at a teaching hospital at Gangtok. Students were provided with a questionnaire following an assignment on a scheduled topic.

Clinico-pathological correlates of incidentally revealed thyroid swelling in Bihar, India.

Background: Global prevalence of thyroid cancer has been on the rise in recent decades.

Objectives: To study the clinical presentations to reach an agreement for diagnosis and optimal management of incidentally revealed thyroid swellings for early diagnosis.

Materials And Methods: A prospective study was carried out on 178 cases of incidentally detected thyroid swelling attending a tertiary care teaching institute of Kishanganj Bihar.

The quest for an Indian blood law as of blood transfusion services regulatory framework.

Background: Blood transfusion services are a vital part of the national health delivery system. The responsibility for ensuring a continuous supply of blood rests with health administrators, who need to galvanize entire communities towards regular and non-remunerated blood donation.

Objective: The present study aimed to examine the prevailing global regulations and practices related to blood transfusion and press the case for a dedicated blood law in India.

Blunt splenic injury in Sikkimese children and adolescents.

Background: The contemplation for the salvage operations and the nonoperative treatment for the pediatric splenic injuries had increasingly been suggested as the standard case management.

Objectives: The study was carried out to identify the risk factors, the presentations, the severities and outcome of the interventions of blunt splenic injuries in the children and adolescents.

Materials And Methods: This retrospective review was carried out in a tertiary care hospital in Sikkim on the children and adolescents admitted with splenic injury from January 2005 to December 2009.

Awareness on psychosomatic health among adolescent girls of three schools in north Kolkata.

Introduction: Psychosomatic health of adolescent girls at crossroads of childhood and mature adulthood, may lead to various health problems in future.

Objective: To determine the improvement in the knowledge and attitude on health among adolescent girl students of Kolkata after the health education intervention.

Materials And Methods: This 'Health Education Intervention Study' was conducted in October and November 2006, in three senior secondary schools of North Kolkata.

Fine needle aspiration cytology as the primary diagnostic tool in thyroid enlargement.

Background: In the preoperative decision-making of the thyroid swellings, fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is becoming an ever more vital tool.

Objectives: To compare the advantage of preoperative FNAC of thyroid swellings with postoperative histopathology to reach a consensus protocol as a simple procedure for diagnosis and optimal management of thyroid swellings.

Materials And Methods: A prospective study of preoperative FNAC was carried out on 178 incidental thyroid swellings attending a tertiary care centre in Kishanganj, Bihar.

Obesity in Kolkata children: Magnitude in relationship to hypertension.

Background: Limited data is available from India regarding the distribution and profile of childhood obesity and hypertension.

Materials And Methods: A population based cross-sectional study was conducted in the urban schools of Kolkata. Using stratified random sampling method, 979 participants were selected.

Prevalence of bronchial asthma in Indian children.

Background: The prevalence of childhood bronchial asthma and allergic disease has increased in developed countries. Studies have identified asthma among Indian children. Still, there is paucity of information on the overall prevalence of childhood asthma in India.

Health education intervention on diabetes in Sikkim.

Introduction: In the present study, we have sought to determine the existing Knowledge, attitude & practice and impact of a structured health education intervention regarding diabetes in adults in Sikkim.

Materials And Methods: This was an experimental study of non-randomised trial done at the Central Referral Hospital of SMIMS, Sikkim, India on 189 adult individuals attending the 'Diabetes Awareness Camp'. A pre-tested closed ended questionnaire was used to assess the impact of health education intervention.