Prediction of Micro- and Macrovascular Complications in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus using Heart Rate Variability.

Objective: To explore the utility of heart rate variability (HRV), a noninvasive marker of cardiac autonomic activity, as a prescreening tool for the prediction of micro- and macrovascular complications in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

Methods: Consenting type 2 diabetic patients of both genders between 30 and 70 years, without known micro- and macrovascular complications of diabetes, were enrolled. Patients with medications affecting the HRV were excluded.

Improving newborn screening in India: Disease gaps and quality control.

In India, newborn screening (NBS) is essential for detecting health problems in infants. Despite significant progress, significant gaps and challenges persist. India has made great strides in genomics dueto the existence of the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics in West Bengal.

Monkeypox: What do we know so far? A short narrative review of literature.

Monkeypox was a zoonotic infection, first detected in parts of northern Africa in the 1970s. Monkeypoxvirus, the causative agent of monkeypox, is a species of genus Orthopoxvirus and is closely related to long-eradicated smallpox caused by variola virus. Outbreaks in the West (in USA, UK, and Ireland) along with periodic re-emergence of the disease in parts of Africa have generated concern among global health bodies due to the existent deficiency of guidelines for management of the disease.