Association of sunlight exposure with visual impairment in an Indian fishing community.

Purpose: Indian fishermen belong to a marginalized population and are continuously exposed to extreme occupational hazards and sunlight. A high prevalence of visual impairment (VI) is reported in the coastal fishing community. We aimed to investigate the association between VI and sunlight exposure measurement (SEM).

Aspiration of hijab pin is sharply rising among young women---A preventable health problem.

Introduction: Foreign body aspiration is a common life threatening emergency but largely a preventable problem. There is an increase in the number of headscarf pin aspiration cases among young girls as a result of increase in the number of veiling population. With the number of hijab wearing population increasing all over the world, attention must be brought to the risk associated with holding the hijab pins in the mouth.

Efficacy and Cost Comparison of Ertapenem as Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy in Acute Pyelonephritis due to Extended-spectrum Beta-lactamase-producing .

Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) programs are becoming an increasingly popular trend in clinical practice as they offer several benefits to both patients and health-care setups. While OPAT is an established clinical practice in the Western world, the concept itself is alien to patients in India as they prefer the security of hospitals to receive antibiotics over OPAT. We evaluated the clinical response and cost comparison of ertapenem under OPAT versus inpatient settings in patients with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-positive acute pyelonephritis (APN) given the increasing importance of optimizing both hospital beds and overall cost of patient care in India.