Meta-analysis on Effectiveness of Palliative Care versus Conventional Care amongst Advanced Gynaecological Patients with Cancer and Caregivers.

In cancer patients, physical and psychological issues are very common. There is a need for family support and high utilisation of healthcare resources commonly. Palliative care (PC) has grown in popularity to better fulfil of needs of patients and their families and potentially lowering hospital costs.

Concise Synthesis of 1,1-Diarylvinyl Sulfones and Investigations on their Antiproliferative Activity Tubulin Inhibition.

Background: Discovery of small molecules that inhibit tubulin polymerization is an attractive strategy for the development of new and improved anti-proliferative agents.

Objective: A series of novel 2-sulfonyl-1,1-diarylethenes were designed towards this end keeping in view the favorable chemical and pharmacological virtues of unsaturated sulfones.

Methods: Rapid, convenient and efficient two-step assembly of the designed molecules was achieved by the vicinal iodo-sulfonylation-Suzuki coupling sequence.

X-Ray Diffraction of different samples of Swarna Makshika Bhasma.

Introduction: Shodhana and Marana are a series of complex procedures that identify the undesirable effects of heavy metals/minerals and convert them into absorbable and assimilable forms. Study on the analytical levels is essential to evaluate the structural and chemical changes that take place during and after following such procedures as described in major classical texts to understand the mystery behind these processes. X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) helps to identify and characterize minerals/metals and fix up the particular characteristics pattern of prepared Bhasma.

Diversity of Apple mosaic virus Isolates in India Based on Coat Protein and Movement Protein Genes.

Apple mosaic virus (ApMV), an Ilarvirus is one of the most common pathogens of apple worldwide. During field surveys in commercial plantations of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir, observations of bright chlorotic mosaic like symptoms on apple trees indicated probable infection by the virus, which was later detected by double antibody sandwich-enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (DAS-ELISA). An incidence of 24 and 28% (based on ELISA) was obtained as 6/25 and 15/53 samples from HP and J&K were positive, respectively.

Therapeutic uses of Swarnamakshika Bhasma (A Critical Review).

Mineral drugs play an important role in Ayurvedic therapeutics. Looking to the superiority of the metals and minerals to that of herbal and animal drugs, the Rasavaidyas went on experimenting clinical trials over lot of metals and minerals and systematically separated some of them which were exclusively active therapeutically. Swarnamakshika is one such mineral which after proper purification and incineration become highly potent and utilised for diseases like Jwara, Pandu, Prameha, Shwasa, Kasa, Kushtha, Anidra, Apasmar etc.