Validation of the Risk Score for Maternal Cardiac Complications in Women with Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy: A Retrospective Study.

Aim Of The Study: To validate the new cardiac risk scoring system, Sheela's Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy (SHE-CDIP), in predicting the cardiac complications in women with cardiac disease in pregnancy.

Materials And Methods: The study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital in South India, over a period of 5 years from January 2010 to January 2015. Pregnant women with heart disease included in this study were 102, and data was collected from medical records.

Relationship of Early Vitamin D Concentrations and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Indian Pregnant Women.

A high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency exists in pregnant Indian women (~90%). Increasing evidence suggests that vitamin D could play a pivotal role in maintaining normal glucose homeostasis. We aimed to determine the association between maternal vitamin D concentrations in early pregnancy and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).

Adoption and Completeness of Documentation Using a Structured Delivery Record in Secondary Care, Subdistrict Government Hospitals of Karnataka State, India.

Objective: Poor medical record documentation remains a pervasive problem in hospital delivery rooms, hampering efforts aimed at improving the quality of maternal and neonatal care in resource-limited settings. We evaluated the feasibility and completeness of labor room documentation within a quasi-experimental study aimed at improving emergency preparedness for obstetric and neonatal emergencies in 8 nonteaching, subdistrict, secondary care hospitals of Karnataka state, India.

Methods: We redesigned the existing open-ended case sheet into a structured, delivery record cum job aide adhering to principles of local clinical relevance, parsimony, and computerizability.

Screening for in vitro cytotoxic activity of seaweed, Sargassum sp. against Hep-2 and MCF-7 cancer cell lines.

Discovery of anticancer drugs that kill or disable tumor cells in the presence of normal cells without undue toxicity is a potential challenge for therapeutic care. Several papers in the literature have emphasized the potential implications of marine products such as seaweeds which exhibit antitumor activity. Study attempts to screen the antitumor effect of Sargassum sp, against chosen cell lines such as MCF-7 (Breast cancer) and Hep-2 (Liver Cancer).