Health matters: a statistical approach to understand childhood illnesses in the North-East States of India, 2019-2021.

The present study explores the prevalence and socio-economic demographic factors affecting childhood illnesses. Diarrhoea, fever and ARI among under-five children in the North -East states of India using NFHS-5 data Kids file. Results showed that diarrhoea, ARI, and fever among the northeastern states were highest in Meghalaya.

Chemical characterization of automobile windshield glass samples for major, minor, and trace elemental concentration determination by INAA and its comparison with ED-XRF and DC Arc AES in terms of analytical capabilities and possible applications for glass forensics.

Automobile (car) windshield glass fragments serve as important forensic evidentiary materials and their chemical characterization mainly at minor and trace concentration levels is a key step in forensic investigations. For such glass analysis as well as for forensics, direct solid sample analysis by suitable analytical technique(s) is very important. In view of this, instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) using high flux neutrons from research reactor was utilized for chemical characterization of car windshield glass samples.

Measurements of alpha radioactivity in thermal power plant effluents employing CR-39 detector based improved alpha track detection method.

Natural radioactivity is released into the environment during the combustion process of coal at various thermal power plants. Coal contains higher contents of α-emitting radionuclides such as U, Th along with their decay elements, which pose a potential health risk to the population. In the present studies, the effluent waste samples were collected from a coal fired Thermal Power Plant.

Applications of bromelain from pineapple waste towards acne.

Bromelain is a proteolytic mixture obtained from pineapple ( (L. Merr)). It has diversified clinical properties and is used in alleviation of cancer, inflammation and oxidative stress.

Microwave-assisted Heterocyclic Dicarboxylic Acids as Potential Antifungal and Antibacterial Drugs.

A series of new dicarboxylic acid derivatives of 1,3,4-thiadiazines, 1,4-benzopiperizines, 1,4-thiazines, 1,3-thiazoles, 1,3-oxazoles and 1,3-imidazoles have been synthesized in 80-87% yield by the environmentally benign microwave induced technique involving the cyclocondensation of 2,3-dibromosuccinic acid with 2-aminothiophenol, o-phenylene diamine, 1,2,4-triazole, amidinothiocarbamide, amidinocarbamide and guanidine hydrochloride. The structures of all newly synthesized compounds have been established on the basis of analytical and spectral data. Evaluation of antibacterial and antifungal activity showed that almost all compounds exhibited better results than reference drugs thus they could be promising candidates for novel drugs.

Study of ocular drug delivery system using drug-loaded liposomes.

Background: This project aims to formulate and characterize a drug-eluting contact lens to provide controlled release of drug for a longer period of time, using liposomes as drug delivery system.

Materials And Methods: Drug delivering contact lenses were created by coating disposable soft contact lenses with ciprofloxacin entrapped in the liposomes. Reverse phase evaporation and lipid film hydration methods were used for the preparation of ciprofloxacin trapping reverse phase evaporation vesicles, that is, unilamellar vesicles (REVs) and multilamellar vesicles (MLVs), respectively.