What covariates drive medical students to the brink of suicidal ideation, plan, and attempt? A double-centric cross-sectional study in a resource-constrained rural setting in North India by Sunny Garg, Aakanksha Kharb, Kirti Bansal

“…Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in two medical colleges located in rural Northern India and enrolled 940 medical students for a period of two months from February to March 2022. …”
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Tuberculosis menace: a case report of disseminated tuberculosis presenting as tubercular meningitis and long-segment cervical tuberculous myelitis in a 32-year-old man from rural India by Saket Satyasham Toshniwal, Jiwan S. Kinkar, Amit Toshniwal, Anshul Sood, Sunil Kumar, Sourya Acharya

“…This case report discusses an uncommon presentation of miliary tuberculosis as tubercular meningitis (TBM) and long-segment cervical tuberculous myelitis in a 32-year-old man from rural India. The patient presented with symptoms of fever, headache, neck stiffness, and gradual weakness in all four limbs. …”
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Stock status of kawakawa Euthynnus affinis (Cantor, 1849) fishery using surplus production model: An assessment from coastal waters of Tamil Nadu, Bay of Bengal, Southeast coast of India by Rajendran Abinaya, Moosambikandy K. Sajeevan

“…Kawakawa Euthynnus affinis (Cantor, 1849) is one of the commercially exploited tuna fishery resource of India. Except landing data, no other information was available on its stock status. …”
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Detection of t(14;16)(q32;q22) and Monosomy 13 by FISH Analysis in a Patient with Multiple Myeloma Associated with Sjögren’s Syndrome: The First Case Report from India by Rupesh R. Sanap, Arundhati S. Athalye, Prochi F. Madon, Boman N. Dhabhar, Mahendra B. Sute, Amit A. Mahabale, Dhanashree J. Warang, Firuza R. Parikh

“…We report the first case from India, having an association of Sjögren’s syndrome with multiple myeloma, which showed t(14;16) and monosomy 13 by FISH analysis.…”
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Socioeconomic and Geographical Inequities in Burden and Treatment seeking Behavior for Hypertension among Women in the Reproductive Age (15–45 years) Group in India: Findings from a Nationally Representative Survey by Karthiga Vijayakumar, Sivaranjini Kannusamy, Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy, Kavita Vasudevan, Pruthu Thekkur, Sonu Goel, Soumya Swaroop Meshram

“…Results: The prevalence of hypertension in India was 15% (95% confidence interval: 14.9%–15.4%). …”
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’[We] learned how to speak with love’: a qualitative exploration of accredited social health activist (ASHA) community health worker experiences of the Mobile Academy refresher training in Rajasthan, India by Amnesty Elizabeth LeFevre, Kerry Scott, Sara Chamberlain, Osama Ummer, Manjula Sharma, Dipanwita Gharai, Bibha Mishra, Namrata Choudhury

“…Introduction Mobile Academy is a mobile-based training course for India’s accredited social health activist (ASHA) community health workers (CHW). …”
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Assessing the Applicability of Photocatalytic-Concrete Blocks in Reducing the Concentration of Ambient NO2 of Chandigarh, India, Using Box–Behnken Response Surface Design Technique: A Holistic Sustainable Development Approach by Neeru Singla, Sandeep Singla, Parteek Singh Thind, Sandeep Singh, Jasgurpreet Singh Chohan, Raman Kumar, Shubham Sharma, Somnath Chattopadhyaya, Shashi Prakash Dwivedi, Ambuj Saxena, Alibek Issakhov, Nima Khalilpoor

“…Anthropogenic emissions, such as industrial, vehicular, biomass burning, and coal combustion, play a significant role in degrading the atmospheric conditions of India. Therefore, in the present study, applicability of the photocatalytic-concrete blocks was estimated in improving the ambient environment of Chandigarh, India. …”
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Integrating Apparent Conductance in Resistivity Sounding to Constrain 2D Gravity Modeling for Subsurface Structure Associated with Uranium Mineralization across South Purulia Shear Zone, West Bengal, India by Arkoprovo Biswas, Animesh Mandal, Shashi Prakash Sharma, William Kumar Mohanty

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Rare e14a3 (b3a3) BCR-ABL Fusion in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in India: The Threats and Challenges in Monitoring Minimal Residual Disease (MRD) by Salil Vaniawala, Arpan Acharya, Harsh Parekh, Pratap N. Mukhopadhyaya

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Natural History and Factors Associated with Early and Delayed Mortality in HIV-Infected Patients Treated of Tuberculosis under Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course Strategy: A Prospective Cohort Study in India by Gerardo Alvarez-Uria, Praveen Kumar Naik, Raghavakalyan Pakam, Lakshminaryana Bachu, Manoranjan Midde

“…Despite the impressive global results of DOTS in India, the effectiveness of DOTS for the treatment of tuberculosis in HIV-infected patients is not well known. …”
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Development and validation of an interprofessional collaborative educational module on the self-management of foot for individuals with type II diabetes mellitus in India [version 4; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] by Gagana Karkada, Sushma Prabhath, Ciraj Ali Mohammed, Arun G. Maiya, Harihara Prakash Ramanathan, M Ganesh Kamath, Ganesh Handady

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Association of frailty with non-laboratory based cardiovascular disease risk score among older adults and elderly population: insights from longitudinal aging study in India (LASI-1st wave) by Pritam Halder, Semanti Das, Anshul Mamgai, Divya Sharma, Ashish Behera, Pulak Syal, Vineeth Rajagopal, Tanvi Kiran

“…Methods The association between frailty and CVD risk scores of 56,450 older adults was estimated using nationally representative survey (Longitudinal Aging Study in India -LASI-1st Wave). Separate multivariable logistic regression was performed after adjusting for socio-economic, demographic and health related variables. …”
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Donde quedó el sujeto popular y quién es el ciudadano sujeto de derechos y deberes. Imaginarios sociales en barrios populares de Cartagena de Indias by Liliana Pérez Mendoza, Yudis Díaz Flórez

“…e ste artículo presenta los avances referidos a los principales hallazgos de la investigación « d el sujeto popular al ciudadano sujeto de derechos y deberes: imaginarios y prácticas sociales en los barrios populares de Cartagena de indias», en lo que hace referencia a los imaginarios sociales acerca del sujeto popular y el ciudadano sujeto de derechos y deberes construidos por los primeros pobladores y líderes comunitarios de seis (6) barrios populares de la ciudad de Cartagena (Colombia), marcados por historias, luchas, mecanismos de sobrevivencia, procesos sociales, culturales, políticos y económicos, a fin de establecer los elementos que permanecen, se transforman, desaparecen y los que aparecen en estas categorizaciones o «etiquetas» sociales, suscitadas desde estos mismos sectores populares y las políticas sociales, para lo cual se utilizó tanto el enfoque de investigación cualitativo como cuantitativo, mediante el análisis del discurso y las técnicas de entrevistas a profundidad, observación y encuesta.…”
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Sociodemographic Factors and Antenatal Service Utilization among Severe Acute Malnutrition Children under 2 Years of Age, Western India (Rajkot, Gujarat) – A Hospital-based Case-Control Study by Rujal D. Bhitora, Vibha V. Gosalia, Harsha M. Solanki

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Clinical outcomes among HIV positive babies below 18 months of age, diagnosed under the Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) programme, India: a mixed-methods studyResearch in context by Suchit Kamble, Nilesh Gawde, Shilpa Bembalkar, Noopur Goel, Mohan Thorwat, Kalyani Nikhare, Sushmita Kamble, Radhika Brahme, Swapna Pawar, Harsh Kubavat, Bhawanisingh Kushwaha, Vinita Verma, Chinmoyee Das, Raman Gangakhedkar

“…Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) was initiated in programme settings in India in 2010. Its impact on the clinical outcomes of infants covered under the programme and associated determinants have not been reported. …”
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Prediction of mortality and prioritisation to tertiary care using the 'OUR-ARCad' risk score gleaned from the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic-A retrospective cohort study from South India. by Narendran Gopalan, Vinod Kumar Viswanathan, Vignes Anand Srinivasalu, Saranya Arumugam, Adhin Bhaskar, Tamizhselvan Manoharan, Santosh Kishor Chandrasekar, Divya Bujagaruban, Ramya Arumugham, Gopi Jagadeeswaran, Saravanan Madurai Pandian, Arunalatha Ponniah, Thirumaran Senguttuvan, Ponnuraja Chinnaiyan, Baskaran Dhanraj, Vineet Kumar Chadha, Balaji Purushotham, Manoj Vasanth Murhekar

“…<h4>Background</h4>Judicious utilisation of tertiary care facilities through appropriate risk stratification assumes priority, in a raging pandemic, of the nature of delta variant-predominated second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India. Prioritisation of tertiary care, through a scientifically validated risk score, would maximise recovery without compromising individual safety, but importantly without straining the health system.…”
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Williams, Paul, Tribe, Anthony y Wynne, Alexander. Pensamiento budista: Una introducción completa a la tradición india. Trad. Agustina Luengo. Barcelona: Herder, 2013. 440 pp. by CARLOS BARBOSA CEPEDA

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Appearance of L90I and N205S Mutations in Effector Domain of NS1 Gene of pdm (09) H1N1 Virus from India during 2009–2013 by Sachin Kumar, Shashi Khare, Bano Saidullah, Inderjeet Gandhoke, Hanu Ram, Supriya Singh, L. S. Chauhan, Arvind Rai

“…Phylogenetic analysis of available NS1 sequences from India has grouped all the sequences into four clusters with mean genetic distance ranging from 12% to 24% between the clusters. …”
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Real life experience of a screening strategy for latent tuberculosis before treatment with biologicals in indian patients with rheumatic diseases by Anand N Malaviya, Ravita Thakaran, Roopa Rawat, Sanjiv Kapoor, Shriram Garg, Sadhana S Baghel, Christy Messi, Vivekanand, Qamar Zaheer

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Indian consensus statements on the management of small renal masses, non‐muscle invasive bladder cancer and high‐risk/locally advanced prostate cancer by Simon Hughes, Rajesh Nair, Bhav Radia, Ravimohan S. mavuduru, Prokar Dasgupta, Amit Ghose

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