Effect of a Yogic Breathing Technique on Immune Parameters among Healthcare Workers: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study by Archana Balasubramanian, Priyathersini Nagarajan, Mathangi Damal Chandrasekar, Kaviraja Udupa, Emmanuel Bhaskar, Divya Kanchibotla, Saumya Subramanian

“…This pilot randomized controlled trial includes recruiting HCWs from a single centre in South India in 2022. We excluded any form of medical illness and recruited regular volunteers. …”
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Knowledge and perceptions about clinical research and its ethical conduct among college students from non-science background: a representative nation-wide survey from India by Jeffrey Pradeep Raj, Suraj Kallarakal Tomy, Amrutha Jose, Aadrika Kashyap, Joseph Varghese Kureethara, Tomy K Kallarakal

“…Thus, we aim to investigate if the pandemic has influenced awareness and attitudes towards CR given the wide mass and social media coverage on drug/vaccine development process.Methods This was an online survey conducted among young adults enrolled as students in a university in south India between 15 September 2022 and 31 October 2022. …”
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Effect of early establishment of full enteral feeding with exclusive mother’s own milk in preterm babies: a retrospective cohort study by Umamaheswari Balakrishnan, Prakash Amboiram, Urmila Umasekar, Nalini Sirala Jagadeesh

“…This study evaluated the effect of early establishment of full enteral feed (FEF) with exclusive MOM on feeding rate and neonatal nutritional outcomes at discharge among preterm babies.Methods A retrospective cohort study was conducted using medical records of single preterm babies born between 27 and 33+6 weeks of gestational age and admitted to a single tertiary care hospital in South India between June 2019 and May 2022. The primary exposure was the establishment of FEF with exclusive MOM. …”
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Epidemiology of Lumbar Puncture and the Validity of Meningeal Signs in Predicting Meningitis in Children: A Cross-sectional Study by Mehjabin, Shiji Joseph, Arun Ravi, Kalyani Pillai

“…Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in the Department of Paediatrics at Amala Institute of Medical Sciences, Thrissur, Kerala, South India, from August 2018 to July 2019. The records of paediatric patients (aged 1 month to 12 years) who underwent LP during the one year from August 2018 to July 2019 at the centre were collected. …”
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Clinical Profile and Prescription Patterns in Culture-proven Enteric Fever in Children by Divya Priyadharshini, Mobill Clinton, Nandini Sethuraman, Mathrubootham Sridhar, Vidya Krishna

“…Aim: We aimed to study the clinical profile of enteric fever in children at an urban tertiary care children's hospital in South India. Materials and methods: We carried out a retrospective study of culture-proven enteric fever in children aged 0–18 years between January 2018 and March 2023. …”
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Phytolith assemblages from palm leaves and palm-leaf manuscripts: what is the difference and what it could mean? by Anastasia Poliakova, Anastasia Poliakova, Anastasia Poliakova, Giovanni Ciotti, Giovanni Ciotti, Giovanni Ciotti, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, Jörg Fromm, Jörg Fromm

“…Herbarium samples were obtained from two independent herbaria, specimen origin comprises S and SE Asia with the main focus on South India and Sri Lanka. Additionally, 25 manuscripts made of Borassus flabellifer leaves and 25 manuscripts made of Corypha umbraculifera leaves were investigated for phytoliths. …”
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Multimodal Deep Learning for Differentiating Bacterial and Fungal Keratitis Using Prospective Representative Data by N.V. Prajna, MD, Jad Assaf, MD, Nisha R. Acharya, MD, MS, Jennifer Rose-Nussbaumer, MD, Thomas M. Lietman, MD, J. Peter Campbell, MD, MPH, Jeremy D. Keenan, MD, MPH, Xubo Song, PhD, Travis K. Redd, MD, MPH

“…Objective: This study develops and evaluates multimodal machine learning models for differentiating bacterial and fungal keratitis using a prospective representative dataset from South India. Design: Machine learning classifier training and validation study. …”
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Urban-rural disparities in cervical cancer screening among Indian women between 30–49 years: a geospatial and decomposition analysis using a nationally representative survey by Priyanka Garg, Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy, Pritam Halder, Sathish Rajaa, Madhur Verma, Ankita Kankaria, Anil Goel, Rakesh Kakkar

“…Higher odds of having screening were associated with older age (AOR 1.45, 95% CI: 1.03–1.28), higher education (1.32; 1.13–1.55), higher age of first intercourse (1.60; 1.43–1.79), married (1.25; 1.08–1.45) and diabetic (1.39; 1.17–1.65) women, and those from South India (6.76; 5.90–7.75). The odds were lower among Muslims, scheduled tribes and participants using hormonal contraceptives. …”
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