Baby growth needs proper re-evaluation

Medicine Withdrawal and Recall: Needs Proper Evaluation

While comparing the drug withdrawal and availability pattern among different countries, we can see that some drugs withdrawn in one country continue to be used at other places. This may be due to valid reasons like difference in disease pattern, prescribing practice, genetics, diet; drug manufacturing process used which influence pharmaceutical quality and composition, dose and availability. Bu...

Current fluoroquinolone susceptibility criteria for Salmonella needs re-evaluation.

BACKGROUND Disc diffusion technique is the routine susceptibility testing procedure for isolates of enteric fever, the most common clinical diagnosis among febrile patients in Nepal. OBJECTIVE To evaluated the current fluoroquinolones (FQs) susceptibility criteria and nalidixic acid screening test in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi and Paratyphi A. METHODS S. Typhi and Paratyphi A strains...

Human milk oligosaccharides: every baby needs a sugar mama.

Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are a family of structurally diverse unconjugated glycans that are highly abundant in and unique to human milk. Originally, HMOs were discovered as a prebiotic "bifidus factor" that serves as a metabolic substrate for desired bacteria and shapes an intestinal microbiota composition with health benefits for the breast-fed neonate. Today, HMOs are known to be mo...

Plant growth rates and seed size: a re-evaluation.

Small-seeded plant species are often reported to have high relative growth rate or RGR. However, because RGR declines as plants grow larger, small-seeded species could achieve higher RGR simply by virtue of their small size. In contrast, size-standardized growth rate or SGR factors out these size effects. Differences in SGR can thus only be due to differences in morphology, allocation, or physi...

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