Unlike humans, many fish grab their food by sucking up the water that surrounds it. Once sucked into fish's mouth, then gets swallowed up. What of carried it there? The simplest way for to exit is across gills, but if just followed suit, would be inhaling and spewing out through gill slits. Pauline Provini, from Département Adaptations du Vivant, Paris, France, wasn't convinced this most elegan...

Airway management in patients with tumours involving airway is a daunting task for anaesthesiologist. In case of children, psychological and physiological issues further complicate the management. Emergency surgery at a setup ill‐equipped for children makes the situation even more challenging. A 6‐year‐old 18 kg child who had been undergoing chemotherapy (cisplatin and paclitaxel) at our hospit...

Background: postoperative sore throat is the commonest complication after endotracheal intubation. The efficacy of intravenous non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in alleviating postoperative sore throat has not been investigated. Objective: To evaluate the effect of intravenous diclofenac sodium on the occurrence and severity of postoperative sore throat. Methods: 42 in-patients scheduled fo...

The general scheme of prophylaxis consisted in keeping in quarantine all fresh admissions to the jails until their post-nasal swabs had been examined and found negative for the meningococcus, isolation of the sick and of carriers, segregation of contacts, adoption of general measures for the avoidance of overcrowding and the use of 1 in 5,000 solution oi potassium permanganate in normal saline ...

Breathe – the air we wear proposes wearable and mobile technologies for reading and rendering in real time the air we breathe. The project proposes the ‘actioning’ for better air quality through individuals’ capacity to record air pollution. The project initiates a walk-able protest by taking air quality directly to the individual and through critical mass counter the massive problems facing ou...

We read with interest the recent review on co-infections in coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) patients1Lansbury L. Lim B. Baskaran V. W.S Co-infections people COVID-19: a systematic and meta-analysis.J Infect. 2020; 81: 266-275Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (814) Google Scholar believe that fungal as evaluated from selected studies are underestimated. Severe acute respiratory syndrome c...

In William Friedkin's iconic horror film The Exorcist (1973), an adolescent girl, Regan MacNeil, is possessed by evil demon that makes her act in increasingly erratic and immoral ways. She starts to swear urinates on the floor at a house party. Later, she violates herself with cross, violently attacks mother, goes murder two people: friend of Catholic priest come save soul. But it not just Rega...

Forty eight patients of either sex aged 18 – 60 years entered the study to test the efficacy and tolerability of a herbal preparation known as Koflet lozenges. Twenty three of them had catarrhal pharyngitis, sixteen had catarrhal tonsillitis and nine of them had both. The dosage was 3 lozenges every 8 hours for 3 days in patients with sore throat and related signs and symptoms. The patients wer...