Volume 3, Issue 1

Mueen Ahmed K.

pp. 75–76 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.92502 · 2012

Google Scholar is a well-known search engine, and allowed users to freely access scholarly articles. It indexes the full text of scholarly papers available in suitable publishing formats and disciplines.[1] Using Google …

Ashok K. Dubey

pp. 79–80 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.92505 · 2012

The study groups under comparison seem to be similar at the start of the study and there is no apparent selection bias or probability of confounding, but randomization and blinding could have made the interpretation of r…

Somsri Wiwanitkit, Viroj Wiwanitkit

pp. 81–81 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.92507 · 2012

I read the recent publication on the adverse drug reaction of oseltamivir in pediatric patients with a great interest.[1] Dalvi et al. concluded that “oseltamivir is well tolerated in Indian children with suspected or co…

Sreejith Parameswaran, R. P. Swaminathan

pp. 82–83 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.92510 · 2012

Belatacept has brought about a ‘paradigm shift’ in the maintenance immunosuppression after solid organ transplantation, in that it is the first biologic agent approved for use for long-term maintenance immunosuppression …

G. Sivagnanam

pp. 85–6 · 2012

An alarming new stimulant, legal in many states...reports are emerging from hospitals around the country, as doctors scramble to figure out the best treatment for people high on bath salts. The drugs … have unusually dan…

G. Sivagnanam

pp. 85–6 · 2012

“Successful aging”, is defined as survival to age 70 years, not having a major chronic disease (such as coronary disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes), and having no major cognitive impairment, physical impairment, or m…

Jatinder Singh

pp. 87–9 · 2012

The widespread use of animals has brought to the fore the issue of possible suffering endured by animals during experiments and how this outweighs the potential benefits of animal research.In most countries, strict regul…

George Melvin, Selvarajan Sandhiya, Kumaresan Subraja

pp. 90–92 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.92499 · 2012

Renal transplant is the definitive therapy in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and offers the only solace for such patients who have no alternative other than frequent hemodialysis, a process which contribute…