This Indian study demonstrated telmisartan to be efficacious and tolerable for BP control in Indian hypertension patients when used as monotherapy or in combination therapy. The benefits of telmisartan were independent of age, duration, and stages of hypertension.

A study in India compared conventional PCR, real-time PCR, & loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for detecting N. gonorrhoeae. Results revealed high sensitivity for conventional & real-time PCR (94.1%), & slightly lower for LAMP assay (88.2%), all with 100% specificity. LAMP assay, with comparable diagnostic accuracy to other methods, could serve as a point-of-care test in resource-limited settings.

In patients undergoing primary total joint arthroplasty, researchers found that low preoperative vitamin D levels (<30 ng/dl) significantly correlated with increased postoperative complications, notably superficial wound infection and postoperative cellulitis (both P <0.001). However, administering a single oral dose of 300,000 IU vitamin D3 two weeks pre-surgery markedly reduced these risks.