A child aged 4 months was brought to a health worker in the sub center with complaints of cough and fever. On examination, there was chest indrawing and respiratory rate was 45 per minute. Which of the following is best way to manage the child?
A. The child should be classified as a case of pneumonia
B. Give an antibiotic and advise mother to give home care
C. Reassess the child within 2 days or earlier if the condition worsens
D. Refer urgently to hospital after giving the first dose of an antibiotic
Correct answer …

DRACO is the acronym for Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) Activated Caspase Oligomerizer which selectively induces apoptosis in cells containing viral dsRNA, thereby rapidly eliminating infected cells without affecting uninfected cells. Todd H. Rider and associates [Rider TH, Zook CE, Boettcher TL, Wick ST, Pancoast JS, Zusman BD. Broad-spectrum antiviral therapeutics. PLoS One. 2011;6(7):e22572] from the Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America, could create DRACOs which were effective against fifteen different viruses like dengue flavivirus and H1N1 influenza. It was non toxic to eleven mammalian cell …

Histogram is used to describe:
a) Quantitative data of a group of patients
b) Qualitative data of a group of patients
c) Data collected on nominal scale
d) Data collcted on ordinal scale
Correct answer : a) Quantitative data of a group of patients (Factual question)

X-ray of a young man shows hetrotopic calcification around bilateral knee joints. Next investigation would be
a) Serum phosphate
b) Serum calcium
c) Serum PTH
d) Serum Alkaline phosphatase
Correct answer : a) Serum phosphate