The Hyde Amendment: Its Impact on Low Income Women with Unwanted Pregnancies

The Hyde amendment, which has been in effect since 1977, restricts federal funding of abortions for Medicaid-eligible women except where the life of the mother would be endangered if a fetus were carried to term. It has virtually eliminated federally financed abortions and the undue hardships it places on poor women foreshadow contemporary developments in abortion politics today for all women

Detecting and Preventing SQL Injection and XSS Attack using Web Security Mechanisms

In this paper we proposed a system prototype tool to evaluate web application security mechanisms. The methodology is based on the idea that injecting realistic vulnerabilities in a web application and attacking them automatically can be used to support the assessment of existing security mechanisms and tools in custom setup scenarios. To provide true to life results, the proposed vulnerability and attack injection methodology relies on the study of a large number of vulnerabilities in real web applications. To remove the vulnerabilities by implementing a concrete Vulnerability & Attack Injector Tool (VAIT) for securing web applications. To prevent various attacks like follows: 1. SQL Injection (SQLi) 2. Cross Site Scripting (XSS) 3. Brute Force Attack 4. Shoulder surfing Attack 5. Social Attack. 6. Dictionary Attac

Metal oxides and its blended derivative’s coating for anti-corrosion application

9-17Thin film deposition by using different nanomaterials has been an efficient and reliable way for enhancing the anti-corrosive property of the materials as well as strength improvement such as hardness, conductivity and wear resistance. Various materials have been taken as substrates like mild steel, magnesium, Aluminum, Copper, Tin, Carbon steel with thin film coatings of Zn–TiO2, Ce/Co, Zn-HA/TiO2, CrN/TiN, Ni- Co have been sampled. These specimens have been studied for numerous properties like surface roughness, wear resistance, adhesion strength, microhardness, hydrophobicity etc. It has been found that the components like muffler, differential, engine chassis, exhaust system, gears do undergo corrosion due to several factors like climate change, oxidation, moisture content etc. The aim of the review has been to highlight the advances in the coatings providing anticorrosive properties to various metallic substrates used specially for mechanical and automobile industries

Dissolution Improvement of Poorly Water Soluble Drug Valsartan and Improving Flow Properties of Solid Dispersion

The aim of the present investigation is to improve the dissolution of poorly water soluble drug valsartan by preparing solid dispersions and also to evaluate the effect of different inert carriers on flow properties of solid dispersion. Valsartan is a poorly soluble drug useful in the treatment of hypertension. Absorption window of valsartan is stomach and upper part of small intestine. One possible way to improve dissolution rate is solid dispersions of the drug. The solid dispersions were prepared by solvent evaporation method using HPMC E5 LV as water soluble carrier, as use of HPMC low viscosity polymers for solid dispersion preparations were reported in literature. But film formation took place during solid dispersion formulation and was creating difficulty in releasing the drug from formulation; and those solid dispersions, were not free flowing. Thus such preparations are not useful from the formulation development point of view. So to improve the flow properties some inert material were tried like microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) and lactose. The solid dispersions were evaluated for drug content, solubility and dissolution studies. In vitro drug release of solid dispersions was studied by USP type II paddle dissolution apparatus. For the solid dispersion the solubility and dissolution of the drug increased with the increase in the carrier concentration. Probable mechanisms of improved solubility and dissolution were characterized by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Powder X-ray Diffractometry (Powder XRD) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) of drug, physical mixture and solid dispersions. This study revealed that solid dispersions technique is promising and useful for valsartan to improve its solubility and dissolution and incorporation of inert carriers improved the flow property of solid dispersion.Colegio de Farmacéuticos de la Provincia de Buenos Aire

Formulation and evaluation of a face serum containing fenugreek extract

Background: Wrinkles on the face and aging of the skin are an undesirable effect of photodamage and ultraviolet radiation. Serum has a quick absorption and ability to penetrate deep layers of the skin, as well as a non-oily finish and a deep formula with a very high amount of active ingredients. Methods: In this study, we have formulated and evaluated a face serum containing combination of aqueous extract of fenugreek seed and lemon oil. Results: Facial serum was tested for its pH, physical appearance, viscosity, microbial testing, cyclic temperature test, etc. The results of the stability study show that there was no change in visual acuity, homogeneity. Conclusions: Serum containing Fenugreek extract have been able to cure bacterial infections and inflammations of facial skin, and other signs also moistens the skin without any side effects making skin soft, smooth and supple

Using phage Lytic Enzymes to Control Pathogenic Bacteria

Our laboratory has developed phage lytic enzymes to prevent infection by specifically destroying disease bacteria on mucous membranes and in blood. Enzymes specific for S. pneumoniae and S. pyogenes have been developed to be used nasally and orally to control these organisms in environments such as hospitals and nursing homes to prevent or markedly reduce serious infections by these pathogens. In addition, a B. anthracis-specific enzyme was developed to kill the vegetative forms of these bacteria in the blood of infected individuals. In animal studies, >80% of mice colonized mucosally or infected intravenously with pathogenic bacteria were decolonized or survived after a single enzyme treatment delivered to the same site of colonization or infection