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Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disorder affecting approximately 60 million people worldwide. The condition presents with rapid hyperproliferation and dysregulated differentiation of epidermal keratinocytes, manifesting clinically as salmon pink plaques with overlying silvery-white scale.

Sodium valproate, or valproic acid (VPA), is an antiepileptic drug used for the treatment of epilepsy, bipolar disorder, migraine headache, and diabetic-neuropathy related pain. Valproate-induced pancreatitis is an idiosyncratic reaction of the drug, commonly seen in paediatrics…

Drug resistance among patients with tuberculosis (TB) is an emergent topic that requires intervention. According to a survey of TB drug resistance in India, resistance to any fluoroquinolones (FQ) reported in cases of multidrug resistance (MDR) to TB was 21.82%.

Hannah Gower | Cardiology and Internal Medicine Speciality Registrar, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

Histotripsy is a non-invasive, non-thermal, and non-ionising focused ultrasound (US) treatment method that destroys tissue through mechanical disruption caused by cavitation. Short-duration (<20 μs) high-pressure US pulses cause the rapid expansion and collapse of endogenous gas bubbles in targeted tissue.

Juan Gómez Rivas | Urology Consultant, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain; Assistant Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Andrew R.J. Mitchell | Consultant Cardiologist at Jersey General Hospital, Saint Helier, Jersey; Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Timothy Clinton – Urologic Oncologist and Associate Surgeon, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Faculty Member, Harvard University, Boston, USA.