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The Mothers Delivery Kit discusses an innovative healthcare package sold in the poor West African region to aid with the delivery of expectant mothers. The package combines various necessary items used for proper and hygienic delivery of the rural and remote mothers with the help of a local midwife or medical practitioner. Antenatal care in the region is poor due to lack of infrastructure and government funding in healthcare. The Mothers Delivery Kit addresses that issue by providing a cheap and hygienic alternative to conventional delivery methods. The kit has decreased newborn death in the region noticeably. The founders have worked closely with local midwives to train them and enable them to use the Mothers Delivery Kit properly to improve delivery conditions. Regardless of the setbacks caused by local traditional beliefs and culture, the kit has proven to be an active effort to improve delivery conditions.

PVC (polyvinyl chloride) is a thermoplastic polymer used extensively in industrial applications. The potentiality of PVC lies in various parameters, such as high tensile strength, biodegradability, large surface area, chemical stability, low weight, durability, cost-effectiveness, and availability. However, the low thermal stability and brittleness of pure PVC limit its acceptance in widespread applications. Therefore, modifying PVC with metal oxides and carbon nanofillers could substantially improve thermal stability, mechanical strength, biocompatibility, surface area, conductivity, etc. Enhanced properties in modified PVC result from the chemical and physical interaction between polymer and functionalized nanofillers and the good dispersion capability of nanofillers on polymer matrix, which is attributed to the excellent performances of nanocomposites in diverse fields. This paper aims to present an overview of the characterization, preparation, and applications of blend nanocomposites of PVC, which would benefit future developments in this field.

Nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. The technology can be used to treat cancer by the application of hyperthermia to magnetic nanoparticles and is found to be effective in cancer repression. Iron oxide nanoparticles were synthesized by co-precipitation method. Synthesized nanoparticles were ranging from 10 to 20nm size with Iron concentration of 6 μg. Cancer cell lines, A549 and HeLa, were subjected to hyperthermia treatment and the effect of iron oxide nanoparticles was analysed by Microscopic and Spectroscopic analysis, along with MTT assay in order to check the toxicity of the nanoparticles. Viability of the cells with respect to the concentration of the nanoparticles was determined. Under the influence of the electromagnetic field, iron oxide nanoparticles reduced the viability of the cancer cell lines ie., 44% after 5 minutes, 31% and 29% after 10 minutes of exposure.