Objective: Smartphones have evolved from luxury to essential need items in general population nowadays. iOS by Apple, Android by Google, Windows by Microsoft and Blackberry account for the majority of smartphone operating system which are currently in use today. Materials and Methods: The present study was done among 350 students of medical, dental, nursing and physiotherapy streams to know the prevalence of smartphone use and attitude towards its use. Of the 350 students enrolled in the study, 257 completed the questionnaire with a response rate of 73.4%. Results: Out of 222, 198 had android devices, 13 had iPhones, and 11 had other operating systems including Windows and Blackberry. 191 (74.3%) of the subjects had a working email account. Conclusion: First year students have positive perception towards smartphone use and medical schools should encourage the use of medical applications among them. However, students and medical professionals should be cautious of the negative issues with smartphone use.

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One hundred cadaveric human hearts were studied by dissection method for the correlation among various morphometric parameters of the heart and tricuspid valve. From the total hearts only 86 hearts were studied and 14 hearts have been excluded because of the one or the other anatomical variation in the structure of leaflets. The parameters studied were weight of heart (g), circumference of tricuspid valve (mm), attachment length of leaflets and commissures (mm), and height of the three leaflets (mm). A strong and direct correlation was observed between the circumference of tricuspid valve with the weight of heart, attachment length of leaflets and the three commissures and height of leaflets. Thus the present study tried to provide the normal data on morphometric parameters of heart and tricuspid valve which will help the cardiac surgeons and forensic experts. Possibly, it can also be used as an important tool in the anthropological studies, for better understanding of surgical anatomy of heart and designing of tissue-engineered cardiac valves.

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Background: Sexing of human skeleton is highly contested subject and is usually done by using morphological and metrical traits of big intact bones like skull, mandible, pelvis and long bones etc.1 The stapes remains well protected by being housed in the middle ear, even in the mutilated bodies.Methods: The morphometric study of the 120 human stapes bones from 60 unidentified cadavers was aimed to know the presence of sexual dimorphism.Results: The weight and measurements of footplate could be a good criterion for determining percentage accuracy as male and female respectively and could be used as a potential tool for determination of sex.Conclusions: The study of normal dimensions and indices of stapes will provide insight to the forensic experts for deciding the sex of an individual in the disputed cases. Our findings are the results for guidance and future manipulation in the forensic and legal medicine.