Multiple field visits were performed to investigate weed flora of wheat fields in Rohtak district of Haryana, conducted during 2018 which revealed infestation of 28 weed species comprising 15 families of grasses and broadleaf weeds.The weeds were identified with the help of available literature and through comparison with the already identified weed species. Poa annua, Polypogon monspeliensis and broadleaf weeds Chenopodium album, Rumex retroflex, Coronopus didymus were the pre-dominant weeds in moist region, whereas Cynodon dactylon, Fumaria parviflora, Chenopodium album,Polypogon monspeliensis in light soil with low salinity.There was a greater variety of weeds in Bohar and Kharawar villages and the least was found in village Sheria and Garnavati from vegetative to fully grown stage.Maximum number of species were of family Poaceae and Asteraceae. This study will be helpful as an additional tool in maintaining the floristic composition of District Rohtak as well as in controlling the weed problem.

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Introduction: Infertility is not only a gynecological illness but also a bio-psycho-social health problem including a lower Quality of Life (QOL), psychiatric problems, marital conflicts and sexual dissatisfaction. Women in India are facing the burden of infertility treatment because of cultural and social stress, lack of knowledge and which can lead to other mental health problems. Objectives: The study aimed to assess the psychological status including the anxiety and depression, level of social support by family spouse and peer, and to assess the level of health system support by doctors, nurses and any health care provider to the women who are diagnosed with primary infertility. Methodology: Quantitative (non-experimental) approach was used. The data was collected from select 80 women who were undergoing infertility treatment at National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi. A standardized scale (BAI and BDI) was used to assess the psychological status and structured questionnaire to assess the social support and health system support among the women in view of getting infertility treatment support for data collection and later data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Result: The findings revealed that 28.75% were normal and 28.75% had moderate level and10% had severe level of depression, 93.75% had low level of anxiety, 5% had moderate level of anxiety and 1.25% had extreme level of anxiety, the 80% were getting average, 11.25% getting poor and 8.75% were getting good social support. 96.25% women were getting good support, 1.25% were getting average support and 2.5% were getting poor support from the health system. Conclusion: The study concluded that women who are undergoing infertility treatment had faced moderate mood disturbances as well less support from the family and spouse in their life. Further research must be undertaken to investigate better management for psychological and emotional support techniques to surpass their problem and you are valuable with or without a baby.

Background: In several studies, Vitamin D supplementation was found useful against the highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 to reduce the mortality rate and severity of its infection. Viral replication was also found to be affected negatively with vitamin D administration. Objective: The study was performed with an aim to study the efficacy of therapeutic approach of nutrition by intervention of Vitamin D towards decreasing the severity of prevailing pandemic of SARS-CoV-2. Methods: A background research of literature was performed using the key words “SARS-CoV-2”, “Covid-19”, “nutritional therapy”, “Vitamin D”, “immunity”, “AEC2 receptors” and “RAS system” in pubmed and google scholar. Results: If combined with medical sciences this nutritional therapy approach can end up as an influential solution to reduce the severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection which is a prevailing pandemic to human kind. A combination of assessment, supplementation of this required micro-nutrient (Vitamin D) and monitoring can be used to aid the immune system of Covid-19 patients. Conclusion: Nutritional therapy with Vitamin D as a major factor can be used to increase the immunity of an individual to fight against the highly infectious SARS-CoV-2. However the actual mechanism about how Vitamin D supplementation functions to improve health of an individual is yet unclear.