PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Care

Background: Acute appendicitis (AA) is the most common abdominal surgical emergency in children and adolescents. In the year immediately following the declaration of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic by the World Health Organization

CONCLUSION: In patients with SP, radical RT with a modest dose (45-50 Gy) leads to satisfactory symptom relief, response and local control. Close to 40% patients eventually progress to multiple myeloma, out of which 50% can be successfully salvaged

Sensitive, rapid, and portable molecular diagnostics is the future of disease surveillance, containment, and therapy. The recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has reminded us of the vulnerability of lives from ever-evolving pathogens. At the same time, it has

This article examines the experience of healthcare professionals working in primary healthcare provision during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in North Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in Kambia District, Sierra Leone. Drawing

Ongoing assessments by climate scientists, including a recent report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, punctuate the pronounced effect that climate change is poised to have in the near future on the health and well

CONCLUSION: Combined analysis of a phase II/III randomized trial suggests that LD-RT prevents ventilation, reduces supplemental oxygen need, improves clinical course, and enhances immune response. LD-RT may have both immediate direct effects and

The COVID-19 pandemic has been reported to disrupt the access to care of people who live with HIV (PWH). The impact of the pandemic on the longitudinal HIV care continuum, however, has not been properly evaluated. We performed a mixed-methods study

Introduction: Hospitalizations during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic peaked in New York in March-April 2020. In the months following, emergency department (ED) volumes declined. Our objective in this study was to examine the effect of this

Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) is a significant public health concern and people with AUD are more likely to develop severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in response to respiratory infections. To examine whether AUD was a risk factor for

CONCLUSIONS: CBO participants in our study had broadly positive experiences in the pilot program and almost all would participate in a similar program in the future. Participants provided perspectives that can inform health and social care