This review article also discusses the safety measures to be followed for the suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patient and the guidelines and recommendations for healthcare teams while treating these patients. Although there is little evidence of viral transmission through laparoscopic or open approaches, modifications to surgical practice such as…[Read more]

The global COVID-19 pandemic has brought numerous challenges for conducting the human subjects research needed to advance science and improve health.

The purpose of this article is to discuss how a college of nursing at a large public university in the southeast United States has responded to the challenges of conducting research during…[Read more]

In-hospital mortality rate was 57% in patients with drug-resistant pathogens. Conclusions Reconstruction with bilateral AFB and stent graft removal in patients with AAGI is a feasible treatment modality and provided an acceptable patency rate and low amputation rate. Additional studies investigating long-term results and the optimal treatment of…[Read more]

Environmental health effects during urbanization have attracted much attention. However, knowledge is lacking on the relationship between long-term cumulative residential environment and health effects on individuals during rapid transformations in urban physical and social space. Taking Guangzhou, China, as a case example, this study analyzed the…[Read more]

Previous studies have reported abnormal amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation and regional homogeneity in patients with migraine without aura using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. However, how whole brain functional connectivity pattern homogeneity and its corresponding functional connectivity changes in patients with…[Read more]

Both risk stratification based on NCCN 2017 and sCONUT score predict prognosis in the elderly patients with newly diagnosed AML.An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.Pearl millet hybrids biofortified with iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) promise to be part of a long-term strategy to combat…[Read more]

4% in the presence of GGT compared to AAP only. In conclusion, the PKs of AAP were affected by co-administration of GGT. Therefore, when AAP is combined with GGT, adverse effects related to overdose of AAP could be induced possibly.One of the key smart city visions is to bring smarter transport networks, specifically intelligent/smart…[Read more]

Downregulation of circ-CCS inhibited lung cancer cell growth and metastasis while promoted apoptosis in vitro, and suppressed tumorigenesis of lung cancer in vivo. Circ-CCS had sponge effect on miR-383 and the function of si-circ-CCS was achieved by upregulating miR-383. E2F7 was a target gene of miR-383 and its downregulation was responsible for…[Read more]