We provide an initial assessment of the Federal Reserve’s policy response to the COVID-19 contraction. We briefly review the historical episode and consider the standard textbook treatment of a pandemic on the macroeconomy. We summarize and then evaluate the Fed’s monetary and emergency lending policies through the end of 2020. We credit the Fed…[Read more]

careful selection of outcome measures for different disease aspects.Rare diseases bring on a heavy health, social and economic burden that impacts patients’ lives and puts pressure on the healthcare system. Furthermore, they are often associated with limited published studies to inform multidisciplinary clinical practice thus limiting…[Read more]

Living alone was found to be the strongest relative predictor of both loneliness and depressiveness in the studied sample of the older adults. Our current results suggest that there might be a need to improve social support in the late adulthood as an intervention to diminish the sense of loneliness and depressiveness.The COVID-19 pandemic…[Read more]

Furthermore, TL1A levels in the KD group were positively correlated with the duration of fever and the time point of IVIG and WBC levels, but negatively correlated with levels of RBC, Hb and albumin. TL1A might be involved in KD-associated vasculitis and in the development of CAAs.Tumors of the genital system are common and imaging is of crucial…[Read more]