Urinary Markers of Tubular Injury in HIV-Infected Patients by Temesgen Fiseha, Angesom Gebreweld

“…Renal disease is a common complication of HIV-infected patients, associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events, progression to AIDS, AIDS-defining illness, and mortality. Early and accurate identification of renal disease is therefore crucial to improve patient outcomes. …”
Get full text

Assembling Reading and Writing in the Face of Loss: Christa Couture’s How to Lose Everything and Dakshana Bascaramurty’s This Is Not the End of Me by Lola Artacho-Martín

“…Sympathy and mutual identification arise and bring readers’ and writers’ identities closer, creating an intersubjective space where health and illness assemble their relations. This analysis of Christa Couture’s How to Lose Everything and Dakshana Bascaramurty’s This is Not the End of Me: Lessons on Living from a Dying Man will attempt to show that there is a tight link between reader and writer through nonfiction which transcends the literary text. …”
Get full text

Time and replacement among the Q’eqchi’ Maya by Paul Kockelman

“…Among speakers of Q’eqchi’ Maya, replacement (–eeqaj) refers to activities as disparate as house-building, civil-religious elections, vengeance, loans, illness cures, adultery, and namesakes. Such practices involve the substitution of one entity for another entity, insofar as these entities have shared properties, and insofar as they hold a role in an obligatory position. …”
Get full text

Autoamputation of Genitalia in Bipolar Patient by Vinod Sharma, Aditi Sharma

“…We describe herein a case of a Caucasian, employed, and married male suffering from bipolar disorder type II with history of self-mutilating behavior, who amputated his penis during symptom-free phase of his illness. Several features are reflected as risky elements for genital self-mutilation, for example, homosexual and transsexual tendencies, abandonment of the male genitals, lack of competent male for identification during childhood, feeling of guilt for sexual offences, and self-injuries in anamnesis. …”
Get full text

La construction des catégories diagnostiques de maladie mentale by Cédric Brun, Steeves Demazeux, Pierangelo Di Vittorio, François Gonon, Philippe Gorry, Jan Peter Konsman, Fanny Lung, Yannick Lung, Michel Minard, Matthieu Montalban, Nicole Rumeau, Andy Smith

“…Within the framework of a political economy approach, the paper analyses the social construction of both markets and illnesses in the field of mental health, linked with the recent debates associated to the publication of the latter classification of mental disorders (DSM-5). …”
Get full text

Thyroid function during COVID-19 and post-COVID complications in adults: a systematic review by Anisha Panesar, Palma Gharanei, Natasha Khovanova, Lawrence Young, Dimitris Grammatopoulos, Dimitris Grammatopoulos

“…This is associated with elevated levels of cytokines, such as IL-6, that disrupt thyroid function and lead to nonthyroidal illness syndrome (NTIS). Medications administered during the acute illness phase, such as corticosteroids and antiviral drugs, can also impact thyroid hormone actions. …”
Get full text

Role of IPF genetic risk loci in post-COVID-19 lung abnormalities: a cohort study by James Johnston, Christopher Carlsten, Christopher J Ryerson, Alyson W Wong, Cameron J Hague, Julia Yang, Janice Leung, Daniel-Costin Marinescu, Aditi Shah, Darra Murphy

“…Linear regression was used to evaluate the association between risk alleles at each of the three SNPs and (a) lung parenchymal abnormalities as well as (b) pulmonary function, adjusted for age, sex, smoking history and days spent on supplemental oxygen during acute illness.Results 71 patients were included. Mean age was 63±16 years, 62% were male, 31% were ever-smokers and median hospital length of stay was 9±11 days, with 23% requiring mechanical ventilation. …”
Get full text

Obsessive–Compulsive Symptoms in Neurologic Disease: A Review by M. S. George, J. A. Melvin, C. H. Kellner

“…Finally, we synthesize these findings into a proposed theory of the pathophysiology of OCD, in both its pure form and when it accompanies other neurological illness.…”
Get full text

Functional Abdominal Pain in Childhood: Background Studies and Recent Research Trends by Rona L Levy, Miranda AL van Tilburg

“…Specific areas discussed based on work within the authors’ group include familial illness patterns, genetics, traits, and mechanisms or processes related to abdominal pain. …”
Get full text

Facts about Wildlife Diseases: Hemorrhagic Fever in White-Tailed Deer by Katherine A. Sayler, Charlotte Dow, Samantha M. Wisely

“… The viruses that cause hemorrhagic disease (HD) in deer do not cause illness in people, but they are a growing problem. …”
Get full text

La defensa de la especificidad española frente al advenimiento de la cultura liberal (1833-1839) by Laetitia Blanchard Rubio

“…The Carlists condemn the devastating effects of a new universalist culture and present Spain as a country protected from this new « illness » affecting other European countries. The changes required by the Spanish liberals involve the Carlists' praise of a Basque culture built up in contradiction with the concept of a cosmopolitan culture presented by Madrid. …”
Get full text

Seizure and Hepatosplenomegaly—Rare Manifestation of Parvovirus B-19: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Yadav Kamlesh, Gupta Pallav, Murari Manjula, Malik Rohan

“…Parvovirus B19 is the etiologic agent of erythema infectiosum (fifth disease), a fever-rash illness occurring in childhood. We present a 10 month old child with high grade fever for 10 days, generalized tonic-clonic seizure, bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy, generalized maculopapular rash, hematemesis and malena. …”
Get full text

DOENÇAS SEM DOENTES: OCORRÊNCIA DE DISTÚRBIOS OSTEOMUSCULARES RELACIONADOS AO TRABALHO – DORT NOS OPERADORES DE CAIXA DE UM BANCO by Moizés Martins Junior, Maria Christine Werba Saldanha

“…They have also noted cases of illness for DORT workers without fulfilling the legal requirement of the issuance of the communication of labour accident and without the removal of the employee of the workplace. …”
Get full text

La narration dans la formation des professionnels de santé travaillant avec des personnes atteintes de démence : quel(s) usage(s) ? by Silvia Rossi

“…Narrative medicine helps doctors to understand what they and their patients experience in the presence of illness (Charon, 2006/2015). On the basis of the work of Rita Charon, I assume that narrative medicine tools – attention, representation and affiliation – can be effectively employed in the training of medical staff working with people with dementia. …”
Get full text

Surgical Management of Multijoint Septic Arthritis due to Rat-Bite Fever in a Pediatric Patient: A Case Study by Adam M. Wegner, Nicole Look, Brian M. Haus

“…In the United States, rat-bite fever is a rare systemic illness principally caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis, an organism found in the nasopharyngeal flora of rodents. …”
Get full text

Symptoms of depression and anxiety and stress among postgraduate trainees in Sri Lanka: Risk factors and implications for practice by Prasangika S. Alles, Luckshika Amarakoon, Yasodha M. Rohanachandra

“…Being female, having a past or current mental illness, not being supported by the trainers, being unfairly treated by trainers, dissatisfaction with the work environment, difficulty in coping with long working hours, and poor peer support were significantly associated with symptoms of depression and anxiety, and stress (P < 0.01). …”
Get full text

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among ICU Survivors by Roshna Vadakkedath, Sherin Susan Thomas

“…The article concluded that PTSD among ICU survivors vary significantly and this condition is common with symptoms of post-traumatic stress potentially lasting for several months following recovery from critical illness.…”
Get full text

The theoretical and methodological conception for the structuring of the ability to comprehensively treat pain in the General Physician training by José Julio Ojeda González, Miriam Iglesias León

“…Professional skills constitute a content dimension in the doctor's training model; They express the practical actions that must be acquired in the training model and, through them, it is possible to learn the demands that come with carrying out an adequate interrogation, a correct comprehensive physical examination and the application of the scientific method in the study of the health illness process in the individual, family and community. …”
Get full text

Role of the Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine (IAPSM) in Combating Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) by Purushottam Giri, Venkatesh Karthikeyan

“…This makes infections increasingly difficult, or even impossible, to treat, thereby raising the risk of disease spread, severe illness, disability, and death. Although AMR is a natural process driven by genetic changes in pathogens, its acceleration is largely fueled by human activity, particularly the misuse and overuse of antimicrobials across various sectors. …”
Get full text

Bupropion Induced Hyponatremia in an Elderly Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Sahil Munjal, Yvette Smolin

“…The clinical symptoms of hyponatremia can be misinterpreted as a worsening of the primary psychiatric illness and can lead to potentially serious consequences if not fully evaluated. …”
Get full text