Anxiety, Beliefs and Covid-19 in Two Periods of the Pandemic in Brazil: A comparative study by Geovanna Santana de Souza Turri, Renata Elly Barbosa Fonte, Luiz Guilherme Lima-Silva, Andre Faro

“…This suggests the possibility of an increase of some conditions that result in adaptive impairment, exhaustion, and mental illness. Finally, it is important to understand people’s beliefs about the coronavirus at diff erent times of the pandemic because it is a favorable period for the emergence and/or intensification of mental disorders. …”
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Coronavirus disease 2019 in kidney transplant recipients: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Quan Yao Ho, Rehena Sultana, Tung Lin Lee, Sobhana Thangaraju, Terence Kee, Htay Htay

“…Pooled rates of mortality and critical illness were 21.1% (95% CI 15.3–28.4) and 27.7% (95% CI 21.5–34.8), respectively. …”
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Prolonged Exposure Therapy For Post Traumatic Stress Disorder by Levent SÜTÇİGİL, Selçuk ASLAN

“…Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric illness that usually develops after an event that threatens one’s life and body integrity and it affects quality of life and impairs social functioning significantly. …”
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Kidney Diseases Classification using Hybrid Transfer-Learning DenseNet201-Based and Random Forest Classifier by Abdalbasit Mohammed Qadir, Dana Faiq Abd

“…This study focuses on kidney stones, cysts, and tumors, the three most common types of renal illness, using a dataset of 12,446 CT urogram and whole abdomen images, aiming to move toward an AI-based kidney disease diagnosis system while contributing to the wider field of artificial intelligence research. …”
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A study of serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor level in individuals with obsessive compulsive disorder and their first-degree relatives as compared to the healthy population by Shaily Mina, Rupam Dhiman, Prakamya Singal, Sukanya Gangopadhyay, Pankaj Verma, Shivani Kathuria

“…Endophenotypes have been researched as heritable biological markers that can be quantified and defined to represent intermediate measures of a psychiatric illness. In obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), various putative biomarkers such as neuropsychological, neurophysiological, neuroradiological, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), etc., have been explored. …”
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A novel deep learning-based 1D-CNN-optimized GRU approach for heart disease prediction by Jini Mol G., Ajith Bosco Raj T.

“…The data processed were finally used by the hybrid 1D-CNN-Optimized GRU network to predict cardiovascular illness. The suggested method attained a training accuracy of over 97% and a test accuracy of over 96% on the dataset. …”
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Mortality, Work and Migration. A Consideration of Age-specific Mortality from Tuberculosis in Scotland, 1861-1901 by Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett

“…We show that the age and gender-specific pattern of mortality in the rural area is consistent with higher male than female out-migration together with return migration of those who had contracted the disease elsewhere and needed care during their lengthy illness. We argue that the observed patterns are difficult to reconcile with the ‘bargaining-nutrition’ account of gendered patterns in tuberculosis mortality, and that they provide little support for nutrition as a key influence on the disease. …”
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The Case for Improved Interprofessional Care: Fatal Analgesic Overdose Secondary to Acute Dental Pain during Pregnancy by Sarah K. Y. Lee, Rocio B. Quinonez, Alice Chuang, Stephanie M. Munz, Darya Dabiri

“…Through the course of her illness, the patient suffered adverse outcomes including fetal demise, acute kidney injury, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, and septic shock before eventual death from multiple organ failure. …”
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Pulmonary Toxoplasmosis Diagnosed on Transbronchial Lung Biopsy in a Mechanically Ventilated Patient by Delyse Garg, Nikhil Madan, Omar Qaqish, Sandhya Nagarakanti, Vipul Patel

“…In persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), toxoplasmosis occurs when CD4 counts are very low and is considered an acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) defining illness. Pulmonary toxoplasmosis is rarely seen in the highly active antiretroviral therapy era. …”
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Incorporating Internal and External Training Load Measurements in Clinical Decision Making After ACL Reconstruction: A Clinical Commentary by Jeffrey B Taylor, Kevin R Ford, Robin M Queen, Elizabeth C Owen, Angela Spontelli Gisselman

“… # Description of Topic with Related Evidence Quantifying and identifying the effects of training load variables, external (distance, impacts, decelerations) and internal (heart rate, heart rate variability) workload, during rehabilitation can indicate both positive (improved physical, physiological, or psychological capacity) or negative (heightened risk for injury or illness) adaptations and allow for the ideal progression of exercise prescription. …”
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Virtual reality-based cognitive–behavioural therapy for the treatment of anxiety in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a randomised clinical trial by Jiajun Weng, Junbo Ge, Jiajia Liu, Juying Qian, Xiao Huang, Yuanyuan Li, Juan Peng, Yan'e Lu, Dong Huang, Pingyuan Yang, Shikun Xu, Lihua Guan, Qibing Wang, Zexin Zhao, Yabin Wei

“…Cybersickness was the main reported adverse event (n=5).Conclusions Our results indicate that VR-CBT can significantly reduce post-AMI anxiety at the acute stage of the illness; the improvement was maintained at the 3-month follow-up.Trial registration number The trial was registered at www.chictr.org.cn with the identifier: ChiCTR2200066435.…”
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SARS-CoV-2 infections in pediatric and young adult recipients of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy: an international registry report by Hongyan Liu, Colleen Callahan, Shannon L Maude, Kevin Owen McNerney, Rebecca M Richards, Paibel Aguayo-Hiraldo, Friso G Calkoen, Julie-An Talano, Amy Moskop, Adriana Balduzzi, Jennifer Krajewski, Hema Dave, Anant Vatsayan, Yimei Li, Kara Lynn Davis

“…SARS-CoV-2-associated illness was graded as asymptomatic, mild, moderate, or severe COVID-19, or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). …”
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The Impact of Training Intervention on Levels of Indicator Bacteria and Prevalence of Selected Pathogens in Raw Milk From Smallholder Women Dairy Farmers in Central Ethiopia by Achenef Melaku Beyene, Seleshe Nigatu, Juan C. Archila-Godinez, Kebede Amenu, Barbara Kowalcyk, Desalegne Degefaw, Binyam Mogess, Baye Gelaw, Mucheye Gizachew, Araya Mengistu, Ahmed G. Abdelhamid, James Barkley, Ahmed Yousef

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Community awareness, perceptions, and behavior regarding antibiotic consumption in an urban area of Pondicherry by C. Niranjhanadevi, P. Stalin

“…Among them, more than 70% of participants were aware that antibiotics are used for killing germs but almost all said that antibiotics are often needed for cold and flu illnesses. 83.2% opined that they should take antibiotics to prevent getting a serious illness. 42.3% of the study participants never completed a full course of antibiotic treatment after feeling better with a few doses. …”
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Results from Ad Hoc and Routinely Collected Data among Celiac Women with Infertility or Pregnancy Related Disorders: Italy, 2001–2011 by Francesca Fortunato, Domenico Martinelli, Rosa Prato, Biagio Pedalino

“…Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic autoimmune illness triggered by gluten consumption in genetically predisposed individuals. …”
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Shared Paths to Well-Being: The Impact of Group Therapy by Elena Renée Sequeira-Nazaré, Bernhard Schmitz

“…This study explored the impact of an art of living intervention within group psychotherapy for depression, focusing on constructs like life satisfaction, self-efficacy, and depression. Mental illness prevalence often exceeds available treatment options, particularly in Germany, where group psychotherapy is a viable alternative. …”
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Spontaneous Loculated Pneumomediastinum in a COVID-19-Infected Patient by Sirous Jafari, Zahra Jahani, Reihane Alikhani, SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi, Malihe Hasannezhad, Faeze Salahshour, Ali Asadollahi-Amin

“…While we are still learning about COVID-19 affecting people, older persons and persons with underlying diseases such as high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes mellitus (DM) appear to develop serious illness and more complications often than others. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 Viral Shedding and Associated Factors among COVID-19 Inpatients and Outpatients by Masoomeh Sofian, Behzad Khansarinejad, Ehsanollah Ghaznavi-Rad, Farzaneh Shokoohi, Hossein Mazaherpour, Farzane Farmani, Mona Sadat Larijani, Leila Pakpour, Amitis Ramezani

“…Viral eradication occurred in 44.8% two weeks after illness initiation whereas in 71% who achieved a negative PCR test in the third week. …”
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A Rare Case of Post-Partum Hemorrhage with Refractory Thrombotic Microangiopathy, and Hepatic Infarction: A Diagnostic Dilemma with High Mortality by Naved Yousuf Hasan, Asiah Salem Rugaan, Noha Ahmed Mohamed Ali, Masood Iqbal

“…The patient required 7 sessions of plasma exchange along with systemic steroids. During her illness, she developed rising liver enzymes and bilirubin, diffuse intravascular coagulation, renal failure, alveolar hemorrhage, and acute fulminant hepatic failure. …”
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Effectiveness of Palivizumab in Preventing RSV Hospitalization in High Risk Children: A Real-World Perspective by Nusrat Homaira, William Rawlinson, Thomas L. Snelling, Adam Jaffe

“…Palivizumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody, has been recommended for high risk infants to prevent severe RSV-associated respiratory illness. This recommendation is based on evidence of efficacy when used under clinical trial conditions. …”
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