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Dear Scholars,
You all are well aware that COVID-19 has disrupted every aspect of our lives including K12 and higher education sectors. Keeping in view the WHO recommendations, nations are enforcing social distancing in all fields including primary, secondary, higher secondary and university education. If we think positively, then this culprit COVID-19 is a blessing in disguise as the people are now taking care of personal hygiene, cleanliness of their surroundings and trying their best to improve their immunity. Besides educational institutions are reaching to the students.
During the past three months, the schools and universities around the globe have extended their outreach from a confined classroom to the students` bedrooms. Now the students can learn with more flexibility without wasting their times in travelling to their respective schools. The online mode of education has proven fruitful as it has lead to reduce institutional expenses which they had been spending on building & maintenance of infrastructure, electricity, furniture, multimedia and computing equipment. There is likelihood that tuition fee may be reduced with time if the situation prolongs (god forbid).
Apart from the above facts, I personally believe that online mode of education can not replace laboratory and clinical training of students who are pursuing their undergraduate studies in medicine, dentistry, engineering and such other technical fields.
What do you think? Will this batch of undergraduate students who are learning through online media i.e. LMS, Zoom, Webax etc, be able to acquire the professional competencies required in their respective fields. If the answer is no, then how can we utilize online platforms to ensure delivery of the quality education and achievement of course and program learning outcomes?
Thank you .
The big five personality trait model ( McCrae & Costa) describes 5 bipolar dimensions of personality. The model received some criticism but is still generally accepted and perhaps it is the only descriptive model of personality that is "widely" accepted. What do you think are the strengths and weaknesses of this model? Is it complete or not? If not, what is missing?
Best wishes Henrik
50 percent of physicians joined the Nazi party. For some reason, they were more enthusiastic than other professions to collaborate with Nazis. Other professions did not have such high representation in the Nazi party.
I wonder about the possible reasons for that enthusiasm.
Hello, dear fellow scholars.
I'm writing this post after the advice that I received to bring to your knowledge a lesson that I'm learning yet at the beginning of my academic career.
I'm one of the authors of a case report that has been published by the journal 'Archives Of Medicine' without our consent¹. Before the case report has been published, we have sent a formal e-mail soliciting to the editors the withdrawal of our intention to publish, because we have found that the journal was being investigated due to suspicious activities².
I'm currently a 3rd-year medical school student and this was the first time that we have submitted an article to a journal (me and my colleague, which also is a 3rd-year medical school student). I'm mentioning this just to contextualize the fact that we are pretty much beginners in the matters of scientific publications and we never even imagined that such thing as "predatory publishers" exist.
When we started to look for journals to publish the case report, we were looking for a cost-free journal, but at the time we submitted the article to the Archives of Medicine, by an honest mistake and lack of attention, we didn't realize that this journal has a publishing fee, and a few days after we had submitted the case report we received an e-mail with a charging bill of over 1,500 euros.
Immediately after receiving this e-mail, we started to write a formal message to the editorial board, explaining to them about our mistake, apologizing for the inconvenience, and soliciting the withdrawal of the intent to publish the case report. Also, we got suspicious by the fact that this charging form was asking for sensitive financial information (like credit card number, CVV number, and other info).
In the meantime, we came across a post (here in Research Gate) mentioning the suspicious activities about the IMedPub² (the group responsible for the Archives of Medicine). As soon as we found out these facts, we sent the e-mail formally soliciting the withdrawal of the intent to publish the case report. However, a few days later as I've mentioned at the beginning of this post, the journal published the case report¹ without our consent and ignoring our solicitation. We have only completed the initial forms for starting the publishing process and send them the manuscript by completing the on-line form but we didn't make any payment for the publication fee since we sent this e-mail soliciting the withdrawal of the submitting intention (even though, the journal published it anyway).
¹https://www.archivesofmedicine.com/medicine/atypical-case-of-chronic-granulomatous-disease-a-case-report.pdf
²https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_I_trust_OMICS_iMedPub_Conference_Series_Allied_Academies_Pulsus_Trade_Sci_SciTechnol_and_EuroSciCon
All this post was originated by the concern about the fact that our names are now associated with an article published by a journal that was under the accusation of suspicious activities and how this could affect our academic reputation and professional future.
We have received some advice to turn the situation public here in Research Gate to other researchers to learn from this lesson and also to hear your opinion. We'll appreciate it if you let us know your perspective about the case and if you can advise a better way of how to resolve this situation.
I apologize for this enormous text, but I think it was necessary to explain the whole situation with some more detail.
If you want to know more details about the original post, the link is the following: https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_proceed_in_cases_of_violation_of_copyright
Thanks for your attention.
Best regards,
Wilian Sant'Ana
Indeed, I have observed that there is some scientific journals that listed in Scopus sources of not good quality from scientific point of view. At the same time some Universities are depending on Scoups in a similar manner to that of Thomson & Routers or Clarivate analytics.
Many journal publishers are opening their COVID-19 researches for free to the public. Among them which are the most useful? Is more famous one the better one?
If you got a research on COVID-19 on hand, which one of the following will you submit to ?
Which one is easiest to accept your publication?
Please vote as you like!
Other than those common opened platform below, you can also suggest any new ones you think is useful for COVID-19 research.
Many studies and analyes we do require statistics to back up. However, many times the results run out to be statistically significant, yet when interpret it in the clinical context, it is too small to be significant.
This is rather frustrating. Any solution for solving this?
Is those very small interval unit scale more easily affected?
Can we change our analytics method to cope with the results?
Beyond statistical significance: clinical interpretation of rehabilitation research literature.
Int J Sports Phys Ther. 2014;9(5):726–736.
Are immunity enhancer medicine (Homeopathic and Ayurvedic ) helpful to prevent yourself from Corona virus?
In a paper deposited in BioRxiv entitled: "Susceptibility of ferrets, cats, dogs, and different domestic animals to SARS-coronavirus-2" the team from Harbin Vet Institute intentionally infected several species of animals including cats with SARS-CoV-2. The results showed that the virus was transmitted between the cats, but no sympthoms of COVID-19 were observed.
This result is interesting in terms of an observation made by a medic from Spain - Sabina Olex-Condor that from the 100 patients serious with COVID-19 that she examined there were no cat owners. She suggested as a hypothesis that due to cross-immunity (cats are a known reservoir of coronaviruses) cat owners have milder sympthoms of COVID-19.
I'm aware that the paper from Harbin Institute is a pilot study, has many possible dead ends and limitations. I'm also aware that this cross-immunity hypothesis suggested by Sabina need serious assement due to limited number (and problalbly non-representative set) of patients.
Do you think that this is possible in terms of knowledge of human immunology? If the above is met do any of you have access to indepth demografic (?) data of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 to check this hypothesis?
Disclaimer: not an expert in medicine or veterinary, I study plant genomics, this is pure scientific curiosity.
I hope that your families and friends are well.
I am a Brazilian psychiatrist with a master degree in preventive medicine. This year I will coordinate an academic ambulatory for medical students. I would like to teach deprescribing in psychiatry. The students are in the final year of medicine degree, and they will spend one month in this ambulatory. The ambulatory is part of a primary care setting which don’t have psychiatrists or other specialists. So, my major difficult is how to select patients? Which patients would benefit of this approach? Anyone has previous experience or suggestion??
Thank you!
How to remove toxic heavy metal traces like mercury, lead, cadmium etc. from solid herbal material or food material?
is there any specific methodology or technique to remove metal traces from solid material like food or plant herbal material?
so that after removal of metal, the solid material can be used as food or medicine.
Empirical use of non-harmful drugs for patients is superior to evidence-based medicine ... or not
Does anyone use famotidine in COVID?
Can we use artificial intelligence technologies such as Machine Learning and Deep Learning to help in finding medicine or vaccine for COVID-19. Any ideas?
What are the most important factors to considered when thinking about the cities of the future? What scholars to involve? Or, can we even leave some academic discipline behind and not include them in discussion?
This is just a teaser for an upcoming conference...
Theology in Rijeka and the Department of Philosophy of the Catholic Faculty of Theology at the University of Zagreb, the Department of Social and Human Sciences in Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Rijeka, the Faculty of Health Studies of the University of Rijeka and Faculty of Theology at University Nicolaus Copernicus, Toruń (Poland) - organize an international symposium, titled „The City of Future: Anxiety of Expansion“, which will be held on November 13, 2020 (Friday) in the Theology Building (Rijeka, Omladinska 14).
The situation is going worse and the health system in IRAQ is so poor to provide the simplest treatment needs of patients. What should we do in such a horrible situation?
Is there advice that should we follow to stay safe and healthy until they come up with the vaccine of COVID-19.
How to make our immunity stronger in this situation, what should we eat? what should we drink? what kind of medicine should we have to have at home?
I am interested in how people and cultures view practitioners and supporters of Nutraceuticals. For generations, food or plant based substances have been used as a treatment for disease. The pharmaceutical industry has replaced grandma remedies. Charlatans have given the herbal drug industry a bad name. True believers of herbal cures though have also stretched the public's faith with cures for baldness to cancer and now to Covid-19.
How weather can be a factor in Corona virus spreading? As Africa is still safe from it.
I am interested in collaborating with any researcher working on modelling corona virus using fractional derivatives. If you are a researcher or you have a related project, please feel free to let me know if you need someone to collaborate with you on this research study. If you know someone else working on this research project, please share my collaboration interest with him.her. I would be very happy to collaborate on this research project with other researchers worldwide.
Hello Colleagues
Recentrly, fungal infections cause an increase of morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients and in immunocompromised persons. What are the most recent recommendations and guidelines for the control and prevention of nosocomial fungal infections.
Thanks
Hi all,
I am stuck at the following problem: I need to determine if there is a significant difference in Length of stay (LOS) in two groups: decendents and survivors, in different age groups. Can somebody help me with this? In a similar article I found they did use kruskal wallis to calculate this. Somebody some ideas to solve this in stata?
Thanks a lot!
Consider the following voluntary scheme. There would be some eligibility requirements that would be consistent with the principles of health promotion. Only certain target groups would qualify.
You sign up and for walking 10,000 steps per day, you get a certain amount of money deposited directly to your cell phone. In principle, and in theory, what is wrong with this? In practice, people could cheat and so on but with the development of new technologies, it would be much more difficult to cheat so this disadvantage can be minimized. The funds for this scheme could come from a public-private partnership.
aoa i have undergone analysis of differents researches if we reduced its reproduction by preventing pcr activity
It obvious that use of expired medicines where there are alternatives is unacceptable. There are, however, situations where the only available alternative medical product (medicine) used for life-threatening disease condition is expired and left with bare hands. What do healthcare professionals do on this situation, especially in this covid-19 pandemic where procurement is a challenge? Based on the risks-benefits assessment - the risk of leaving a patient without alternative and using expired medicine to save the patient and its associated risks - if they clinicians are going to use the product, what strategies they should follow to avoid medico-legal issues and transparency with consumers.
Looking forward to hear back from you?
Kind regards,
Mulugeta
Genome sequencing helps find vital information, for example the strain type, virulence, location of origin and differences between strains transmitted within the country and in other countries
I need two mammography datasets sourced by different counties or institutions where images are similar to each other.
I'm reading the International evaluation of an AI system for breast cancer screening released by google Jan-2020
They used two datasets. One from the UK (OPTIMAM) which needs permission for use. The other from Northwestern Medicine which again needs permission to use.
Are there publicly available datasets that resemble the two above mentioned datasets? especially the OPTIMAM?
FDA has issued guidance to provide recommendations to health care providers and investigators on the administration and study of investigational convalescent plasma collected from individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 (COVID-19 convalescent plasma) during the public health emergency.
The guidance provides recommendations on the following:
- pathways for use of investigational COVID-19 convalescent plasma
- patient eligibility
- collection of COVID-19 convalescent plasma, including donor eligibility and donor qualifications
- labeling, and
- record keeping
Because COVID-19 convalescent plasma has not yet been approved for use by FDA, it is regulated as an investigational product. A health care provider must participate in one of the pathways described below. FDA does not collect COVID-19 convalescent plasma or provide COVID-19 convalescent plasma. Health care providers or acute care facilities should instead obtain COVID-19 convalescent plasma from an FDA-registered blood establishment.
As we know that, every country will take a standard time to the approved patent of medicine, however in this pandemic situation, this will continue in the same process? Should we not consider the situational gravity for the greater good of humanity?
I was working for a project. The computational part is done. Now it's time to write a paper. But I am procrastinating much and actually I am not sure how to start or where to start.Which part should I write first? How can I accelerate the process.
Is it fair and reasonable to say that in the medical sciences, English is widely accepted (universally?) by scientists as the main language for communication and defending research findings?
At this point in time, is this a valid statement?
Will this acceptance continue in the foreseeable future?
Academic journals publish original articles and higher level of evidence like review as their basis of survival. However, most journals also allow the manuscript type of "Letter to the editor" for readers in the field to reply previously published articles or on special events and issues like those once in a lifetime e.g. COVID-19.
As a researcher or author, do you think it is worth writing such a manuscript type?
Can you resubmit such "Letter" to another journal I'd being rejected?
Will you expect any citations from such "Letter"?
Will such "Letter" be externally peer-reviewed?
Is an underlying relationship with the editor an advantage of writing such "Letter"?
What do the editor expect you to write before accept your "Letter"?
Will "Letter" increase your h-index number?
There is no source of information on the acceptance rate of such articles.
Do you have any experience on the acceptance rate of such?
If such "Letter" is rejected, how will you handle the hard work with great effort paid?
How to write a letter to the editor that the editor will want to publish.
Can Med Assoc J. 1985;132(12):1344.
What does it even mean? Are you suffering from Empathy Deficit Disorder (EDD)?
In the age of Covid19, is there a basic conflict between science and superstition in the discipline of medical knowledge? Are there some simple, sensible, robust and reasonable ways to distinguish a scientific statement (or fact) from a superstitious statement?
To stay focused, the topic will concentrate on science versus superstition in the scientific discipline of medicine. We will try our very best to stay focused and not stray off track. it is very easy to wander off message and be all over the map. i will try to summarize the key conclusions from time to time.
In the age of the Corona Virus, there are so many statements out there. The statements may not be scientific. But if they are not scientific, are they false? Are they fake? Are they simply statements based on superstition.
What should we do if people believe in statements that are not based on science? Should we be polite and tolerate their beliefs?
As long as people do not harm others, then from society’s point of view, the fact that people hold non-scientific hypotheses is probably benign. However, the trouble starts when the same people act these beliefs, and then cause harm to others. The question arises: what should society do in this case?
Based on the discussion, there are two assumptions and four categories.
Assumption1: Beliefs cannot be justified or unjustified.
Assumption2: hypotheses can be disproven
Scientific hypotheses that are based on justified facts in natural causation. Or scientific hypotheses have not been disproven (I prefer the negative formulation because we may never be able to prove anything but we are unable to disprove it.)
Since science cannot give a definitive answer, there are many competing answers that merit our attention, and we may not be able to select among them.
Non-scientific hypotheses are unjustified facts that may be “proven” in the future with better evidence and facts.
Pseudo-scientific hypotheses: not sure where these fit in?
Superstitions are unjustified beliefs in supernatural causation.
WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrious, Rich, Democratic)
Typically, WEIRD people have Western-influenced education. They are comfortable in international languages and have non-traditional values. Usually, they are young, hardworking, urban professionals with living and working experiences abroad.
What are the merits, if any, in the challenges that lawyers and economists have raised against the Covid19 lockdown? How much weight should society give to the opinions of epidemiologists?
In a patient with hereditary desminopathy (Thr341Pro DES mutation in a heterozygous state) with disease progression, a significant decrease in olfaction is noted. How can this fact be explained?
Some reports suggest that in the fight against Covid19, the use of ventilators have not saved lives. How do we assess these reports? Any merits?
Hi,
I am conducting a research project to see whether demographic/patient factors can predict patients who are likely to suffer a post-operative death (Categorical outcome Y/N).
I have conducted univariate regression procedure using SPSS Firths regression as I have a small sample size with the dependant variable being a sparse event. This has given me 3-4 variables with P<0.10.
DO I now proceed to perform a multi-logistic regression? If so, do I run Firths regression with all of these variables selected as co-variates or do I perform a more traditional multi-nominal regression model instead?
Any help would be appreciated as I can't find any guidance on this issue.
COVID-19 has pull people apart from each other. Social distancing is the main way to prevent spreading of infection. Tele-medicine, once used for rural area remote healthcare model, is the emerging new way of practice under COVID-19.
Different specialties have different practicing needs, what difficulties do you encounter on applying tele-medicine under COVID-19 in your specialty? Will tele-medicine totally uproot the usual face-to-face room consultation of medical practitioners? And becoming the new service model?
What is your view?
Some references:
Virtually Perfect? Telemedicine for Covid-19
NEJM
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2003539
Covid-19 and Health Care’s Digital Revolution
NEJM
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2005835
Telemedicine in the Era of COVID-19
The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaip.2020.03.008
Keep Calm and Log On: Telemedicine for COVID-19 Pandemic Response.
DOI: 10.12788/jhm.3419
‘Healing at a distance’—telemedicine and COVID-19
Public Money & Management
DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2020.1748855
The Role of Telehealth in Reducing the Mental Health Burden from COVID-19
Telemedicine and e-Health
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2020.0068
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as "the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness". But some people believe traditional medicine is contrasted with scientific medicine.
What is your opinion? Can we use traditional medicine for treatment of COVID19? If your answer is yes, how do you want to do it?
Describe impact of situation caused by pandemic of coronavirus COVID-19 on your Academic and Research activities.
Explain your action in a way to stay focused on Science and Preparing/Writhing/Publishing research.
A famine of food does not necessarily mean that there is a shortage of food; it is the inaccessibility of food. Is it the same with the Covid19, in the sense that there is inaccessibility to medical resources?
after the colonization of vibiro choleraea in intestinal of human being than cause diarrhea after secretion of cholera toxin. in serious case how can stop that secretion?
Dear researchers
In your opinion, when is the peak number of cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)?
Some people claim that the people that need the vaccine the most are the least able to pay for the vaccine. Is this a correct claim? If yes, what should be the appropriate policy response?
The evidence suggests that the Covid19 virus jumped from bats to humans.
COVID- 19
Respiratory infections can be transmitted through droplets of different sizes: when the droplet particles are >5-10 μm in diameter they are referred to as respiratory droplets, and when then are <5μm in diameter, they are referred to as droplet nuclei. According to current evidence, COVID-19 virus is primarily transmitted between people through respiratory droplets and contact routes.2-7 In an analysis of 75,465 COVID-19 cases in China, airborne transmission was not reported.
Droplet transmission occurs when a person is in in close contact (within 1 m) with someone who has respiratory symptoms (e.g., coughing or sneezing) and is therefore at risk of having his/her mucosae (mouth and nose) or conjunctiva (eyes) exposed to potentially infective respiratory droplets. Transmission may also occur through fomites in the immediate environment around the infected person. Therefore, transmission of the COVID-19 virus can occur by direct contact with infected people and indirect contact with surfaces in the immediate environment or with objects used on the infected person (e.g., stethoscope or thermometer).
Airborne transmission is different from droplet transmission as it refers to the presence of microbes within droplet nuclei, which are generally considered to be particles <5μm in diameter, can remain in the air for long periods of time and be transmitted to others over distances greater than 1 m.
In the context of COVID-19, airborne transmission may be possible in specific circumstances and settings in which procedures or support treatments that generate aerosols are performed; i.e., endotracheal intubation, bronchoscopy, open suctioning, administration of nebulized treatment, manual ventilation before intubation, turning the patient to the prone position, disconnecting the patient from the ventilator, non-invasive positive-pressure ventilation, tracheostomy, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
There is some evidence that COVID-19 infection may lead to intestinal infection and be present in faeces. However, to date only one study has cultured the COVID-19 virus from a single stool specimen. There have been no reports of faecal−oral transmission of the COVID-19 virus to date.
As a public health measures to control the spread of the pandemic coronavirus, social distancing and home quarantine are implemented in some countries.
As a matter of fact, patients are absence from clinic under COVID-19, and clinic-based diabetic control monitoring becomes challenging.
Do you expect a change in diabetic control for these patients when staying home?
They have less exercise, and may eat more snacks at home.
Or in contrast, they are too bored, and have time to develop new exercise without pressure from work? Besides, they are banned from social around, and may eat drink less alcohol and eat less feast.
What do you think?
What are the latest updates about the route of transmission and its impact?
The image shows surgical and gynaecological instruments used by ancient Egyptians over 3000-5000 years BC. It explains how advanced medicine at that time, scalpels, forceps, curettes were known and what we use as surgical instruments date back to ancient Egyptians designs. The question is, do you have a history of medicine in your medical/health curricula? What are the objectives of this component? And how do you integrate this part to other elements in the curriculum?
A milestone by Theodor Billroth in surgery and cancer surgery.
It is
- the 139th anniversary day (Jan 29, 1881)
Christian Albert Theodor Billroth (1829-1894)
performed
the first successful distal gastrectomy
for gastric cancer within 90 min
However, we may should be aware that everything in medicine surgery cancersurgery science needs teamwork
We are nothing without the Team!
Theodor Billroth *26 Apr 1829 †06 Feb 1894
Remembering giants in science, medicine and surgery - German Surgeon & Co-Founder of academic surgery
Happy Birthday
"I can not understand how someone can read receptively only"
"Only those who know the past & present of science and art, will boost their progress with awareness"
~ Theodor Billroth
COVID-19 is spreading around the world, and faeces were popular and agreed for the presence of viral RNA with different studies reported. Its presence mean that the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is one of the hosting organ for such coronavirus.
How are other parts of the GI tract system affected by this virus?
Reference:
Clinical features of covid-19-related liver damage.
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020 Apr 10.
Pancreatic injury patterns in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia.
Gastroenterology. 2020 Apr 01.
Under COVID_19, most evidence and data are on adults, but more and more paediatric cases with some mortality are ongoing.
Let's gather all the paediatric related COVID-19 research here for referencing.
1) Yung CF, Kam K, Wong MS, et al. Environment and Personal Protective Equipment Tests for SARS-CoV-2 in the Isolation Room of an Infant With Infection. Ann Intern Med. 2020; [Epub ahead of print 1 April 2020]. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/M20-0942
2) Brooks Samantha K, Smith Louise E, Webster Rebecca K, Weston Dale, Woodland Lisa, Hall Ian, Rubin G James. The impact of unplanned school closure on children’s social contact: rapid evidence review. Euro Surveill. 2020;25(13):pii=2000188. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.13.2000188
3) Dong L, Tian J, He S, et al. Possible Vertical Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 From an Infected Mother to Her Newborn. JAMA. Published online March 26, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.4621
4) Iqbal SN, Overcash R, Mokhtari N, Saeed H, Gold S, Auguste T, et al. An Uncomplicated Delivery in a Patient with Covid-19 in the United States. N Engl J Med. 2020 Apr 01.
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2007605
5) Qiu H, Wu J, Hong L, Luo Y, Song Q, Chen D. Clinical and epidemiological features of 36 children with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Zhejiang, China: an observational cohort study. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020 Mar 25.
6) Zeng H, Xu C, Fan J, et al. Antibodies in Infants Born to Mothers With COVID-19 Pneumonia. JAMA. Published online March 26, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.4861
7) Zeng L, Xia S, Yuan W, et al. Neonatal Early-Onset Infection With SARS-CoV-2 in 33 Neonates Born to Mothers With COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. JAMA Pediatr. Published online March 26, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.0878
8) Chen D, Yang H, Cao Y, Cheng W, Duan T, Fan C, et al. Expert consensus for managing pregnant women and neonates born to mothers with suspected or confirmed novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2020 Mar 20.
COVID-19 is in no doubt affecting every walks of life. Its impact towards every one and others' psychological and psychiatric health is significant, yet how should we quantify them?
Let's pull all related publications here for reference:
Understanding and Addressing Sources of Anxiety Among Health Care Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Mental Health Consequences of COVID-19 and Physical DistancingThe Need for Prevention and Early Intervention
In my circle of friends there is a lively debate if corona is as dangerous as our media and governments is trying to portrait. Im one of those who doesn't believe Covid 19 is so much more dangerous to the general population than, lets say the flu. With that said I dont mean I would like to contract it, or any other illness. What is your take on the current situation? Is Covid 19 in your view something to be feared or do you like me view it as something that should not affect our lives and our economy to the extent it now has. How does your society handle the issue and what is your take? Best regards Henrik
Probiotics are live microorganisms that are intended to have health benefits when consumed or applied to the body. They can be found in yogurt and other fermented foods, dietary supplements, and beauty products.
Under COVID-19, many human activities are suspended, public entertainment places are closed down. Football legends are almost fully cut off worldwide.
The targets for gambler to bet are less and less, no matter football, horse racing, boxing, bar ...
How do the psychiatric addictive gambler coping with their addiction under COVID-19?
In psychiatry, psycho therapy or behavioral modification is always used. Is COVID-19 helping these addictive gambler to run out of their obsession?
The virus is primarily spread between people during close contact, often via small droplets produced by coughing, sneezing, or talking. While these droplets are produced when breathing out, they usually fall to the ground or onto surfaces rather than remain in the air over long distances.People may also become infected by touching a contaminated surface and then touching their eyes, nose, or mouth. The virus can survive on surfaces for up to 72 hours. It is most contagious during the first three days after the onset of symptoms, although spread may be possible before symptoms appear and in later stages of the disease.
Dengue fever is a disease caused by a family of viruses transmitted by infected mosquitoes. It is an acute illness of sudden onset that usually follows a benign course with symptoms such as headache, fever, exhaustion, severe muscle and joint pain, swollen lymph nodes (lymphadenopathy), and rash.
A hospital-acquired infection (HAI), also known as a nosocomial infection, is an infection that is acquired in a hospital or other health care facility. To emphasize both hospital and nonhospital settings, it is sometimes instead called a health care–associated infection (HAI or HCAI).
COVID-19 is putting a huge impact on the society by the isolation measures it brings. People are now working from home office, and every walks of life are pausing their usual work and life.
How about the booming exponential rise in COVID-19 researches? But a shut downed administrative team of the publishing office? And the loss of manpower towards battle over the. COVID-19 frontline?
With the limited journal space, will timely researches be delayed in publication? Which may miss out important messages towards the public!
Peer Review: Publishing in the time of COVID-19
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.57162
What's your view?
Dear Researchers,
The current Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic in China has been declared an "Emergency of International Concern" by the World Health Organization (WHO). The number of SARS-CoV-2 cases are consistently increasing around the world. We are doing a survey on SARS-CoV-2 in health professionals to understand the existing knowledge gaps in the Novel coronavirus disease. Thus, we request your participation in this survey and provide your valuable opinion.
Kindly participate in the Survey:
We value your input and thank you in advance for your participation!
Sincerely
Akshaya Bhagavathula
WHat do you think is the correlation? It's impact? and the possible transmission route?
Neurologic Features in Severe SARS-CoV-2 Infection
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2008597
Many of us are doing ongoing prospective research, yet COVID-19 has paused our work for a while or even months because of the city shut-down. There is an unexpected huge increase in lost to follow-up in our research clinics.
How should we deal with these cases, and the associated data?
The selection bias caused by the lost to follow-up cannot be adjusted by study design, as it is started already. What methods can we use to adjust instead?
Can anyone simply explain how inverse probability-of-censoring weighted estimation technique work on this issue?
How to run it practically, e.g. by SPSS software? Or other higher level of statistical software is needed?
How about stratification-based methods or weighted methods? How are they working actually?
Any practical guide available online?
Great thanks in advance with all your help!
Ventilator is running out of supply under COVID-19, especially severely ill patients require non-invasive or even invasive ventilator support.
When there is outbreak of COVID-19 locally, physicians are facing the difficulties to choose between different patients for the allocation of limited medical resources.
Is there any simple way to turn something on hand to a usable ventilation machine? No matter household electronic gadgets, e.g. fan, vacuum cleaner, or existing medical equipment.
When not inside an infected cell or in the process of infecting a cell, viruses exist in the form of independent particles, or virions, consisting of: (i) the genetic material, i.e. long molecules of DNA or RNA that encode the structure of the proteins by which the virus acts; (ii) a protein coat, the capsid, which surrounds and protects the genetic material; and in some cases (iii) an outside envelope of lipids. The shapes of these virus particles range from simple helical and icosahedral forms to more complex structures. Most virus species have virions too small to be seen with an optical microscope, about one hundredth the size of most bacteria.
Conozco algunos centros comunitarios que trabajan con este tipo de medicina, y considero que parte de la sabiduría en ciencias de la salud parte de como se tratan las enfermedades actualmente en las comunidades de los pueblos nativos.
I am involved in a post graduate programme in medicine. I observed but in all modules where self-directed learning has been applied, students are not progressing as expected. My thinking was may be our transition was not well done. Any input well-appreciated.
Regards
Prosper
Hello!
I would like to understand in what cases blood or some other biological liquid passes through implant or graft with some porous microstructure according the Darcy law (thanks to the pressure differences).
I have an idea to produce a research about blood permeability through various implants microstructure, but unfortunately it is harder than I thought to found some justification in literature that blood actually could pass through such microstructure due the Darcy law. Thus, I would be grateful for your help in this question - maybe you have some papers about it or some other helpful stuff.
Sincerely, Catherine
Many efforts are spent to prevent, treat and stop COVID-19 spread.
but I think these efforts are fragmentary and not organized.
there is no platform for a scientific collaboration that could shorten the time of interesting findings, some nations hide some facts are a privilege of authorship or for other political reasons.
I think that all countries should a global platform for scientific collaboration.
Personally I have some ideas that could be proposed for the treatment of COVID-19 based on scientific facts but with the innovative mode of application, how and where can I try to apply them?
All nations should avoid wasting their time to find a solution for COVID-19 without international collaboration.
till india is in second phase, as per world patient data india spreading rate is very low. but it may increase exponential. what you think about outbreak of corona virus in india.
Hi,
I am conducting a research project to see whether demographic/patient factors can predict patients who are likely to suffer a post-operative death (Categorical outcome Y/N).
I have conducted univariate regression procedure using SPSS Firths regression as I have a small sample size with the dependant variable being a sparse event. This has given me 3-4 variables with P<0.10.
DO I now proceed to perform a multi-logistic regression? If so, do I run Firths regression with all of these variables selected as co-variates or do I perform a more traditional multi-nominal regression model instead?
Any help would be appreciated as I can't find any guidance on this issue.
Viruses can not be killed. If so does a person infected from CoViD-19 doesn't acts as a carrier after his cure?
That is if a person is infected with CoViD-19 and he is been cured by the medicine, does he has that virus in his body in deactivated form? Or the body kills the virus by phagocytosis by the WBC's?