Outpatient clinics have been severely restricted during COVID-19; the specialties face a tremendous challenge in service provision going forward. Attendance has been low in many centres despite implementation of COVID-19-related safety precautions.1 This study aimed to ...

Abstract An important opportunity to overcome the crisis consequences of COVID-19 is also to restart the economy through solving the accumulated infrastructure problems, including transport. Programs for the development of airports, the railway network, and maritime tra...

Abstract Background SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) infection is associated with various complications. PMA (primary meningococcal arthritis) is a rare meningococcus-associated disease causing arthritis of the knee usually, without any signs...

Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented social and political challenges. Mitigation strategies often disrupt the daily lives of citizens and constrain rights and privileges. Policies intended to contain disease spread have provoked resentment, resi...

The Ontario Public Health Laboratories system (OPHL) is in the midst of a six-year plan to implement molecular tools for pandemic influenza diagnostics in one central and three regional public health laboratories. This plan has been formulated as a consequence of: 1) ex...

The impact of covid-19 on children will continue for years, affecting them educationally, emotionally, and financially, with indirect effects on their health.1 Children must not be sidelined as we rebuild and redesign systems for the future. One “benefit” of the pandemi...

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly destructs the rhythm of global modern human civilization but worldwide lockdown radically recovers the health of the total environment. The Himalayan trans-boundary rivers provide huge provisional, regulatory and cultural ecosystem se...

Abstract Translational errors are necessary so as to allow gene expression in various organisms. In retroviruses, synthesis of pol gene products necessitates either readthrough of a stop codon or frameshifting. Here we present an experimental system that permits quantif...

This study analyzed the morbidity and mortality rates of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in different prefectures of Japan. Under the constraint that daily maximum confirmed deaths and daily maximum cases should exceed 4 and 10, respectively, 14 prefectures ...

Introduction: This project examined the impact of COVID-19 and associated restrictions on alcohol practises (consumption and stockpiling), and perceptions of health risk among women in midlife (those aged 45–64 years).Methods: We collected online survey data from 2,437 ...