CONCLUSIONS: Ensuring the preparedness of health professionals for potential future outbreaks is imperative to maintain quality and patient safety. Interventions such as this one offer valuable insights and generate new tools for health professionals
The main protease (M^(pro)) plays a crucial role in coronavirus, as it cleaves viral polyproteins and host cellular proteins to ensure successful replication. In this review, we discuss the preference in the recognition sequence of M^(pro) based on
Children have been mostly excluded from COVID-19 clinical trials, and, as a result, most medicines approved for COVID-19 have no pediatric indication. In addition, access to COVID-19 therapeutics remains limited. Collecting physicians' experiences
CONCLUSION: Reliable data particularly on the safety of children is lacking as majority of the current over-the-counter COVID-19 vaccines were for emergency use. Many of these were still in their Phase III and Phase IV trials. The need for a mutant
CONCLUSION: Though the use of cough sounds in diagnostics is not new, academic interest has accelerated in the past decade. Cough sound offers the possibility of an accessible, noninvasive, and low-cost disease biomarker, particularly in the era of
CONCLUSION: Restarting antitumor therapy 2-4 weeks after having mild or moderate COVID-19 is a relatively safe strategy for breast cancer patients that does not increase the risk of treatment-related adverse events.
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: This cross-sectional study found large increases in cannabis involvement in ED visits for traffic injury over time, which may have accelerated following nonmedical cannabis commercialization. Although the frequency of
CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy among pregnant women in Durban, SA, is exceptionally high. This requires urgent attention by the relevant health authorities (both professional health organisations and the SA Department of Health) as
BACKGROUND: Few studies have investigated the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health beyond 2020. This study quantifies changes to healthcare utilisation and symptoms for common mental health problems over the pandemic's first 21 months.