PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Care

Galectin-3 is a beta-galactoside-binding lectin involved in inflammation and lung fibrosis and postulated to enhance thrombosis. In COVID-19, it is considered to be a prognostic marker of severity. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether

CONCLUSIONS: This indicated that positive or negative emotions would not make COVID-19 better or worse, and strategies that attempted to use positive emotions to improve COVID-19 symptoms may be useless. Improving knowledge about the SARS-CoV-2 and

Face masks are an indispensable low-cost public healthcare necessity for containing viral transmission. After the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) became a pandemic, there was an unprecedented demand for, and subsequent increase in face mask production

Plain language summary From jewels and coinage to anticancer and antiviral agents, the peculiar 'soft' character as well as physicochemical, redox and ligand exchange properties of gold can be exploited to design novel bioactive complexes, which may

Social distancing policies and other restrictive measures have demonstrated efficacy in curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, these interventions have concurrently led to short- and long-term alterations in social connectedness

CONCLUSIONS: Globally, the asthma incidence has increased since 1990. The greatest asthma burden is borne by the low-middle SDI region. The 2 groups that need special attention are those under 9 years old and those over 60 years old. Targeted

CONCLUSIONS: These data provide US general adult population reference value set for FACT-L. While some of the subscale results were lower than those found in the reference data for other PROMs, these data were obtained in a more contemporaneous time

Gross hematuria after upper respiratory tract infections is a well-known characteristic symptom of immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN). In recent years, there have been several reports of existing or newly diagnosed patients with IgAN susceptible to

CONCLUSIONS: We provided the first meta-analytic estimated prevalence of self-harm based on a large sample from different countries and populations. The prevalence of self-harm during COVID-19 was not encouraging and requires attention and

Modeling the global dynamics of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) like COVID-19 can provide important guidance in the preparation and mitigation of pandemic threats. While age-structured transmission models are widely used to simulate the evolution