Apr 16th, 2021 - Sexual agreements are an important element of HIV prevention for many partnered gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM). This study describes sexual agreement and sexual behavior changes during the 2020 pandemic among a sample of 215 coupled US GBMSM. Overall, reported behavior shifted towards monogamy. Fifteen percent of respondents developed/ended/changed their agreement du...

Apr 16th, 2021 - Post COVID-19 Arterial Thromboembolism: A Clear and Present Danger.|2021|Fan BE,Cheung C,|

Apr 16th, 2021 - Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by asymptomatic individuals and by blood transfusion are important issues to understand in order to control the viral spread. In this work, we estimated the current SARS-CoV-2 infection rate in blood donors from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Saliva and blood samples were collected from 4103 blood donors from June 15 to September 30, 2020. Saliva samples were tested by real-...

Apr 16th, 2021 - This study was conducted to develop and evaluate a theoretical model to explain the relationships among participation in individual and social activities, compliance with prevention guidelines, and the perception of fatalism and fear of COVID-19. Cross-sectional survey of 1,067 participants who were >18 years of age living in different provinces of Turkey recruited between August 15, 2020 and O...

Apr 16th, 2021 - We conducted a multicenter, retrospective, observational, US-based study of COVID-19 patients undergoing hs-cTnT. Outcomes included short-term mortality (in-hospital and 30-days post-discharge) and a composite of major adverse events including respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation, cardiac arrest, and shock within the index presentation and/or mortality during the index hospitali...

Apr 16th, 2021 - This study aims to evaluate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions on patients who underwent cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) for ovarian cancer. We retrospectively evaluated ovarian cancer patients who underwent HIPEC following complete cytoreductive surgery performed during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in three differen...

Apr 16th, 2021 - Pediatric Vaccination During the COVID-19 Pandemic.|2021|Ackerson BK,Sy LS,Glenn S,Qian L,Park CH,|

Apr 16th, 2021 - The current revival of the American economy is being predicated on social distancing, specifically the Six-Foot Rule, a guideline that offers little protection from pathogen-bearing aerosol droplets sufficiently small to be continuously mixed through an indoor space. The importance of airborne transmission of COVID-19 is now widely recognized. While tools for risk assessment have recently been ...

Apr 16th, 2021 - COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Epidemic Keratoconjunctivitis.|2021|Khavandi S,Tabibzadeh E,Khavandi S,|

Apr 16th, 2021 - Social media use by patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and their respective providers continues to increase, promoting disease awareness and scholarship. In this review article, we summarize the current literature regarding social media use and IBD, discuss both the patient and physician perspective, and provide guidance to avoid commonly encountered pitfalls. Patients and providers...

Apr 16th, 2021 - This review aims to summarize the current evidence regarding the risks and implications of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and discuss optimal management of IBD during this pandemic. Patients with IBD are not at increased risk of COVID-19 but several risk factors for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 infection) have...

Apr 16th, 2021 - "I had to be with bodyguards with guns"-attacks on scientists during the pandemic.|2021|Makri A,|

Apr 16th, 2021 - The lockdown response to the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted commercial gambling in many jurisdictions around the world. The goal of this review is to systematically identify and describe the survey data and findings to date examining the effect on individual gambling and gambling disorder. Of the 17 publications meeting inclusion criteria, the majority was cross-sectional assessme...

Apr 16th, 2021 - The current article reviews the impact of the biggest health crisis for many decades, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), on opioid treatment programs and the strategies adopted for maintaining opioid treatment programs during the pandemic. The difficulty of access to opioid treatment services and the mental health problems accompanying opioid use disorders are the two main challenges to maint...

Apr 16th, 2021 - The purpose of this review is to outline the relationship between cardiovascular disease (CVD) and depression, both as a cause of and a result of CVD. The prevalence of depression seems to be increasing in the general population.It is likely that depression will be even more of a problem for CVD patients in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era.New studies confirm the independent association of depres...

Apr 16th, 2021 - Hybrid professionalism is one of the most effective ways to involve clinicians in management practices and responsibilities. With this study we investigated the perceptions of doctors and nurses on hybridization in clinical directorates (CDs) in hospitals. We investigated the attitudes of healthcare professionals (doctors and nurses) towards eight hospital CDs in the Local Health Authority (LHA...

Apr 16th, 2021 - Covid-19 vaccination in healthcare workers: an early real-world experience.|2021|Jameson A,Sebastian T,Jacques L,|

Apr 16th, 2021 - Pandemic stewardship: reflecting on new roles and contributions of antimicrobial stewardship programs during COVID-19.|2021|Nori P,Patel PK,Stevens MP,|

Apr 16th, 2021 - The quinolinic ring, present in several molecules, has a great diversity of biological activities. Therefore, this ring is in the structure composition of several candidates of drugs in preclinical and clinical studies, thus, it is necessary the grouping of these results to facilitate the design of new drugs. For this reason, some of the activities were selected for this review, such as: antima...

Apr 16th, 2021 - The primary objective of the study is to describe the cellular characteristics of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) of COVID-19 patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation; the secondary outcome is to describe BALF findings between survivors vs non-survivors. Patients positive for SARS-CoV-2 RT PCR, admitted to ICU between March and April 2020 were enrolled. At ICU admission, BALF were...