Action for Action: Mad COVID-19, Falling Markets and Rising Volatility of SAARC Region

Rising Maternal Mortality in Mumbai Metropolitan Region: Need for Action

Data from the past suggest that maternal deaths mostly occurred due to obstetric complications, like postpartum hemorrhage, sepsis or maternal morbidities, like eclampsia and cardiac diseases. This trend, however, has changed over a period of time in developing countries, like India where increasing number of maternal deaths have been attributed in recent years to preventable infectious causes,...

Winning the COVID-19 War: McKinsey & Company's Proposed Plan for Action at the Local Level

McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, has published a document for local authorities to introduce and explain strategies and actions to combat COVID-19. This document, by evaluating the current situation and considering some degree of contagion for at least 12-18 months, presents three strategies for local authorities to deal effectively with the virus and safeguard the life ...

Identification of Schizophrenia Patients: Immediate Action to Control COVID -19 pandemic in Iran

Action mirroring and action understanding in children

The past decade has experienced an increasing interest in action underestanding and children’s mirroring of others’ behavior. Behavioral investigations have focused on the development and significance of mimicry, goal prediction and imitation. Others have focused on the neural basis of action mirroring, identifying particular electrophysiological markers or related brain regions. A vivid debate...

COVID-19 Treatment Options and Their Mechanism of Action up to Now: An Overview of Clinical Trials

Novel coronavirus causes the outbreak of COVID-19. There is still no verified treatment regimen against this novel virus; however, different drugs and compounds have been tested against it. Ample proposals have led to a good understanding of pathogenesis and drug efficacy against the novel virus disease. Excess systemic inflammation, which is described as cytokine storm, in the severe cases of ...