Unintended Consequences of Coronavirus Disease-2019: Remember General Pediatrics

Unintended consequences of the Flexner report: women in pediatrics.

MPH,b Jeffrey P. Brosco, MD, PhD,c and Arleen M. Tuchman, PhDd aDepartment of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee; Departments of bPediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California; cDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Miami, Miami, Florida; and dDepartment of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, T...

Obesity and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection that was first reported on December 31, 2019 in China . This disease behaves variously: from asymptomatic infection to influenza-like symptoms and severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) . In the recent months, COVID-19 has infected millions and killed hundre...

A Review of Pharmacotherapy for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

The epidemic of COVID-19 and its associated acute respiratory syndrome has posed an unprecedented challenge in identifying effective drugs to prevent and treat it. Due to the high prevalence of this disease and the high number of people at risk, medical staff needs accurate evidence regarding effective drug treatments for this infection. There is currently no effective treatment for COVID-19. B...

A Review of Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19)

There is a new public health crises threatening the world with the emergence and spread of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The virus originated in bats and was transmitted to humans through yet unknown intermediary animals in Wuhan, China in December 2019. The virus spreads faster than its two ancestors the SARS-CoV and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), but has lower ...

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