Valuing COVID-19 as an opportunity to understand teacher agency

Virtual education contents of medical universities during the COVID-19 outbreak An opportunity to promote universities on the web

COVID-19: A Window of Opportunity for Positive Healthcare Reforms

The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is testing healthcare systems like never before and all efforts are now being put into controlling the COVID-19 crisis. We witness increasing morbidity, delivery systems that sometimes are on the brink of collapse, and some shameless rent seeking. However, besides all the challenges, there are also possibilities t...

Query fever: an opportunity to understand the disease better.

This week’s issue of Eurosurveillance presents two articles on Q fever. A surveillance report about a Q fever outbreak in Cheltenham, United Kingdom (UK), describes the traditional pattern of Q fever epidemiology involving clusters of cases reported around farms with infected animals (sheep, goats) [1]. The second article provides an update on a long-lasting and ongoing Q fever outbreak with a ...

Genes for blood pressure: an opportunity to understand hypertension.

Hypertension (HTN) is quantitatively the major cardiovascular risk factor and responsible for ∼50% of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Blood pressure (BP) is also a classical complex genetic trait with heritability estimates of 30-50%. Although much is known about BP regulation, the intrinsic origin of essential HTN remains obscure although many environmental factors are known. Analyses ...

Quarantine an effective intervention in COVID-19

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