The global pandemic caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has affected a substantial number of pregnant women.1 Although neonates have been reported to be positive for the virus infection, there is paucity data on outcome and mode transmission. predominant transmission SARS-CoV-2 aerosol or direct contact.2, 3 Evidence suggests that respiratory viruses are not c...

Background: This study is being conducted to find out whether coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) associated with an increased incidence of MSAF in COVID-positive pregnant women. Finding implications for operative delivery and perinatal outcome. The evidence will help managing women pregnancy. Methods: prospective observational was from July 1, 2020 October 20, at Rajarajeswari Medical College ...

Andrea Ronchi, MD; Carlo Pietrasanta, Maurizio Zavattoni, Martina Saruggia, Federico Schena, Maria Teresa Sinelli, Massimo Agosti, Chryssoula Tzialla, Felicia Filomena Varsalone, Lea Testa, Claudia Ballerini, Stefania Ferrari, Giovanna Mangili, Luisa Ventura, Simona Perniciaro, Elena Spada, PhD; Lunghi, Antonio Piralla, Fausto Baldanti, Fabio Mosca, Lorenza Pugni, MD

This special issue brings together a collection of papers examining the legal dimensions housing precarity. While we originally imagined focused on homelessness and human rights, agree with our contributors that precarity sits along disparate spectrum, at one end. People weave in out living situations, whether shelters, apartments, rooming houses, encampments. Human their violation, are engaged...

Ten percent of teenagers become ineligible for their families’ health insurance coverage on their nineteenth birthdays. Due to the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, however, they do not lose access to free emergency room (ER) care. Working from a simple theoretical framework, I exploit the discontinuity in health coverage at age nineteen to assess the effect of partial i...

Data and financial models based on an operational health information exchange suggest that health care delivery costs can be reduced by making clinical data available at the time of care in urban emergency departments. Reductions are the result of decreases in laboratory and radiographic tests, fewer admissions for observation, and lower overall emergency department costs. The likelihood of red...

INTRODUCTION Traumatic brain injury continues to pose a serious health care challenge throughout the world. In the United states, trauma is the leading cause of death in individuals under 45 years of age and is a major cause of death and disability in order age groups as well. Brain injury result in more trauma deaths than do injuries to any other specific body region. Half of the 150,000 injur...