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Feb 2025 DOI 10.14302/issn.2379-7835.ijn-24-5283
Menon P.Corresponding author
This article has been retracted on 30 August 2025. VIEW THE RETRACTION NOTICE (https://doi.org/10.14302/issn.2379-7835.ijn-25-5842) Objective The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the global research efforts to identify the risk factors which would lead to severe COVID-19 disease. This study aimed to inv…
Feb 2024 DOI 10.14302/issn.2379-7835.ijn-24-4938
Mina SuhCorresponding author
Public health interest in vaccinations and immune protection has increased with the COVID-19 pandemic. Dairy products are an important source of protein and other nutrients, and there are unresolved research questions regarding the potential health impact of dairy products on the enhancement of immu…
Jul 2023 DOI 10.14302/issn.2994-6743.ijstd-23-4641
Virginia C. HughesCorresponding author
Syphilis is caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum and is transmitted from human to human through sexual contact. Congenital syphilis (CS) occurs when the mother transmits the infection to the fetus. Clinical manifestations of CS include anemia, hepatosplenomegaly, blindness, deafness, meningiti…
Nov 2022 DOI 10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-22-4354
Ray MarksCorresponding author
Background Osteoarthritis, the most common joint disease and one affecting a large number of older adults is not always amenable to the use of passive interventions such as surgery or pharmacologic interventions, but even then, to maximize any desirable intervention approaches, a trustworthy and sup…
May 2022 DOI 10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-22-4167
Sabdat Ozichu EkamaCorresponding author
Objectives This study aims to evaluate the challenges of implementing non-pharmaceutical interventions, assess adherence, accessibility to prevention materials and identify requirements for the control of the spread of COVID-19 among individuals living in a slum-setting in Lagos, Nigeria. Methods Th…
Dec 2021 DOI 10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-21-4025
Allen M. QuiritCorresponding author
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect a large swath of the global population. The Philippine records four hundred seventy-four thousand sixty-four (474, 064) confirmed COVID 19 cases since December 31 2020. The COVID 19 pandemic recently highlighted the role of systemic hyperferrite…
Oct 2021 DOI 10.14302/issn.2324-7339.jcrhap-21-3961
Saurabh GangolaCorresponding author
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has severely affected the whole world. It has overshadowed all the developmental activities across different countries. The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected global economy and has threatened health security of people worldwide. This pandemic have affe…
May 2021 DOI 10.14302/issn.2689-4602.jes-21-3837
Jeffrey O. HendersonCorresponding author
The coronavirus infectious disease (20)19 (COVID-19) pandemic is caused by a newly identified virus (2019) SARS-CoV-2, a beta coronavirus that shares similarities with other human-infecting coronaviruses. Genomic analysis suggests that SARS-CoV-2 is closely related to SARS-CoV, a bat-related coronav…
Mar 2021 DOI 10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-21-3756
Moncef BoulilaCorresponding author
In contributing to the initiative to address the COVID-19 pandemic and in order to enhance the knowledge on driving forces shaping the evolution of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (isolated from Tunisian patients), a comparison in relation to other coronaviruses infectin…
Jan 2021 DOI 10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-21-3702
Ray MarksCorresponding author
Background Older adults with hip joint osteoarthritis, a major cause of chronic progressively disabling highly painful functional experiences, may require a surgical joint replacement procedure known as total joint arthroplasty surgery. Objective This review aimed to address the question of whether…
Jan 2021 DOI 10.14302/issn.2470-5020.jnrt-20-3686
Mosab AlguthmiCorresponding author
Background By the start of year 2020, the whole world was attacked by a rapidly spreading epidemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) which later was classified by WHO as Pandemic. some physicians reported multiple neurologica…
Dec 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-20-3670
Ebrima K. CeesayCorresponding author
Purpose This paper assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Education, Staff development and Training in Africa. Online Research Methodology/Approach The data use in this paper was generated from online survey questionnaire, in which the participants were asked about certain questions in which covi…
Dec 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-20-3662
Ray MarksCorresponding author
Background Most current Corona virus or COVID-19 pandemic deaths have been found to occur among populations older than 65 years of age, who often suffer from the presence of an array of chronic diseases that may be related to a co-occurring vitamin D deficiency. Another factor affecting older adults…
Sep 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2693-1176.ijgh-20-3546
Bikash SahCorresponding author
Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has rapidly evolved as a pandemic with a challenge to the entire world for its management. Various modalities of treatment have been tried till date and when all the modalities failed then th…
Aug 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2691-8862.jvat-20-3513
Jainish PatelCorresponding author
This paper explores the trends, issues and challenges confronting the successful vaccine development for the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Right from the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic, no drugs or vaccine has been developed nor approved for treating those down with COVID-19. This yea…
Jul 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-20-3459
Fatih OzcelikCorresponding author
As there is no specific treatment yet, the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic is being carried out with great difficulty today. The use of immune plasma is seen as a promising option since there is expectation that it will reduce mortality, as in influenza pandemics experienced in 1918 and 2009. Ho…
Jun 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-20-3442
Cameron Y. S. LeeCorresponding author
The Covid-19 pandemic has swept rapidly from Wuhan, China to the entire globe in less than six months, infecting over 7 million people and claiming the lives of over 500,000. In the United States, greater than 2 million individuals have become infected and over 110,000 people killed. With no evidenc…
Jun 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-20-3426
Kang ChengCorresponding author
The COVID-19 pandemic has killed more than 400 thousand and infected more than 7 million people in the whole world as of 06/10/2020. Many open systems, such as educations, transportations, entertainments, sports or foods, have been completely or partially locked down in many regions of the world to…
May 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-20-3367
Ravinder YadavCorresponding author
We explore the global evidence of major health crisis potential impacts and the factors influencing the mental health outcomes among the population during the outbreak of COVID-19. Preparation measures for a COVID-19 focus on rapid quarantine of social isolation and economic concerns have risen meta…
Apr 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2692-5257.ijgp-20-3299
Jose Luis TurabianCorresponding author
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is something new that baffles us. The dominant health model and the theory that supported it until before COVID-19 are refuted or invalidated by observing the current tragically situation, which also implies lasting changes in that new medical model.…