optic neuritis [25], uveitis [26] and orbital cellulitis [27], infectious disease would feature more prominently as a cause of the global visual burden. Progress has been achieved across multiple domains
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Despite the implementation of UHC in Indonesia, there is a high incidence of catastrophic total costs due to TB, particularly among patients who live in poor households and those who lose their jobs due to TB. In general, the greatest contribution to total costs was made by travel and food/...
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has shown great efficacy in viral suppression, immune function recovery and HIV/AIDS-related mortality reduction, transforming AIDS from a fatal disease into a manageable chronic disease [2]. With the extension of life expectancy for people living with HIV (PLWH), ...
SARS-CoV-2 positivity rate for Latinos in the Baltimore-Washington, DC region. JAMA. 2020;324(4):392-395. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.11374ArticlePubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 35. Stokes EK, Zambrano LD, Anderson KN, et al. Coronavirus disease 2019 case surveillance—United States, ...
1,2Of course, it took 3 more centuries for Koch to describe the germ theory for disease. It has taken an additional century for the medical importance of biofilms to be recognized despite its estimated involvement in more than 80% of bacterial infections.6,7 Most of what we know about ...
Target-based drug discovery has not been as successful as was hoped, in part owing to the complexities of biological systems and disease pathophysiology. This Review explores experimental strategies for the retrospective identification of molecular targets that underlie phenotypic drug effects (target decon...
Indirect impacts include the debilitating effects on those living with disease, such as farmers who are less able to work and thus produce the crops needed to feed themselves and their families, and impoverished consumers who are less able to pay for the food they need. It is fitting that Gu...
The particular components expressed in response to a given disease process more than likely reflects the specific cytokines induced by the disease. Endogenous cryogens Hippocrates maintained that "Heat is the immortal substance of life endowed with intelligence. . . . However, heat must also be ...
and health worker training until 7 months later. By 2018, the CDC reported more than 4800 pregnancies in which mothers tested positive for Zika virus disease; 1450 infants from these pregnancies were examined at age 1 year or older, and 14% had health effects likely due to exposure to the ...