Tag: COVID-19

A new lightweight three-branch neural network called FLIFuse classifies bacterial pneumonia, viral pneumonia, and normal chest X-rays with 91.4 percent ...

A Bayesian back-calculation study estimates that Japan's HIV effective reproduction number has stayed below 1 since around 2008, though recent ...

A competing-risk model developed in a 4,966-patient Chinese ICU cohort predicts viral pneumonia-associated pulmonary aspergillosis more accurately than standard Cox ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis confirms that hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine, ivermectin, azithromycin and doxycycline lack clinically meaningful efficacy against COVID-19, and ...

A serosurvey of 20,748 people in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Nigeria found SARS-CoV-2 IgG seropositivity ranging from 24.1 to 76.4 ...

A study in BMC Infectious Diseases reports that periodontal inflammation is associated with elevated activity of phosphatidylserine-dependent, TIM-mediated entry pathways ...

Eleven new studies on ANCA-associated vasculitis reveal transient pandemic-era incidence shifts, qualitative B-cell immune signatures, checkpoint biomarkers predicting rituximab failure, ...

A lightweight CNN combining directional texture information with original CT images improved COVID-19 infection segmentation in a computational study of ...

A cross-sectional study of Chinese patients with inflammatory bowel disease found lower quality-of-life scores among the 15 participants with long ...

An Oncotarget commentary calls for consistent evidentiary standards when evaluating possible associations among COVID-19 infection, vaccination and cancer but does ...

An Arriaga decomposition of WHO mortality data links Singapore residents’ 2004–2022 longevity gains chiefly to reduced deaths from cardiovascular disease, ...

A randomized experiment of 1,593 participants found that leadership signals most strongly predicted government trust, with trust associated most strongly ...

A new method called ReadsRatio estimates tissue contributions to circulating cell-free DNA from unmethylated read ratios in cell type-specific marker ...

A community case study documents how a small family health center in post-conflict Jaffna, Sri Lanka, evolved between 2012 and ...

An exploratory analysis of a phase 3 COVID-19 trial found that a composite score combining baseline interleukin-6 levels and neutrophil ...

A mixed-methods systematic review of thirteen studies finds that infection prevention and control practices among operating room teams are shaped ...

A ten-year retrospective study from a single hospital in Hangzhou, China, has documented how the epidemiology of rotavirus infection in ...

A national analysis of more than 330,000 hospitalizations finds that while admission rates fluctuated between 2017 and 2022, in-hospital mortality, ...

A prospective cohort of 1,454 Japanese healthcare workers in the 2024/2025 season found influenza was associated with more severe and ...

Among 414 nurses deployed from Fujian to Hubei during the early COVID-19 response, sleep-quality and sleepiness questionnaires flagged only partly ...