Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) are at higher risk of getting severe COVID-19 infection.This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to determine the role of serum ferritin in predicting ICU admission and mortality among patients with SCD following COVID-19 infection.A systematic search was conducted in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Emb

ABSTRACT Objective: to investigate the association between clinical progression and the quality and duration of sleep in women with breast cancer.Method: longitudinal study, with 114 participants, conducted in a hospital in Brazil.The instruments used were: questionnaire for sociodemographic and clinical characterization, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality I

Abstract Human monkeypox (MPOX) which recently hit the headlines is a rare, emerging zoonotic disease, only next to smallpox yet never attended adequately to halt the epidemic outbreak threat.MPOX Glycerol Moisture Conditioner is caused by Orthopox virus, which is a double-stranded, linear DNA virus, transmitted from infected animals, commonly rode

Urine concentrations of neopterin, a marker for the activation of cellular immunity, were determined concomitantly with a large panel of hematological and immunological variables on 24 women with gynaecological cancers (12 uterine cervix, 5 endometrium, 7 ovary).There were 14 women investigated at first diagnosis of carcinoma, and 10 women were stu

An illustrated Byzantine manuscript of the Cynegetica by Pseudo-Oppian, housed in the Biblioteca Marciana of Venice, has deserved the attention of scholarship because it contains a vast collection of zoological, mythological and hunting images that could be traced back to an original Roman model.However, a careful examination of some of its miniatu