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Medicines, Volume 8, Issue 9

2021 September - 9 articles

Cover Story: The measures taken to limit COVID-19 spread include physical distancing, increased washing and sanitizing, economic shutdown and face masks. Such measures could impact public health by reducing allergies, infectious and noncommunicable diseases. Although these positive impacts represent “side effects” of the measures, they are worth describing in order to use the related conclusions toward improving various aspects of public healthcare. View this paper
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Articles (9)

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,539 Views
7 Pages

Advances in the Treatment of Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Safety and Efficiency of Transnasal Endoscopy

  • Hiroyuki Abe,
  • Kenya Kamimura,
  • Yoshihisa Arao,
  • Junji Kohisa and
  • Shuji Terai

14 September 2021

Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) is a common disorder and a gastroenterological emergency. With the development of new techniques and devices, the survivability after gastrointestinal bleeding is improving. However, at the same time, we a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Perspective of Metabolism: Potential Therapeutic Targets of Metabolic Diseases such as Obesity-Associated Diabetes, Atherosclerosis and Fatty Liver)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,885 Views
5 Pages

14 September 2021

While great strides have been made in science and medicine ensuring better living standards and health care for most human beings, many issues still remain, which are responsible for an increase in mortality and morbidity rates of millions of people...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,856 Views
11 Pages

4 September 2021

Introduction: The early detection of frailty, a frequent transient state that can be reversible in the elderly and is responsible for significant morbidity and mortality, helps prevent complications from it. Objective: To evaluate the performance of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frailty Syndrome in the Elderly: A Real Challenge for Our Society)
  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,543 Views
8 Pages

3 September 2021

Introduction: Frailty scales are used very rarely by general practitioners as they are time consuming and are not well-adapted to current needs. Thus, we have designed with general practitioners a new scale for the early and rapid detection of frailt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,169 Views
8 Pages

Incidence of Screw Loosening in Cortical Bone Trajectory Fixation Technique between Single- and Dual-Threaded Screws

  • Chao-Hsuan Chen,
  • Chih-Hsiu Tu,
  • Der-Cherng Chen,
  • Hsiang-Ming Huang and ,
  • Hao-Yu Chuang,
  • Der-Yang Cho,
  • Da-Tian Bau and
  • Han-Chung Lee
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

2 September 2021

Purpose: This study aims to elucidate the radiological outcome after Cortical bone trajectory (CBT) screw fixation and whether dual-threaded (DT) screws should be used in the fusion surgery. Methods: 159 patients with degenerative lumbar disorder who...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue PROTAC—From Bench to Bed)
  • Opinion
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,040 Views
4 Pages

2 September 2021

The ongoing 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis has led governments to impose measures including mask wearing, physical distancing, and increased hygiene and disinfection, combined with home confinement and economic shutdown. Such measures hav...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19-Associated Diseases: The Uncertainty of Diagnosis and Treatment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,850 Views
16 Pages

1 September 2021

Background: The 24-hour (24-h) creatinine clearance (CrCl) is the most common method for measuring GFR in clinical laboratories. However, the limitations of CrCl have resulted in the widespread acceptance of mathematically derived estimated glomerula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
26,015 Views
12 Pages

Muscle fatigue and cognitive disturbances persist in patients after recovery from acute COVID-19 disease. However, there are no specific treatments for post-COVID fatigue. Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of the health supplements Immun...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19-Associated Diseases: The Uncertainty of Diagnosis and Treatment)
  • Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
43,451 Views
12 Pages

The Effective Strategies to Avoid Medication Errors and Improving Reporting Systems

  • Abbas Al Mutair,
  • Saad Alhumaid,
  • Abbas Shamsan,
  • Abdul Rehman Zia Zaidi and ,
  • Mohammed Al Mohaini,
  • Alya Al Mutairi,
  • Ali A. Rabaan,
  • Mansour Awad and
  • Awad Al-Omari
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Background: Population-based studies from several countries have constantly shown excessively high rates of medication errors and avoidable deaths. An efficient medication error reporting system is the backbone of reliable practice and a measure of p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue PROTAC—From Bench to Bed)
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