In type 2 diabetes, hyperglycemia is present when an increased demand for insulin,
typically due to insulin resistance, is not met as a result of progressive pancreatic beta cell …

2020 will go down in history as the year when the global community was awakened to the
fragility of human health and the interdependence of the ecosystem, economy, and humanity. …

Re-emergence of chikungunya virus, a mosquito-transmitted pathogen, is of serious public
health concern. In the past 15 years, after decades of infrequent, sporadic outbreaks, the …

BACKGROUND Residual neuromuscular block (rNMB) after surgery is not difficult to identify
if proper neuromuscular monitoring is used, but many clinicians do not use quantitative …

Objective To compare partial and excisional biopsy techniques in the accuracy of histopathologic
diagnosis and microstaging of cutaneous melanoma. Design Prospective case series. …

In Papua New Guinea (PNG), the most common cause of death among children under 5
years of age is pneumonia. Children with severe pneumonia need antibiotics and oxygen but …

Molecular alterations involving the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway (including mutation, copy
number, protein, or RNA) were examined across 11,219 human cancers representing 32 major …

… Freshwater crabs are also hosts to the developing larvae of biting blackflies (Simulium
spp.) that are the vectors of the parasite Onchocerca volvulus, the cause of hundreds of …

Although mycosis fungoides (MF) is typically an indolent disease, patients with advanced-stage
disease (stages IIB-IVB), including Sézary syndrome (SS), often have a poor outcome. A …

We assessed 5 EBV specific assays for their capacity to effect serologic diagnosis of suspected
NPC. The assays were the immunofluorescent assays, VCA IgA and EA IgA, the enzyme‐…