by American College of Surgeons Operations for diverticulitis decreased in 2020, but severity of disease increased. Credit: American College of Surgeons The first year of the COVID pandemic significantly altered how patients and providers treated diverticulitis, causing a significant drop in operations to manage the disease but a corresponding increase in the proportion of more...
by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology From left: Sharif M. Hala, Sara Mfarrej, Professor Arnab Pain, Muhammad Shuaib and Tobias Mourier (not pictured) studied the N protein of SARS-CoV-2 to further understanding of its role in disease severity. Credit: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology A multicenter collaboration tracking the spread and...
by Public Library of Science Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Observational studies have suggested that increased vitamin D levels may protect against COVID-19. However, these studies were inconclusive and possibly subject to confounding. A study published in PLOS Medicine by Guillaume Butler-Laporte and Tomoko Nakanishi at McGill University in Quebec, Canada, and colleagues suggests that genetic evidence does not...
