Practicing Medicine in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Doctors Adapt, Improvise
Experiences during the COVID-19 crisis could speed changes in healthcare delivery.
Experiences during the COVID-19 crisis could speed changes in healthcare delivery.
The rapid spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID- 19) caught the world by surprise. Whatever becomes the new normal, the United States will be a different country from what it was on March 13, when President Donald J. Trump declared a national emergency. At this writing on May 28, more than 100,000 people in the…
Urologists will be facing a tremendous backlog due to the COVID-19 quarantine.
Most programs put live-donor transplants on hold.
Testosterone levels among adolescents and young men in the United States declined significantly from 1999 to 2016, and data suggest the trend is related to increases in body mass index, a study found.
Separate studies demonstrated that partial nephrectomy could be an acceptable alternative to radical nephrectomy in selected cases of high-risk kidney cancer and large renal masses.
Three studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine on May found no evidence that the use of ACE inhibitors or angiotensin-receptor blockers increase the likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 infection or worsen COVID-19 disease course.
Elevated serum uric acid (SUA) levels are associated with development of hypertension and vascular and renal target organ damage, according to a new long-term study. Investigators studied 961 parents and 570 children who were initially healthy at the time of recruitment into the STANISLAS cohort, a single-center familial longitudinal cohort that began recruiting patients in…