BACKGROUND:Limited data is available about the etiology of influenza like illnesses (ILIs) in Qatar. OBJECTIVES:This study aimed at providing preliminary estimates of influenza and other respiratory infections circulating among adults in Qatar.…
Este é simultaneamente um tempo de combate e um tempo de preparação do pós-guerra. Estamos a defrontar um inimigo invisível e insidioso com um enorme potencial de destruição de saúde das populações e da economia dos Países, que coloca tremendos…
The genus Coronavirus contains about 25 species of coronaviruses (CoVs), which are important pathogens causing highly prevalent diseases and often severe or fatal in humans and animals. No licensed specific drugs are available to prevent their…
After long arguments between positivism and falsificationism, the verification of universal hypotheses was replaced with the confirmation of uncertain major premises. Unfortunately, Hemple proposed the Raven Paradox. Then, Carnap used the increment…
Over the past few years there has been a large rise in the field of robotics. Robots are being in used in many industries, but there has not been a large surge of robots in the medical field, especially the robots for healthcare use. However, as the…
In 2020, the coronavirus crisis ruptured societies and their everyday life around the globe. This article is a contribution to critically theorising the changes societies have undergone in the light of the coronavirus crisis. It asks: How have…
Currently, the detection and identification of viruses that cause respiratory and influenza-like illness (ILI) is one of the main tasks of public healthcare. In 2016-2017, nasopharyngeal swabs were collected from 200 sick children with ILI aged 0…
This study used the Strengths (S), Weaknesses (W), Opportunities (O) and Threats (T) (SWOT) analysis method, drawing on our experience of the response to the 2003 SARS epidemic, the 2019 China Health Statistics Yearbook data, and changes in…
As healthcare turns its focus to preventative community-based interventions, there is increasing interest in using in-home technology to support this goal. This study evaluates the design and use of socially assistive robots (SARs) and sensors as…