Is physical activity a necessary element during Italian coronavirus disease emergency? Yes or no debate

Genetically Modified Food: Yes or No?

radical iort, yes or no?

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Vitamin D and Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19); Is Deficiency and Maintenance Supplementation Therapy Necessary?

Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin with a well-known general metabolism and actions in bone structure and immune system regulation. Vitamin D exhibits direct antimicrobial activities against a spectrum of microbes, including Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, enveloped and non-enveloped viruses, as well as fungi. An observational study showed that concentrations of 38 ng/ml or more were ...

Pheochromocytoma: yes or no?

A 76-year-old woman was admitted for cardiac decompensation, hypertension, and renal failure. To explore her chronic hypertension, urinary fractionated metanephrines were quantified. Fig. 1A shows the chromatogram of the patient’s urine, and Fig. 1B shows the chromatogram of a calibration standard. A very large methoxytyramine peak was observed (Fig. 1A, black arrow). The peak signal was satura...

Cognitive impairment: yes or no?

value cannot rule out the possibility that some area in the brain may be hypoxic or ischemic. We agree that this is a major limitation of the method. However, the same triticism could be brought against the measurement of cerebral oxygenation by methods that monitor a very limited cerebrd area, such as near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) or direct cerebral oxygen measurement with intracerebra1 pr...