Pandemic lessons from India

Post-Pandemic Housing Architecture: Lessons from Covid19

Like other crises, the coronavirus epidemic has had a significant impact on our lives. As a result, the built environment has changed in order to adapt to new conditions and needs. Since Covid19 will not be the first and possibly the last epidemic, housing design must also adapt to the new reality. At present, the spatial properties of housing are influenced by strategies of social distance, qu...

Pandemic influenza preparedness planning: lessons from Cambodia.

aCommunicable Disease Policy Research Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Bangkok, Thailand. bDepartment of Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. cSaw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Correspondence to Anthony C Huszar (e-mail: [email protected]) Introduction Experts have estimated that a pandemi...

Some lessons learned from the AIDS pandemic.

How to Minimize the Impact of Pandemic Events: Lessons From the COVID-19 Crisis

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for the current pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This pandemic is characterized by a high variability in death rate (defined as the ratio between the number of deaths and the total number of infected people) across world countries. Several possible explanations have been proposed, but it is not clear whe...

Monitoring of Adrenal Functions Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons From Pediatric Leukemia

Introduction: Glucocorticoids are considered the cornerstone of the induction phase in all treatment protocols of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Among the adverse effects of high-dose glucocorticoid treatment, adrenal insufficiency is secondary to suppression of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. This drawback of exogenous steroid therapy gains a contemporary particular relevan...