AbstractAIMS: Aims: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused not only global pandemic, but it also pointed at unprepared health care systems and countermeasures were introduced under the pressure of urgent circumstances. This review is focused on discussion critical evaluation instrumental tools for COVID-19 diagnosis that developed in last months. METHODS: Survey actual literature scient...

background: nonspecific symptoms are common in all areas of medicine. patients and caregivers can be frustrated when an illness cannot be reduced to a discrete pathophysiological process that corresponds with the symptoms. we therefore asked the following questions: 1) which demographic factors and psychological comorbidities are associated with change from an initial diagnosis of nonspecific a...

BACKGROUND The DSM-5 has been under revision since 1999 and is scheduled for publication in 2013. This article will review the major proposed modifications of the Paraphilias. METHOD The information reviewed was obtained from PubMed, PsychInfo, the DSM-5.org website and other sources and reviewed. RESULTS Pedohebephilia, Hypersexual Disorder and Paraphilic Coercive Disorder are new proposed...

kidney complaints, &c., &c., are adopted as means of analysis, the particular diseases distinguished by this method being succinctly described. A method of this kind is necessarily in the present state of pathology somewhat confused and imperfect, but the author of these tables deserves credit for the ingenuity with which he has carried out the analysis. In drawing up the work the author had th...