The novel Covid-19 pandemic marked our lives in an indelible way. It affected negatively the educational training for all students worldwide; with significant modification within hospitals, especially postgraduate (PG) training experience in many ways. We conducted an online survey among currently pursuing PG students of all departments working in HBTMC & Dr. R. N. Cooper Hospital, Mumbai to find out the impact of COVID-19 on PG teaching and learning. Difficulties and problems faced by them duri...

To study the joint management of paediatric trauma by adult and paediatric surgeons, in an adult trauma system with an embedded paediatric component. We looked at the trauma registry data from January 2019 to June 2020 at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in Ajman, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The medical records, radiology findings and post discharge outpatients visits records were studied. We had total of 137 paediatric trauma patients (excluding burns). These ages range was between 6 weeks to 16 yea...

Based on the observation that language use can harm health, the paper looks at the public health situation in late 2020 as compared to the situation in spring 2020 - the health situation is mainly defined via A) The weekly deaths 2020; B) The weekly deaths 2020 compared to the 2016-2019 average; C), The death rates measured as weekly z-scores at the national level, and as additional indicators; D) The death rates attributed to COVID-19; E) The intensive care unit days attributed to COVID-19; and...