Background Although heart rate and respiratory rate in children are measured routinely in
acute settings, current reference ranges are not based on evidence. We aimed to derive new …

Background Neuraminidase inhibitors (NIs) are stockpiled and recommended by public
health agencies for treating and preventing seasonal and pandemic influenza. They are …

EBV was the first human virus to be directly implicated in carcinogenesis. It infects> 90% of
the world's population. Although most humans coexist with the virus without serious …

Background and Purpose—Acute disruption of atherosclerotic plaques precedes the onset
of clinical syndromes, and studies have implicated a role for matrix metalloproteinases …

Background Meningococcal disease is a rapidly progressive childhood infection of global
importance. To our knowledge, no systematic quantitative research exists into the …

Objectives To describe the association and its magnitude between body mass index
category, sex, and cardiovascular disease risk parameters in school aged children in highly …

Background Lower respiratory infections are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality
around the world. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) Study …

The repair outcomes at site-specific DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) generated by the
RNA-guided DNA endonuclease Cas9 determine how gene function is altered. Despite the …

Background The objective of this paper is to describe the numbers, characteristics, and
trends in the migration to the United States of physicians trained in sub-Saharan Africa …

Recent fire seasons in the western United States are some of the most damaging and costly
on record. Wildfires in the wildland-urban interface on the Colorado Front Range, resulting …