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Innovative medical education greatly relies on lifelong learning with universal standards in research, for generating novel knowledge for improvement maximum patient care. The other side of innovative medical education relies on success of development of novel ideas, perspective;skill building, future career objectives. Leaders have curious roles in the research assistant education. In the current century, both technology and education raced forward in many countries. Mobbing and bullying is an important problem in all fields, every sphere of life in workplaces. Unethical behavior must not take place in universities because universities are the centers of learning, and best academic teaching in ethical standards. Bullying may damage every individual in every academic degree and effect academic performance. In this paper I will discuss a mobbing case which is done to a young academician in many years ago, which is not most frequently observed type. However, such bullying behaviors may increase due to COVID-19 pandemic. Because COVID-19 pandemic may cause various problems in social groups difficulties, anxiety, and economic challenges, problems. Nowadays everybody is experiencing worry, uncertainty, anxiety, fear of economic problems, fear of dying. COVID-19 pandemic has created some unexpected problems to everybody however, academic researchers have additional worries and fears such as;the expiration time of chemicals, problems on chemicals are not imported from abroad on time also difficulties of knockout or transgenic experimental animals cannot be imported from abroad on time, and all these problems cause fear of unsuccessful experimental results, spending extra time. All these anxieties may cause arouse increasing unstable friendships and mobbing possibilities. The COVID-19 disease takes our future and experimental plans to waste basket and change everything including friendship.
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COVID-19 pandemic has become a major public health problem affecting the lives of billions of people worldwide. There is an effective vaccine treatment for the coronavirus infection, but self-isolation and self-protection are the important options to stop the spread of the virus. Usage of the surgical and other face masks are must during COVID-19 pandemic and millions of used masks are accumulating as trash in the environment every day worldwide. Face masks are made of plastic materials mainly polypropylene which is categorized as endocrine disruptor affecting both humans and wildlife. Contamination of face masks to soil, oceans, sea and air may have increased the amount of microplastics concentration and these microplastics from the face masks may have various negative effects on the environment. However, what needs to be done to protect the environment and public health is to dispose of these masks in a very convenient way. Therefore, accurate elimination and collection of used face masks from the environment should be considered to protect our world. Nowadays there are different types of vaccines are in the protecting against death, hospitalization and seriousness of the COVID-19 infection but using face masks are simple, seems safe and effective way from protection against the disease. In this review, we aimed to draw attention to the fact that a using a face mask is very important for staying safe, but they may cause environmental pollution and have adverse effects on directly health and environment.
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BACKGROUND AND AIM: World has been dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic since December 2019. Despite vaccination, people are still infected people and died by COVID-19 worldwide. Since elderly population was categorized as risk group, we aim to evaluate serum and blood biomarkers indicating disease severity and mortality in those patients. METHODS: Blood and serum biomarkers of 22 patients (70-90 years old) were investigated and compared between deceased and survived patients. RESULTS: Fibrinogen, d-dimer, C-reactive protein (CRP) levels increased in the deceased patients compared to the survived ones. P and Mg levels increased in the deceased patients, where Ca levels significantly decreased. Glucose, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), alanine transaminase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), troponin, lactate and procalcitonin levels significantly decreased in the deceased patients compared to the survived ones infected by COVID-19. Hematocrit (HCT), hemoglobin (Hb), total Hb, red blood cells (RBC), PDW and ferritin levels decreased in the deceased patients compared to the healthy ones, where red cell distribution width (RDW) and prothrombin time (PT) levels significantly increased in the deceased patients infected by COVID-19. WBC and NEU levels significantly increased in the deceased patients, controversially %NEU, %LYM, MONO, %MONO, EOS, %EOS, %BASO, MPV, PT and INR levels significantly decreased in the deceased patients compared to the survived ones. CONCLUSIONS: Clinical finding of our stud may help clinicians to predict severity and mortality of COVID-19 in the elderly population.
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COVID-19 pandemic has become the major health problem in 2020 worldwide and no treatment or cure has been developed until now, however medical doctors use approved anti-viral drugs alone or in combination to treat patients infected by COVID-19. Thus, the outcome and the information of the applied treatments are changing daily basis. One of the changes in the COVID-19 patients has been depilation of the eyebrow and eyelashes. Biotin is a vital cofactor for biotin-dependent enzymes for fatty acids, amino acids, and glucose metabolism. It is known that, biotin deficiency may cause loss of hair, eyebrows and eyelashes. However, either COVID-19 infection or treatment against to cure this infection cause impairment in the biotin metabolism that should be further investigated to better understand possible mechanisms behind the COVID-19 infection and outcomes of the treatment approach to treat it.