Data Empowerment of Decision-Makers in an Era of a Pandemic: Intersection of "Classic" and Artificial Intelligence in the Service of Medicine.

Background: The COVID-19 outbreak required prompt action by health authorities around the world in response to a novel threat. With enormous amounts of information originating in sources with uncertain degree of validation and accuracy, it is essential to provide executive-level decision-makers with the most actionable, pertinent, and updated data analysis to enable them to adapt their strategy swiftly and competently.

Objective: We report here the origination of a COVID-19 dedicated response in the Israel Defense Forces with the assembly of an operational Data Center for the Campaign against Coronavirus.

Correlation between serotonin uptake in human blood platelets with the 44-bp polymorphism and the 17-bp variable number of tandem repeat of the serotonin transporter.

Dysfunctions of the central serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) system seem to be associated with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia or depression. Previous studies suggested that a 44-bp insertion/deletion polymorphism of the 5-HT transporter (5-HTT) promoter region might influence the transcriptional activity of the 5-HTT gene, and the insertion variant resulted in increased 5-HTT expression and 5-HT uptake. Moreover, a 17-bp variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) polymorphism of the second intron may act as a transcriptional regulator with allele dependent differential enhancer-like properties.

[Enteral feeding following resection of the colon].

14 male patients with cancer of the colon were enterally fed for 2 days preoperatively, on the day of the operation and 5 days postoperatively with a high-caloric oligopeptide diet without the additional enteral administration of calories. All the anastomoses (5 rectal and 5 sigmoid colon resections as well as 4 hemicolectomies ) healed without problems; no complications occurred . The nutrition was well tolerated without exception and the jejunal tube tolerated without discomfort.