At war or saving lives? On the securitizing semantic repertoires of Covid-19.

This paper offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the ways and extent to which the US president and UK prime minister have securitized the Covid-19 pandemic in their public speeches. This assessment rests on, and illustrates the merits of, both an overdue theoretical consolidation of Securitization Theory's (ST) conceptualization of securitizing language, and a new methodological blueprint for the study of 'securitizing semantic repertoire'. Comparing and contrasting the two leaders' respective securitizing semantic repertoires adopted in the early months of the coronavirus outbreak shows that securitizing language, while very limited, has been more intense in the UK, whose repertoire was structured by a biopolitical imperative to 'save lives' in contrast to the US repertoire centred on the 'war' metaphor.

Usefulness of Time-Point Serum Cortisol and ACTH Measurements for the Adjustment of Glucocorticoid Replacement in Adrenal Insufficiency.

Background: Adjustment of daily hydrocortisone dose on clinical criteria lacks sensitivity for fine tuning. Long term hydrocortisone (HC) over-replacement may lead to increased morbidity and mortality in patients with adrenal insufficiency (AI). Biochemical criteria may help detecting over- or under-replacement but have been poorly evaluated.

Clinical and metabolic features of adult-onset diabetes caused by ABCC8 mutations.

Objective: Gain-of-function ABCC8/sulfonylurea (SU) receptor 1 mutations cause neonatal diabetes mellitus (NDM) or late-onset diabetes in adult relatives. Given the effectiveness of SU treatment in ABCC8-NDM patients, we further characterized late-onset ABCC8-associated diabetes.

Research Design And Methods: Seven adult subjects from three NDM families and one family with type 2 diabetes were studied.

Efficacy of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion in type 2 diabetes mellitus: a survey on a cohort of 102 patients with prolonged follow-up.

Objectives: We evaluated the long-term efficacy of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) for treating type 2 diabetes patients uncontrolled by multiple daily injections.

Research Design And Methods: All 102 type 2 diabetes patients who began insulin pump therapy at Caen University Hospital (Caen, France) between January 1998 and August 2008 were included in a retrospective observational study. Ninety-three percent of the patients were previously treated by insulin with a mean duration of 5.

Clinical relevance of single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography of the neck and thorax in postablation (131)I scintigraphy for thyroid cancer.

Context: In patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma, postablation (131)I scintigraphy aims to detect residual neck disease and distant metastases, usually found in lungs and bones. New hybrid single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT-CT) cameras that permit functional and anatomical image fusion may improve its clinical relevance.

Objective: Our objective was to test the added value of neck and thorax SPECT-spiral CT to whole-body scan (WBS) in postablation (131)I scintigraphy.