Ludwig's Angina and Treatment Considerations in the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Introduction: Ludwig's angina is a type of severe cellulitis that spreads rapidly and carries a significant risk of airway compromise. Previous complications with COVID-19 are poorly described within the literature.

Case Presentation: This case report describes the complication of COVID-19 infection with suspected Ludwig's angina 2 days after admission, resulting in awake fibroscopic endotracheal intubation.

Metformin-Associated Lactic Acidosis: A Case Report.

Introduction: Metformin is considered a first-line therapy for patients with diabetes secondary to its cost efficiency, minimal side effects, and marked improvement in one's hemoglobin A1c; however, metformin is avoided in patients with renal insufficiency out of concern for drug accumulation and lactic acidosis. In fact, there is a black box warning for metformin, identifying lactic acidosis as the inciting trigger for fatal arrhythmias and death.

Case Presentation: A 62-year-old male presented with multiple episodes of nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and decreased urine output for 3 days after working on a roof, all day in the summer heat.

The Impact of Opioid Prescribing Limits on Drug Usage in South Carolina: A Novel Geospatial and Time Series Data Analysis.

The opioid crisis in the United States has had devastating effects on communities across the country, leading many states to pass legislation that limits the prescription of opioid medications in an effort to reduce the number of overdose deaths. This study investigates the impact of South Carolina's prescription limit law (S.C.

Improving named entity recognition accuracy for gene and protein in biomedical text literature.

The task of recognising biomedical named entities in natural language documents called biomedical Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the focus of many researchers due to complex nature of such texts. This complexity includes the issues of character-level, word-level and word order variations. In this study, an approach for recognising gene and protein names that handles the above issues is proposed.