Outcomes in Pregnant Adolescent Patients Infected With SARS-CoV-2.

Background: Pregnant patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are at risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes. Although clinical outcomes for pregnant adults have been reported, the impact of COVID-19 on adolescents is lacking. We sought to evaluate obstetric outcomes of pregnant adolescents infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and compare them with uninfected adolescent controls.

Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a platform for assessing sphingolipid lipid kinase inhibitors.

Successful medicinal chemistry campaigns to discover and optimize sphingosine kinase inhibitors require a robust assay for screening chemical libraries and for determining rank order potencies. Existing assays for these enzymes are laborious, expensive and/or low throughput. The toxicity of excessive levels of phosphorylated sphingoid bases for the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, affords an assay wherein inhibitors added to the culture media rescue growth in a dose-dependent fashion.

Potential health risks due to telecommunications radiofrequency radiation exposures in Lagos State Nigeria.

Background: The global system mobile telecommunications system (GSM) which was recently introduced in Nigeria is now being used by over 40 million people in Nigeria. The use of GSM is accompanied with exposure of the users to radiofrequency radiation (RFR), which if significant, may produce health hazards. This is the reason why many relevant national and international organizations recommended exposure limits to RFR and why it is made compulsory for GSM handsets to indicate the maximum power output as a guide to potential consumers.

Early detection of infant hearing loss: current experiences of health professionals in a developing country.

Aim And Methods: To investigate the experiences of doctors and nurses in infant hearing loss through an open-ended questionnaire in Lagos, Nigeria.

Results: Few respondents detected children with hearing loss within the first 6 mo of life. Parental concern was the most significant lead for doctors.

Health professionals' readiness for infant hearing screening in Lagos, Nigeria.

The authors set-out to ascertain the readiness of professional healthcare workers in Nigeria for the implementation of the country's new national health policy, which for the first time, seeks to address the impact of infant hearing loss on early childhood development through early detection and timely intervention. A cross-sectional survey of nurses and doctors showed that health professionals had positive attitudes towards early hearing detection but were limited in their knowledge about current possibilities with infant screening. The need for relevant/on-going professional education is indicated to effectively promote hearing screening services in early childhood.