COVID-19 and Pregnancy.

It is of greatest concern how COVID-19 is affecting pregnancy, mothers, and babies. Scientists are studying the impact of COVID-19 on pregnant women and babies and are understanding a little more every day. Reports show that there is an increased risk in pregnant women compared to nonpregnant women to get more serious illness due to COVID-19.

Culture-Negative Emphysematous Pyelonephritis as a Complication of Uncontrolled Diabetes Mellitus: A Case Report.

Emphysematous pyelonephritis (EPN) is a severe, necrotizing infection of the renal parenchyma. It is commonly found as a complication of uncontrolled diabetes mellitus (DM). EPN has a terrible prognosis unless promptly identified and treated.

Challenges in Providing Reproductive and Gynecologic Care to Women With Intellectual Disabilities: A Review of Existing Literature.

Our review aims to focus on identifying challenges faced by intellectually disabled women (IDW) in receiving gynecological and reproductive care and also highlights evidence based strategies to overcome those challenges. We conducted a literature review discussing challenges faced by IDW in obtaining healthcare services by thorough search on various electronic databases (PubMed, Google Scholar, and Scopus) starting from 2000 to 28 August 2021 excluding all non-english articles, reviews, editorials and letters to editor. The keywords used for search were "reproductive care", "gynecologic care", "intellectual disability", "mental handicap", and "mental retardation".

Behavioral Problems in Fragile X Syndrome: A Review of Clinical Management.

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is noted to be the leading cause of inherited intellectual disabilities and is caused by expansive cytosine-guanine-guanine (CGG) trinucleotide repeats in the fragile X mental retardation 1 gene (FMR1). FXS can display a wide range of behavioral problems in addition to intellectual and developmental issues. Management of these problems includes both pharmacological and non-pharmacological options and research on these different management styles has been extensive in recent years.