Iranian Society of Pathology

The most commonly prescribed drug for type2 diabetes may be associated with reduced risk for death due to COVID-19. ⁠⠀

Juan Rosai, M.D., d.h.c., died on July 7, 2020 at 79 years old

The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), first appeared in December 2019, in Wuhan, China and evolved into a pandemic. As Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2) is one of the potential target receptors for SARS-CoV-2 in human body, which is expressed in different tissues, multiple organs might become affected. In the initial phase of the current pandemic, a handful of post-mortem case-series revealed COVID-19-related pathological changes in various organs. Although pathological examination is not a feasible method of diagnosis, it can elucidate pathological changes, pathogenesis of the disease, and the cause of death in COVID-19 cases.

To speed up the process, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made a much-criticized move to allow a free-for-all for developers to begin marketing antibody tests that had not gone through the agency's usual evaluation process.

Health officials confronted tough questions and doubts Thursday about testing to intercept the fast-spreading virus, with scrutiny focused on a four-day delay in screening an infected California woman despite her doctors' early calls to do so.

Spread love, not diarrhea. #Giardia is a parasite that causes the diarrheal illness known as giardiasis.

At the Academy Awards in February, some big Hollywood stars are going to receive a novel urine collection device in their Oscars gift bags.⁠

About 20percent of five common cancers are the result of "overdiagnosis," concludes a study from Australia that analyzed over 30 years of national healthcare data. The figures were 18percent for women and 24percent for men.

We sit down with global infectious disease pathologist Ann Nelson to discuss her career and contribution to healthcare in Africa

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